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Falling Skies
Series · 2011
Falling Skies opens in the chaotic aftermath of an alien attack that has left most of the world completely incapacitated. In the six months since the initial invasion, the few survivors have banded together outside major cities to begin the difficult task of fighting back. Each day is a test of survival as citizen soldiers work to protect the people in their care while also engaging in an insurgency campaign against the occupying alien force.
The sides of Falling Skies
- Survivors after an alien invasion
- A history professor leading a resistance
- A father searching for his son
Falling Skies is good for you if…
- you like a ragged band of survivors fighting an occupying force.
- you like Tom Mason protecting his sons in the middle of a war.
- you like following a whole regiment, the 2nd Massachusetts, from fighters to doctors.
Falling Skies is bad for you if…
- five seasons is too much for you.
- you roll your eyes at speeches about hope and humanity.
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