The Road is full of uncertainty, travail and cannibalism. A father and his young son share a vision and hope of a warmer, friendlier “coast” and start their harrowing adventure towards it. Armed only with each other, a few supplies ...
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The Colony – Week 10: Don’t Look Back
There is only one word that can describe the Finale of The Colony. REVENGE. Now you might call it vengeance, vindication, eye for an eye, retaliation or payback. Perhaps because I’m Scottish the Latin “Nemo me impune lacessit” or “No ...
Read More »The Colony – Week 9: The Virus
And then there were 8, but we’ll get to that a bit later on. Survival, true survival is a twofold strategy. If you wanted to create an acronym of sorts to help prepare yourself, TS = TS would be a ...
Read More »The Colony – Week 8: Defense
Day 44 of The Colony kicks off with The Call from VOPA (Viral Outbreak Protection Agency). Becka and Reno learn from a payphone that the Agency will be on it’s way in 24 hours. In a personal flashback to the ...
Read More »The Colony – Week 7: Tick
Starvation wreaks havoc on the human body; it also shows its earliest side effects in the human mind. Irritability, increased depression and decreased concentration are just the beginning. To see firsthand the disastrous down sides of starvation all you need ...
Read More »The Colony – Week 6: Skout
“Water, Water, everywhere, Nor any drop to drink.” So goes the Rime of the Ancient Mariner as well as Episode 6 of The Colony. With dead fish floating in the canal that now smells like raw sewage, the survivors are ...
Read More »The Colony – Week 5: The Abduction
We’ve had Ricky and Lucy, Sonny and Cher, Ike and Tina. In Episode 5 of The Colony the dynamic between two of the youngest Colonists, Reno and Becka, steals the show. Though all of the Colonists were violated with the ...
Read More »The Colony – Week 4: To Have and Have Not
Week 4 of The Colony on the Discovery Channel was full of felonies; we’ll get to those in a bit. Notwithstanding the crimes, the deluge and subsequent floods wrought Mother Nature, this episode focuses a good bit closer to home ...
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