USA’s Colony isn’t a sci-fi TV show, it’s an ambitious social experiment.
Here’s our review of the tense series premiere…
The father, Will Bowman, played byLostsJosh Holloway, grabs two eggs that sit patiently on the counter.
All of a sudden, one of the eggs drops to the floor by accident.
The mustardy yolk oozes out onto the tiles.
The thing is, she knows hes lying.
She knows that its bad, in fact.
Theres a runny mess all over the floor.
You cant hide it from those you care about.
You cant just pretend its not there.
Youve got to get rid of it or itll start spoiling everything.
So she hands him a towel to help him clean it up.
The cleverest thing about the pilot ofColonyis that it doesnt play out like you would expect a pilot to.
Its more like watching the premiere of the shows second season by accident.
It cleans up the fallout from the climactic events in a first year that we sense was action packed.
No, wrong side.
The one that looks like Matthew Fox.
Colonyowes a lot toLost.
Not just because they share a leading actor, although that is a big part of it.
Truth is, both of these series are almost identical in presentation and style.
Its all veryLost-esque to the point of seeming dated, but not unfortunately so.
Marketing aside,Colonyhas high aspirations that might certainly go over the heads of most causal USA viewers.
Snyder portrays a entertaining villain, in the spirit of lovable bad guys like Mayor inBuffy the Vampire Slayer.
His villainous character also happens to be the sole provider of comic relief during this entire poker-faced hour.
In that sense, hes disarming because hes so human, and so not what we expected.
What can be the most horrific is how normal something seems, after all.
Rating:
4 out of 5
