If we didn’t know better, we’d swear the title to this episode was deliberate; a “serious cat is serious,” “redundancy is redundant” take on the show, which is how we felt about a lot of this episode after it was over. We liked the episode as it was...

Fine. We were wrong. We admit it. We thought Charleston was going to be a trap set for the Second Mass by the aliens. Instead it was something we really should have seen coming; a story that practically every post-apocalyptic tale of any worth needs to tell: other humans are the worst enemies...

What an oddly tedious little episode. Granted, with a title like “Death March,” we had no reason to expect it would be a romp, and it’s difficult for writers to depict worn-out, shell-shocked people in a manner that’s going to be exciting or entertaining, but still....

You know what we love about this show, when it’s hitting on all cylinders, as it was last night? When we scream at the characters to do something, they do it. Like last night, when Big Fish Head Overload was taunting Tom in his cell, Lorenzo shouted “JUST SHOOT THE...

We’re past the halfway point of the season and it’s time to assess; especially since this episode provided a perfect example of what’s working and what’s not. Anne and Tom? Totally working. In fact, it’s such a refreshingly low-key and grown-up relationship that...

Previously, on Falling Skies (which we watched last week but when faced with a 5-hour commute to Fire Island the next morning, opted not to recap): Everyone believes that children are our future; teach them well and let them lead the way. Or hook them up to giant metal slugs. Or send them on...

Two things we said in last week’s review: They need to get rid of Psawyer, because it’s ridiculous that they would keep someone like that around. It looked like the Spielberg Schmaltz had been considerably toned down by the time they handed the machine gun to a kid – and he...

The two-hour season premiere of Falling Skies may just be one of the best arguments we’ve encountered for giving a floundering show with a good concept some time to find its footing. The show’s creators have managed to pull off something incredibly rare in television: they turned...

We can’t. No, seriously. We can’t. In fact, we both turned to each other at various points while watching this episode and said with exasperation, “I can’t.” This is almost certainly traceable to our reaction to the finale of The Killing, but it also has to do...

We find ourselves really admiring the creative restraint on this show. In our first post about the show we noted that the premiere, which was essentially 2 episodes, was establishing a mission-per-episode format and we thought that was a fairly good idea. If you look at each episode of Lost,...

With The Killing giving us THE WORST FINALE EVER, and since Project Runway and The A-List: New York, don’t start for another month, we thought we’d devote some time to the latest “aliens among us” series, Falling Skies, from TNT. If you’re like us and you...