Tag: Falling Skies Season 2 Premiere
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Falling Skies Recap: “The Price of Greatness”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “The Price of Greatness” Original Air Date (TNT): August 12, 2012 Season 2 Episode 9 Yup, called it right on the money. The Second Mass has made it to Charleston but it’s far from the safe haven they had hoped. Instead, it’s run by a pseudo dictator who, despite his best intentions,…
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Falling Skies Recap: “Death March”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Death March” Original Air Date (TNT): August 5, 2012 Season 2 Episode 8 When thinking about this episode of Falling Skies, the phrase that keeps popping in my head is “the calm before the storm.” The now revealed to be alive Col. Porter says the ruined Charleston is a diversion to protect…
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Falling Skies Recap: “Molon Labe”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Molon Labe” Original Air Date (TNT): July 22, 2012 Season 2 Episode 7 There seems to be a new trend on television these days. It’s something I’ve seen on shows like Teen Wolf, Burn Notice, Sons of Anarchy, Nikita and a host of others including Falling Skies. The trend involves multi-episode…
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Falling Skies Recap: “Homecoming”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Homecoming” Original Air Date (TNT): July 15, 2012 Season 2 Episode 6 One moment please: SEASON 3!! Anyway: It’s been two week’s since the Second Mass took refuge in the abandoned hospital outside Richmond, but those two week’s haven’t come without consequence. As Weaver said, the resistance has become slow,…
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Falling Skies Recap: “Love and Other Acts of Courage”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Love and Other Acts of Courage” Original Air Date (TNT): July 8, 2012 Season 2 Episode 5 Thomas Jefferson once said “The tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants.” Intentional or not, Falling Skies is a true embodiment of the famous…
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Falling Skies Recap: “Young Bloods”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Young Bloods” Original Air Date (TNT): July 1, 2012 Season 2 Episode 4 There’re many marks of a well made television series. One of the most important is whether or not the writers are capable of realizing the potential of a new story line. Plenty of examples exist where story lines that…
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Falling Skies Recap: “Compass”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Compass” Original Air Date (TNT): June 24, 2012 Season 2 Episode 3 – SPOILERS FOR THE WALKING DEAD, SONS OF ANARCHY AND THE AVENGERS AHEAD – When it comes to shows like The Walking Dead, Game of Thrones, Sons of Anarchy and of course Falling Skies, shows built on premises…
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Falling Skies Recap: “World’s Apart”/”Shall We Gather at the River”
by Merrill Barr: Falling Skies Recap: “Worlds Apart”/”Shall We Gather at the River” Original Air Date (TNT): June 19, 2012 Season 2 Episodes 1 & 2 In cable television the scenario often occurs where all the episodes of a season are filmed (and sometimes locked) before any of them air. This ends up creating a vacuum for the writers where…