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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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

“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 ...

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 ...

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 ...