Falling Skies (TV Series) Strange Brew (2013) User Reviews

Boston, Chicago, New York or Jacksonville?

[claudio_carvalho · 7/10 · 11 February 2022]

Tom wakes-up with his wife Rebecca, who asks him who Anne is since he said her name many times. Then he has breakfast with his sons and goes to the University of Boston to give class. He stumbles upon a homeless Weaver that asks him to open his eyes, meets Dean Anthony and Philosophy Professor Pope and Professor Marina and gives class where one of the students is Maggie. Along the day he is questioned in many situations whether he wants to go to Boston, Chicago, New York or Jacksonville? But soon he finds where he really is. Meanwhile Anthony seeks out leads for find the mole. Hal, Ben and Matt return to Charleston and Tom visits his destroyed house.

"Strange Brew" is an episode of "Falling Skies" certainly inspired In "Abre los ojos" and "Matrix". It is funny to see Doug "Cochise" Jones in Tom's dream. Marina is one of the main suspects of Anthony and Weaver keeps secret of their tactical movements to her. My vote is seven.

Title (Brazil): "Strange Brew"

Show Jumped the Shark (no spoilers if you've watched to this episode)

[dgoldman0207 · 3/10 · 30 July 2013]

This episode, like the few episodes before it, was pointless back-story. As soon as that baby wasn't just a baby that's when it all turned. I know the point of it must be the savior of the human race but give me a break...the thought of it is just awful...half human half alien baby???? I have posted on this site, IMDb, though it's in my top 5 favorites. I suppose I should have posted this when that abnormal baby was born but my negative feelings were starting to grow. Frankly there are just so many wrong turns with the writers between Karen as a leader of this alien race, "weird Hal," and now the young apprentice doctor (?). Clearly, the writers needed filler because the show is surrounded by sharks - but now after writing this review I know it's jumped. I'll still watch for now because maybe....

gone downhill fast

[thechez2004 · 1/10 · 25 July 2013]

I was really looking forward to the new series with the new aliens but what a disappointment its more like a soap opera with all the characters bickering between them selves rather than countering the alien threat. Aliens what destroyed the entire planet cannot deal with a few soldiers poorly armed this is a joke. The aliens could just destroy the city in one go like they did before and wipe out the soldiers end of story. This is more like corrie with an alien abduction background story

I will not be watching anymore as the poor storyline has killed another good premise

What happened???

[SanteeFats · 4/10 · 23 July 2013]

The first two seasons and the first part of season three, now I don't know what they are doing. I thinks it is a MAJOR suck factor. It has turned into a science fiction soap opera with weird and strange scenes. I guess ole Tommy boy is now a prisoner, again. He is now hallucinating from induced thoughts from the bad guys. Give me a break, this is turned in to total garbage as far as I am concerned. I bought seasons one and two but so far I will NOT be buying season three!!! I sure hope they turn things around but from what I have seen I rather doubt it. I mean when and how did Lourdes get infected? I don't remember any thing about it unless I missed it. Did she kill the V.P. or just the Prez? Since when does the government seize private property without first notifying the people? (Pope' place).

You Can Never Go Home

[AudioFileZ · 4/10 · 4 September 2013]

Memories can never take you back...Or, at least they shouldn't in this case. I'm quoting a Moody Blues song from "Every Good Boy Deserves Favour" because this episode's alternate reality, Tom's dream, reminded me of that song. Perhaps in an effort to make some sense of a misplaced episode with an atmospheric cool song. It fell flat even as the I remembered how I loved the song as a seventh-grader.

Tom awakes after, apparently, some kind of battle (as the previous episode faded to black I failed to recall it ending with a battle?). Instead of the present Tom is catapulted back to his life before the aliens invaded. This kind of thing has myriad possibilities and almost immediately the turn taken makes the viewer ask: why? I'm referring to the unfolding scenario a few days prior to Christmas. Tom is happily married to his loving wife, his kids are all well engaged in a wonderful life, and all of the people Tom encounters are those which he is presently engaged with fighting the aliens in the Second Mass. A strange feeling of some kind of "deja-vu" is creeping around Tom. He can't make sense of it and neither can a generous, allowing for artistic expression, viewer.

FFW to half-way into the episode. Oh, Tom has been captured and that young blonde who is now the point person for the aliens has engineered Tom's flashback in order to gain knowledge of the resistance's next move. I think I missed an episode because the only time I remembered Tom being held by the aliens was when he voluntarily went and this isn't jibbing with that??? These two time-lines can't be reconciled as far as one can see. The resistance doesn't know Lourdes killed the president and is the mole is the only thing that makes sense to me.

The last five minutes attempts to explain the previous 35 as if the writers know this ship has to be righted. The damage is already been done, i.e. a wasted episode. While the next installment should pick-up where this one took a left turn at Albuquerque the viewer still must endure one last flashback. A kind of release from Tom's wife it would seem (he's got a kid with Ann so I didn't realize he needed one). And so ends a qualified mess of a shoe-horned bit of ??? Someone mentioned this as the point where Falling Skies "jumped the shark"...I certainly hope not because just like a weird dream this one can be easily forgotten if the series gets back on track.