EPISODE
SEASON
Falling Skies - Season 1
After the earth invasion by aliens, people face many challenges and hardships, as they struggle against that invasion, and they decide to cooperate in order to survive and over some such invasion, so they choose Tom Mason, the history teacher, who leads them, but incidents come to climax, upon kidnapping one of his three children by the aliens, the thing that makes his fear and worry about his son.
1943
30 November 1979, French River, Nova Scotia, Canada
29 September 1999, Atlanta, Georgia, USA
4 March 1969, Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
4 March 1961, Queens, New York City, New York, USA
23 April 1946, Washington, District of Columbia, USA
14 June 1954, Charleston, South Carolina, USA
24 October 1955, Los Angeles, California, USA
30 October 1980, Toronto, Ontario, Canada
June 19, 2011
For once, Spielberg and company got it right on the small screen.
June 19, 2011
Despite the high stakes of the story and the frequent violence, the tone is placid and slightly monotonous, as if we were watching the Walton family at the end of the world.
June 19, 2011
I lost count of the times I paused episodes to try to understand an inexplicable moment or to complain to my couchmate about a predictable development.
June 19, 2011
There's something enjoyably retro about TNT's "Falling Skies," an old-school, B-grade sci-fi invasion series that's more reminiscent of the original 1980's "V" than the recently canceled ABC remake.
June 19, 2011
It has a solid Saturday-matinee tone, as the characters dart through the wrecked streets with dirt on their cheeks and rifles on their shoulders.
August 20, 2013
It at least made me want to know what happens next. If a postapocalypse can't do that, what's a postapocalypse for?
June 19, 2011
Falling Skies' mix of compelling individuals helps to make its early use of formula less troublesome than it might have been.
June 19, 2011
Falling Skies is looking like the season's best popcorn television.
June 19, 2011
In due time, it starts to take hold, telling its timeworn alien invasion tale in ways that might well pull you along.
June 19, 2011
Falling 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.