Falling Skies on TNT, from Steven Spielberg, has come and gone. But in its passing, it definitely left a mark on the TV ratings game.
TNT called the series the “#1 new basic cable series in the United States” as it’s first season finale episode pulled in 5.6 million viewers. It also premiered to some pretty decent numbers, at around 5.9M viewers. Viewers were a curious lot about the show, that’s for sure.
The series stars Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, Will Patton, Drew Roy, Maxim Knight, Connor Jessup, Colin Cunningham, Sarah Sanguin Carter, Seychelle Gabriel, Mpho Koaho and Peter Shinkoda.
“Falling Skies takes place in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. Tom Mason (Wyle), a Boston history professor and the father of three sons, must put his extensive knowledge of military history to the test as second in command of a regiment of resistance fighters protecting a large group of civilian survivors.”
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With the premiere of Falling Skies on TNT, I have to say that the huge build up, even with the last 60-second countdown to the 2-hour premiere, was a pretty impressive marketing campaign. But did it pay off? I think it might have.
I found the 2-hour premiere of Falling Skies a very low-keyed episode that developed the premise of the fact that there was an alien invasion several months ago and that we’re following the rag-tag group of surviving humans as they try to figure out how to defeat the aliens while running from them. If it sounds familiar, well, I’d say it was like Battlestar Galactica… the walking version. I’m hoping it will develop into something as near as good too.
Falling Skies is produced by DreamWorks Television for TNT. It stars Noah Wyle, Moon Bloodgood, the venerable Will Patton and Colin Cunningham amongst other great cast.
The show didn’t suck. That’s for sure, but it felt flat to me. I’m not sure why it did, it just did. I liked the multi-legged aliens but the CGI mechanized two-legged machines, though not bad, was far from perfect.
There was one very interesting clue though that they mentioned in the premiere and that was that if the aliens are six-legged, why did they create two-legged machines?
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