With a well known cast, USA network thought they were going to have a good show. It had high anticipation with show front runners Josh Holloway (Lost), Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) and Peter Jacobson (House). On a rating scale it got a 7.7 out of 10 percent being the highest so it got fairly good reviews.
The show starts off with a normal everyday scene with Will (Josh Holloway) making breakfast for you two kids, but when he drops an egg, things quickly change. We see him getting overly upset about losing an egg and viewers were left questioning why. As the show moves on, we notice that something isn’t right about this town. We view Will working in what looks like a car shop and we soon see this futuristic light being placed in the trunk of a car.
Needless to say, the show keeps you guessing on what kind of world this is. The show takes place in Los Angeles, but this isn’t the normal Hollywood Hills theme, there is a huge wall dividing L.A. from the rest of the state and country. We quickly find ourselves being smuggled out of the city of L.A. to get into Pasadena, however, things don’t go so well for Will as a huge explosion interrupts him getting through. Will is out looking for his 12 year old son that was taken (we have no idea why).
Things weren’t exactly going so well for his wife Katie either. We notice Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies ) riding around on her bike everywhere with a dog by her side. There seems to be no source of transportation in this city anymore besides well-eqquiped army vehicles. We watch as she enters this scummy looking suburban house. She trades a bottle of alcohol for insulin. Things heat up when she refuses to take the medicine and the lady she’s interacting with won’t take no for an answer by whipping a gun out to make her getaway.
The show keeps you watching because you’re sitting here asking so many questions while finding yourself not getting many answers. Luckily, what we did find out was why Katie was trying so intensely to get insulin. We also met a wealthy man named Proxy (Peter Jacobson) who knows a lot about why the world is the way it is. He tries to con Will into working for him. He refused because he just wants to get back to his family. With 24 hours on the clock, there’s a ticking to make his final decision to work for Proxy and have a higher class life or stay where he is being rationalized on food and ect.
After talking it over with his wife, he asks for one thing in By the end of the show the tables turn again as we watch Katie go out back to this little shack. There we find a group of people that Katie seems to be confessing to about what her husband had decided to do. These people she talked to were mysterious and seemed to be working against the new world orders.
Here was my problem with the ending of the show. Why would you ask the viewers which side of the “colony” would we be on? We still have no idea what is fully happening in this futuristic apocalyptic world. It then showed us the faces of Will and Katie which are the sides to pick. That only left people to believe there would be a great deal of feuding to come. The show, however, did appeal to the eye greatly and also kept you watching due to all the action.
Emily Culbertson
Reporter