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Title: Too over the top
Review: Falling Skies is entertaining, but only at a juvenile level. It's mostly a mixed bag of too many things we've seen too many times before. Here is the recipe: take a healthy dose of smaltz, throw in some corn, pepper it with lots of hammy acting, sprinkle in a rather silly and unbelievable storyline, add an overly, melodramatic musical score for dressing, and then toss it all together in a relatively well done apocalyptic setting, and you've got a good idea of the flavor (and smell) of Falling Skies. The first couple of episodes weren't too hard to watch, but as with most of these series it kind of degenerates as it goes. Too bad! Seemed like it was an idea with a lot of potential.
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