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The Discovery Channel said:What would you do in the wake of a global catastrophe? How would you find food? Water? Shelter?
The Colony is a controlled experiment to see exactly what it would take to survive and rebuild under these circumstances. For 10 weeks, a group of 10 volunteers, whose backgrounds and expertise represent a cross-section of modern society, are isolated in an urban environment outside Los Angeles and tasked with creating a livable society.
With no electricity from the grid, no running water and no communication with the outside world, all the volunteers have to work with are their skills and whatever tools and supplies they can scavenge from their surroundings.
Experts from the fields of homeland security, engineering and psychology have helped design the world of The Colony to reflect elements from both real-life disasters and models of what the future could look like after a global viral outbreak.
Over the course of the 10-week experiment, the Colonists must work together to build the necessities of survival, such as a water-filtration system, a battery bank that powered their electricity, a solar cooker, a shower system and a greenhouse – and even some niceties (a coffee maker!).
Just finished watching the first episode of this show. It seems to be edited pretty poorly. They skipped by some of the most interesting segments (introductions, scavenging from a supermarket and fighting off looters, trekking through a river) in less than two minutes.
Otherwise, it is a very interesting concept. One of the coolest things is the fact that there are multiple groups. Some of them are paid actors who are told to harass, lie to, and steal from the colonists without physically injuring them, and others are members of the experiment who don't know that there are other survivors other than them.
In the first episode, an actor tried to break into the colony in the middle of the night, and that got everyone freaked out about security. Then, when some legitimate people came knocking on the door who were part of the experiment, they were treated with hostility and suspicion.
This looks like it is going to be a pretty interesting television show.