At this point, TV has gotten oversaturated with "mysterious alien invasion" dramas, but USA now has their own take with Colony, starring Josh Holloway (Lost) and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) as a couple in a dystopian, near-future Los Angeles. It's pretty vague in the pilot episode, but the gist is that LA (and presumably other cities) have been walled off under a military regime run by outside (extraterrestrial?) intruders. While most citizens have chosen to cooperate with these enigmatic authorities, pockets of resistance are cropping up.
This is where we meet Will (Holloway) and Katie (Callies) Bowman, whose son has gone missing. In an attempt to find him, Will tries to smuggle himself into Santa Monica, another walled-off "Colony Bloc." It isn't long, though, before he gets captured and is faced with a difficult decision. It's all very dense, indistinct stuff, with trite-sounding terms like "Hosts," "Raps," "Redhats," the "Factory" and the "Arrival." Honestly, none of the actual mythology is particularly interesting, at least not in this first episode.
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This is where we meet Will (Holloway) and Katie (Callies) Bowman, whose son has gone missing. In an attempt to find him, Will tries to smuggle himself into Santa Monica, another walled-off "Colony Bloc." It isn't long, though, before he gets captured and is faced with a difficult decision. It's all very dense, indistinct stuff, with trite-sounding terms like "Hosts," "Raps," "Redhats," the "Factory" and the "Arrival." Honestly, none of the actual mythology is particularly interesting, at least not in this first episode.
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