Review: 'Falling Skies' Loses Hope In Season Four — forbes.com

Despite whatever flaws it may have been suffering from in the first three seasons, the one thing that always kept TNT’s post-apocalyptic, alien invasion drama, Falling Skies, entertaining was the heavy guiding hand of executive producer Steven Spielberg. No matter how convoluted the plot of the series became, the charm of that spielbergness made the show interesting because everything always came back to the humanity of the Second Mass, something the famed film director knows how to do quite well. Falling Skies has always been about an exploration of the micro-level emotion associated with a macro-level event. But, with new showrunner David Eick at the helm, it seems the TNT drama’s lost the one thing that was keeping it enjoyable, and because of that, the series is not the summer fun it once was in season four.

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