FALLING SKIES - BOSTON HERALD: Steven Spielberg’s Hub-set alien thriller blasts off
‘Falling’ rocks!
By Mark A. Perigard
Thursday, June 16, 2011
“FALLING SKIES” Series premiere Sunday at 9p.m.on TNT.
The war is over.
We didn’t have a chance.
From executive producer Steven Spielberg and Cambridge screenwriter Robert Rodat (“Saving Private Ryan”) comes “Falling Skies,” a post-apocalyptic thriller set in the Boston area.
Six months earlier, hideous extraterrestrials invaded and decimated most of the world’s population.
A ragtag group of resistance fighters struggles for survival and searches for a way to take back the planet.
At a time when teachers seem to be under attack in the court of public opinion, “Falling Skies” happens to be the best stealth PR for academics. Hero Tom Mason (Noah Wyle, “ER”) was a Boston University professor of history who specialized in the American Revolution. His knowledge of military tactics just happens to be crucial in the war against the “Skitters” — so named for their insectlike limbs and reptilian skins. (The prosthetics work is creatively disturbing...)
... TNT sent the two-hour pilot and two regular one-hour episodes. Once I started watching, I couldn’t stop.
Don’t look now, but “Falling Skies” could be a summer obsession.
Falling Skies premieres Sunday, June 19, 2011 at 9/8C. Cast includes Stargate SG-1's Colin Cunningham, Maxim Knight, Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Mpho Koaho, Sarah Carter, Connor Jessup, Bruce Gray, Dale Dye, Drew Roy, Seychelle Gabriel, Peter Shinkoda, Dylan Authors and James Collins.
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