Falling Skies
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Generally favorable reviews- based on 237 Ratings
- Summary: After an alien invasion that killed most of the human race, a group of soldiers fight back in this sci-fi drama executive-produced by Steven Spielberg.
- Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure, Suspense, Science Fiction
- Show Type: In Season
- Season 1 premiere date: Jun 19, 2011
- Episode Length: 60
- Air Time: 10:00 PM
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Positive: 22 out of 27
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Mixed: 4 out of 27
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Negative: 1 out of 27
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90The entertainment value and suspense of Falling Skies is paced just right. You get the sense that we'll get those answers eventually. And yet, you want to devour the next episode immediately.
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80Falling Skies generates its own excitement, very much worth the ride, like Lost and Jericho, to watch characters develop as they struggle under confusing and life-threatening circumstances.
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50Taken on its own terms, this eight-part series--which begins in the middle, months after aliens have invaded Earth, thus turning a ragtag New England band into modern colonial resistance--has its moments action-wise, but the soapier elements mostly fall flat.
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30Every attempt at treating a Big Idea seems sophomoric and irritating. Even in its look, the show lacks the elemental rawness necessary to throw its intellectual conflicts into sharp relief.
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Positive: 49 out of 103
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Mixed: 11 out of 103
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Negative: 43 out of 103
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