Wednesday, July 28, 2010

The Colony

Latest News Update About The Colony:The Colony starts its second season tonight. I was a fan of the first season, and the second looks like a solid extension of the “experiment.” In this season, a group of volunteer “colonists” are contained within a 10-acre neighborhood of abandoned, Katrina-ravaged Louisiana. They’re placed in a survival scenario in which a global pandemic has infected and killed most people, and the virus is still loose; these colonists must survive given what they find in their enclosed environment, and they’re often invaded by potentially-infected marauders (who are, by the way, armed with real smoke grenades and pepper spray, which they use on the colonists when provoked). The colonists must figure out how to establish viable shelter (the abandoned buildings are in terrible shape), start and maintain fires, purify water from a nearby canal, find food (some MREs are provided to start them off), and establish security. It’s a lot of work.
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