Basket of Kisses

Full review of the Falling Skies Season Finale will be up on Monday, August 15. Sorry for the delay, a two-hour episode came at a really bad time in my schedule.

Sorry for taking a week off from my Falling Skies blogging. Let’s get caught up. Sanctuary Part 2 was a lackluster episode. I don’t think it was chock-full of any exceptionally stupid OMG SCRIPT! moments, but it lacked oomph. It shouldn’t have–there were unexpected deaths, heroic rescues, near misses, daring escapes, yet it all felt [...]

This episode was not what I expected it to be, and this series is not what I expected it to be. Despite one absolutely terrible episode (#3), and one mediocre one (#2), this is turning into something special. And yes, they could still blow it. “They” blew Heroes, didn’t they? But right now, Falling Skies [...]

What a difference a week makes! This week’s episode, while not without its flaws, was some slammin’ good television. I am genuinely glad I gave it that one week ultimatum last week, because wow. Spoilers ahead:

Ugh, this was bad. The two things that stood out as dumbest about last week’s episode were (1) Letting Pope loose to cook, and (2) leaving the Skitter unguarded. So now we have an entire episode premised on maintaining those two stupidities. The constant low-level aggravation of this made the cool things less cool (sleeping [...]

This is working out well! Okay, there are definitely still a couple of stupid and cliché parts, but TV does two things wrong these days: First, it tells you absolutely everything up front, so you don’t have to pay attention (Body of Proof), and second, it tells you absolutely nothing, thinking that leaving you guessing [...]

Well, nothing to watch on Sunday nights right now. I was a fan of V, but wasn’t blogging it, largely because it sucked. I guess that makes me not much of a fan: It had potential, it had Morena Baccarin, and it had a whole lot of stupid. Falling Skies seems a little bit like [...]