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- TNT
- Jun 17, 2012
- TNT
- Jun 17, 2012
- TNT
- Jun 17, 2012
- TNT
- Jun 17, 2012
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 9 Critic Reviews
64
56% Positive
5 Reviews
5 Reviews
44% Mixed
4 Reviews
4 Reviews
0% Negative
0 Reviews
0 Reviews
Sunday's explosive two-hour opener boldly delivers on the promise by TNT producers to rev up both the pace and the firepower in Season 2.
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 110 User Ratings
7.0
68% Positive
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
19% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
13% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable
Based on 110 User Ratings
7.0
68% Positive
75 Ratings
75 Ratings
19% Mixed
21 Ratings
21 Ratings
13% Negative
14 Ratings
14 Ratings
The season has now ended, and in the end, they haven't really disappointed me. It's been a great TV show, and I just can't wait until Season 3. It looks like new Aliens are here on Earth, and we won't know if they're friend or foe. Finally, Season 3, instead of the regular 10 episodes, will feature 24 episodes happily. It's an awesome series, and I hope the plot intensifies over time. All in all, the last 2 seasons have done some actual good compared to some other ridiculous shows that make no sense.
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SEASON 2
All in all, the new season of Falling Skies gets the basics right.
Those who got on board last year have enough reason to continue flying these not-so-friendly Skies.
It's not deep, meaningful TV, but Falling Skies is OK summer entertainment for fans of breezy, things-blow-up-easy programming.
Falling Skies holds few if any surprises, although its action scenes and impressively designed creatures still have pulling power.
Falling Skies is better than it used to be, but it's still whiffing the allegory, the action, and the characterization: three strikes and you're out.
Falling Skies opening season was a mixed bag. It certainly did a few things right featuring very good special effects for a TV show and containing just enough plot twists to keep things fairly interesting. For everything it did well however it did something else equally as poorly and I found it more difficult to ignore these issues this time around to the extent that I suddenly realised, about midway through this season, that I didn’t particularly care if I continued watching the show or not.
For me the biggest of these issues, caused partly by the often very wooden dialogue, is that the show is rarely, if ever, able to bring any real sense of tension to proceedings. Anyone that has been also been watching shows like Breaking Bad or even Game of Thrones will hopefully understand what I mean as both feature multiple scenes in most episodes were it is just impossible to take your eyes off the screen. For me at least that is just never the case with Falling Skies.
If you are fan of sci-fi, or alien invasion stories in particular, you will likely enjoy Falling Skies (I did at times) but with so many other critically acclaimed shows on my ‘to watch’ list I won’t be sticking with the show any longer.
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SEASON 2
Falling Skies started out as the quintessence of "Aliens invade and all survivors are idiots" and so far it has not improved much. The show is so full of inconsistencies that it hurts and the inconsistencies are actually getting worse. Second season does a lot to improve the flair of the scenery and seems more solid in the props department, but the CGI is still as bad as it was first season. While the acting is still more or less solid and the characters are still nicely cast, the authors still have no clue what to do with them and the character behavior tends to shift between crazed lunacy and lobotomized stupidity. Questions that every half-sane person would scream all over the place by now are simply not asked by the characters, things that anyone with survival instinct would do are not done. The authors simply fail completely to get their own minds into the characters and instead do it the other way around.
Overall, the show has improved in some parts but by such little margin that I am surprised it did not go down the same drain that Terra Nova went.
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SEASON 2
