UNIVERSAL CITY ,USA Network announces a second season renewal
for the Carlton Cuse (“ Lost”) and Ryan Condal
(“ Hercules”) drama COLONY . From Legendary
Television and Universal Cable Productions ,
COLONY centers on one family ’s struggle to
survive and bring liberty back to the people of
an occupied Los Angeles . Starring Josh
Holloway (“ Lost”) Sarah Wayne Callies (“ The
Walking Dead ”) , episode four of the 10 -part
season one airs tonight at 10 /9 c .
“Carlton and Ryan have successfully delivered a
story that tests the strengths and wea knesses
of a society in duress , and the bonds of a family
divided,” said Chris McCumber , President of USA
Network. “COLONY ’ s performance across all
platforms has been impressive , and we can ’t
wait to see where the story takes us. ”
USA's intriguing sci-fi series, co-created by
'Lost's' Carlton Cuse, explores the humanQ
divisions that form after an extraterrestrial
invasion.
Everything about Colony feels familiar, even as it
strives to create a wholly new world of alien
technology and occupied-nation resistance.
Colony tells the story of Will and Katie Bowman
(Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies, both
delivering strong performances), parents who were
separated from their 12-year-old son Charles when
aliens arrived one year earlier and took over,
erecting massive walls blocking off their section of
California from the surrounding world. Now living
in occupied Los Angeles with their remaining
teenage son and younger daughter, the show opens
with Will making a daring secret effort to cross the
barrier and find Charles, only to be unintentionally
revealed when a resistance group detonates a
bomb. Upon his capture, he’s greeted by Proxy
Governor of the colony, Snyder (Peter Jacobson),
who offers him a choice: Collaborate, root out the
underground group resisting the alien-appointed
government agents, and Will’s son will be returned
to him. Refuse, and be shipped with his family to
“The Factory,” a punishment spoken of in
mysterious, hushed tones, which indicate that
whatever happens there is very bad.
The larger mysteries of the series also pull the
viewer in, because they’re legitimately abstract,
and yet have large consequences for the story. It’s
unclear who the aliens are or what their larger
plan is—no one Will knows has ever seen one (so
far as he knows, anyway), despite seeing their ships
roar into and out of the sky at night. That
frustrated sense of not knowing lends weight to
both the anger of the resistance and the resigned
inevitability, on the part of the collaborators, of
things as they are. No one is really right, and no
one is wholly wrong. Additionally, there are
questions of a smaller scale. What kind of long-
term plan does the resistance fighter have for
dealing with their secret position as one of the very
people that Will is hunting? How does Will hope to
evade the eventual moral responsibility for his
actions? With every decision, the right choice is less
clear. Is it better to maintain some semblance of
moral absolutism, or to get a look behind the
curtain, and maybe find out who’s pulling the
strings?
Again, these are compelling stories, not merely
because they hold conceptual appeal, but because
Colony executes them with fast-paced fun and
breathless verve.
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