I saw Dark Skies when I was about 13 years old on German television (channel PRO-7). As far as I can remember it was aired in summer 1997 while X-Files had a rest for some reason and was replaced by this series.
I was upset, because I am a huge X-Files fan and was watching it all the time. But it turned out to be a good choice and thanks to Dark Skies a great summer. I liked Dark Skies a lot, because it had a continuous plot, great actors (especially J.T. Walsh and Tim Kelleher as the bad guys, and Eric Close, Jeri Ryan and Megan Ward as the good guys) and was even more mysterious and scarier than X-Files at some point. This UFO theme has always caught me and Dark Skies was no exception.
(SPOILERS) It featured very bad and scary alien creatures that can possess and control human bodies. I always liked these possession kind of movies like: The Thing and The Hidden. They don't enable you to know who is good or bad at first sight. (/SPOILERS)
I read that Dark Skies should have had 5 seasons arriving at the year 2000 in the plot by the end. Unfortunately the other seasons were canceled due to low ratings. I am very sad, since I loved this series so much by the end of summer 1997 that I wanted to see it continue instead of watching X-Files again.
Too bad that the one and only season 1 was never aired again and I've never again saw it on any television channel here in Europe. I would definitely buy the DVD if it would finally be released. 10 / 10 from me. Awesome series! Good job!
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