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Falling Skies
5 Seasons
Season 1 Premiere: 2011
68
6.2
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Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
68
70% Positive
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
28% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Metascore
Generally Favorable Based on 43 Critic Reviews
68
70% Positive
30 Reviews
30 Reviews
28% Mixed
12 Reviews
12 Reviews
2% Negative
1 Review
1 Review
Jun 13, 2011
The 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.
Jun 17, 2011
It all adds up to plenty of action and suspense, with heroes we like and villains we can boo and hiss. And the fate of the planet at stake. Who says there ain't no cure for the summertime TV blues?
Jun 17, 2011
Falling Skies is exactly what you'd expect it to be, only a very good example of it (and is at its best in Sunday's pilot), and an ideal summer series. For once, Spielberg and company got it right on the small screen.
Jun 4, 2013
While this sci-fi lark is essentially just another cog in TV’s annual invasion of mindless summer escapism, as we’ve seen time and again, capturing that tone and feel isn’t nearly as easy as it looks--one reason it’s nice to see Wyle and company soldiering on.
Aug 11, 2014
While the sense of escalation is reasonably contagious, the push to the finale would feel better if it were worth investing in any of Skies' army of limp, interchangeable characters.
Jun 18, 2012
Unlike the similarly post-apocalyptic "Walking Dead," there's never much tension on Falling Skies.
Jun 17, 2011
Every 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.
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 658 User Ratings
6.2
58% Positive
380 Ratings
380 Ratings
20% Mixed
131 Ratings
131 Ratings
22% Negative
147 Ratings
147 Ratings
User Score
Generally Favorable Based on 658 User Ratings
6.2
58% Positive
380 Ratings
380 Ratings
20% Mixed
131 Ratings
131 Ratings
22% Negative
147 Ratings
147 Ratings
Jul 2, 2021
I'm ok with suspension of disbelief, but this show treads in stupid territory. The aliens that effortlessly wiped away the strongest armies and the most advanced weapons on Earth, are unable to beat a few hundred survivors with light weapons. Their flying craft apparently have the offensive power of a WWI biplane (they can throw bombs but have a range of 20m or so, allowing a guy manning a twin .50 to take them down). Actually, they can be invincible, wiping out all resistance, or just fumble around and get pwned, depending on what the episode demands, with no coherence whatever. Oh, they also have micro probes that can morph into metallic insects or take control of human hosts, but they don't have radar and apparently cannot track a flying civilian plane.
The protagonist is insufferable. A sanctimonious ex-history professor who proves to be an exceptional soldier, a great leader and even manages to beat up an ex-con who certainly has been through ten times as many fights as him. The other characters are mostly just as cringeworthy.
So, there is no suspense because the enemy will always miss and be taken down by a peashooter when it matters, the characters are unrelatable and annoying... what's left? Exactly: nothing.
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Production Company:
- DreamWorks Television
- TNT Originals
- Invasion Productions
Initial Release Date: 2011
Number of seasons: 5 Seasons
Rating: TV-14
Awards
Academy of Science Fiction, Fantasy & Horror Films, USA
• 14 Nominations
Young Artist Awards
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Visual Effects Society Awards
• 3 Nominations
