Colony

Really wanted to like it. Carlton Cuse, Josh H from Lost... but .... it's just cheesy crap. Bad writing, stale performances, absolutely god-awful score (think sci fi channel, late nineties) and no sense of stakes or capacity to immerse in the world. It just looks like a bunch of disjointed production sets. You can almost see the craft services tables and portapotties and boom mics. It doesn't even satisfy on a level of "there's nothing else on and it IS only 2 dollars, might as well". Not even on THAT level. I barely got through the pilot, and I bought the second episode hoping it would up the anti but instead it's far worse. If you're into the television rebirth, and enjoy shows like Westworld, Game of Thrones, True Detective, The Night Of, -- TV with cinematic scope and vision -- this is NOT the show you're looking for, trust me. Even shows like Mr. Robot and Orphan Black, which fall short of "great television", absolutely blow this out of the water. Bah.

I fully immersed myself into this first season and got little payoff. The characters are kind of dumb, especially the wife who I found extremely annoying and non believable. Also you don't see anything about the aliens that have taken over earth which is the whole reason you keep watching. As I watched it I found myself getting bored, annoyed and expecting it to get better. It didn't. With so many great shows out there I wouldn't waste my time on this. I kind of wish I could get my seven hours back.

It would really help this show immensely if they would show at least flash backs of the arrival ,This would give some explanation of how we arrived at this police state. I would love to see an alien invasion show like battle los angeles .Not that this was the greatest movie but i'd like to see a show about a war with aliens on earth .im kind of sick of seeing every invasion show/movie where aliens just wipe out the military's of the world in minutes