{"id":8674,"date":"2016-06-05T09:49:23","date_gmt":"2016-06-05T15:49:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8674"},"modified":"2016-05-28T20:07:46","modified_gmt":"2016-05-29T02:07:46","slug":"post-mortem-falling-skies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2016\/06\/post-mortem-falling-skies\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; Falling Skies"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?attachment_id=10407\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-10407\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-10407\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FallingSkies.jpg\" alt=\"FALLING SKIES\" width=\"672\" height=\"378\" srcset=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FallingSkies.jpg 672w, http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/06\/FallingSkies-300x169.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 672px) 100vw, 672px\" \/><\/a><em>Falling Skies<\/em>, TNT&#8217;s science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth meant as an allegory for the Revolutionary War, concluded last summer after 5 seasons. \u00a0Starring Noah Wylie as a history professor who becomes second-in-command for the 2nd Massachusetts militia, the show followed his family as they fought back against the aliens that attacked the Earth, eventually becoming allies with a second group of aliens to fight back against the first.<\/p>\n<p>The show ended with the humans eventually winning out over their new alien overlords, but had turned into a mess of plots and characters that made it nearly impossible to follow. \u00a0Wylie has been a favorite dating back to his <em>ER<\/em> days and was part of what initially drew me in, but he deserved better than this.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Falling Skies, TNT&#8217;s science fiction series about an alien invasion of Earth meant as an allegory for the Revolutionary War, concluded last summer after 5 seasons. \u00a0Starring Noah Wylie as a history professor who becomes second-in-command for the 2nd Massachusetts militia, the show followed his family as they fought back against the aliens that attacked [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[1330,6684,6686,6685,3619],"class_list":["post-8674","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-er","tag-falling-skies","tag-noah-wylie","tag-revolutionary-war","tag-tnt"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8674"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10409,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8674\/revisions\/10409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8674"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8674"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8674"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}