Colony (TV Series 2016–2018)

Awards
- 5 nominations

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Trivia
Bears a lot of resemblance to the video game series Half Life 2 (2005). There are never-seen alien overseers, with co-opted humans who act as a militaristic police force and proxy governers. A resistance in the oppressed population with sympathizers, as well as those who wish they wouldn't interfere. Furthermore there are large alien structures and walls that create blocks to section off populated areas, with drones that observe the civilian population and can inform the authorities. There are also work camps and prison complexes used as torture facilities.

Connections
Referenced in Late Night with Seth Meyers: Anthony Anderson/Famke Janssen/Eleanor Friedberger (2016)

Colony is some pretty high.brow sci-fi for TV. Maybe it was a little too much so for most viewers. It veers from being evasive and mysterious to laying all its cards on the table to finally hitting a good groove in season three...only to be mercilessly cancelled without a satisfying conclusion. Reading what they had planned for seasons four and five is a real bummer, knowing we'll never see the war in space.

This show was admittedly frustrating and sometimes slow. The budget restrictions of being a sci-fi series on cable TV kept it from really gaining a bigger audience. When they did show alien technology, it was very impressive. The parallels between the alien invasion and parts of our own human history kept things going, supplying lots of human drama. The massive TV graveyard of prematurely cancelled sci-fi shows without a proper ending claims another one.