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“This is the time for overkill”: Falling Skies goes all out in its new season 5 trailer

Posted on May 31, 2015May 31, 2015 by aussiemoose

  If Earth wasn’t already overcrowded, what with humanity, the “fishhead” Espheni and the Volm all duking it out for control of our pretty blue planet (or what’s left of it anyway), then it’s about to resemble a crowded commuter train at peak hour when a brand new “beautiful” race, the Continue Reading

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New aliens, philosophising and vengeance oh my! Falling Skies season 5 teaser trailer

Posted on May 5, 2015May 5, 2015 by aussiemoose

  “A man walks through his life. He stumbles, and he falls. At times, he thinks he cannot get up, but he does. Over, and over, until one day, when the man cannot hold up the sky falling all around him anymore. Then, he reaches his journey’s end. But there Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: Space Oddity/Shoot the Moon (S4, E1/E12 finale review)

Posted on September 6, 2014December 17, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * THERE BE SPOILERS … AND ESPHENI … AND VOLM … AND ??? AHEAD * Watching the double episode finale of Falling Skies felt, in all the best possible ways, like watching a twisted Hallmark movie of the week where estranged family members finally see eye to eye and Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: Drawing Straws (S4, E10 review)

Posted on August 30, 2014August 31, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * SPOILERS LIE AHEAD … AND BEAMERS … UNLESS LEXI BLOWS THEM FROM THE SKY * Like humans through an Espheni Skitterisation factory … these are The Days of Our Masons … Yes, folks, after dodging the Mason family soap operatic tendencies of Falling Skies for nigh on 10 Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: Till Death Us Do Part (S4, E9 review)

Posted on August 23, 2014August 23, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * Duck! Beamers above you and spoilers ahead of you if you dare* There was a lot of gazing at the moon in this week’s episode of Falling Skies, and in marked contrast to the title which seemed to promise the sort of wholesale death and destruction we’ve become accustomed Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Mind Wars” (S4, E5 review)

Posted on July 26, 2014July 25, 2014 by aussiemoose

  *Watch out! There are Mechs, Beamers, Skitters … and spoilers this way!* Never was an episode more aptly named. If it wasn’t Tom (Noah Wylie) trying to talk his way out of temporary captivity at the hands of collaborationist brothers Nick (Gil Bellows) and Coop (Aaron Douglas) or Anne Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Evolve or Die” (S4, E4 review)

Posted on July 19, 2014July 18, 2014 by aussiemoose

  *There be aliens and spoilers aplenty ahead!*  Falling Skies may have belatedly embraced its inner apocalyptic child this season but that didn’t stop it from coming over all Maria von Trapp (Julie Andrews) this week in 4th episode “Evolve or Die”. Or should that be all Rolfe the messenger Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Exodus” (S4, E3 review)

Posted on July 12, 2014July 12, 2014 by aussiemoose

  There was a touch of the Steve McQueens about Falling Skies this week, even down to the motorcycle that Tom Mason (Noah Wylie), Distractor of Skitters and Rubber Man Who Can Fall From Great Heights and Live, used once again, this time sans the Ghost headdress, to distract the Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “The Eye” (S4, E2 review)

Posted on July 5, 2014July 12, 2014 by aussiemoose

  * Watch out there are spoilers! And aliens … don’t forget the aliens * After re-imagining, re-booting and all but completely re-tooling itself in the season 4 opener “Ghost in the Machine”, Falling Skies went on in episode 2 “The Eye” with all the gritty, dirty (literally in the Continue Reading

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Falling Skies: “Ghost in the Machine” (S4, E1 review)

Posted on June 27, 2014June 27, 2014 by aussiemoose

  BOOM! That shockingly loud sound you hear is TNT’s Falling Skies taking a turn for the darker, tilting, nay falling with breakneck speed towards storylines so gritty and apocalyptic that it finally feels like you are in the midst of a good, honest-to-God, full-blown catastrophic alien invasion. Gone are Continue Reading

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