Colony (2016–2018) User Reviews (515)

Cancelled after three seasons.

[Darren2589 · 7/10 · 28 July 2018]

I'm so disappointed that they have cancelled the series at the end of season 3. We were just starting to get a grip of what was actually going on and it was about to kick off with the war. I can only imagine that this was going to sap the budget on SFX so they decided to can it.

I really wish they would allow the production to bring the story to a conclusion. I feel sort of ripped off having invested 36 hours of my life on this story only to find the back pages ripped out by the network. Pah :-(.

Why can't series producers behave honourably?

[Nemesis42 · 8/10 · 20 May 2020]

Series three finished with a cliffhanger and no ending. Why the heck can't these production houses plan things better. I get it, ratings go down a bit, ditch the show. Well in that case, plan and write the series so that the actual ending is at the end of series three without the need for a fourth series. Bloody dishonourable morons. Art and business don't mix so well. I want to know what happened !

They could give the go-ahead like what happened with sense-8. Fund a final chapter. The final act could be compressed into a single movie length episode. So they save money, and appease us fans.

I hope Netflix picks this back up it was pretty good

[Prophetik · 8/10 · 2 June 2019]

Right when it starts to get super good you wanna cancel it ? Yeah it starts off slow and you're wondering if it's just another political show but it's not it's so much more they built momentum from season 1 to present it's very sad it was cancelled, i just got done watching it on netflix and thought it was amazing, i wanna know what happens next!

USA NETWORK IS AWFUL

[Lcarroll42 · 10/10 · 27 July 2018]

Colony was one of the top 2-3 shows on USA, and not only did they cancel this great show, but they allowed the show to end without ANY storyline completion. USA Network is a bunch of morons for canceling Colony.

I hope that Netflix or any other network picks up this show...

I Had To Abandon My Policy On Watching Cancelled TV Series - Colony is a Brilliant Show

[ukproject · 9/10 · 15 May 2021]

I absolutely hate watching mid story cancelled shows.

More than that, I hate the way companies like Netflix and Amazon etc market a show with the full knowlege that they are incomplete works. I strongly believe that such shows should come with a disclaimer.

I wouldn't start reading a book or watching a movie with the knowlege that the book had the last chapter missing or that the movie theatre would turn the projector off with 20 mins of the movie left, so why these companies get away with misleading marketing routinely is beyond me.

So a few episodes into Colony I thought I'd pop onto IMDB to write a review only to find out that this brilliantly executed show had been axed.

Despite this I decided to stick with COLONY as it is truly exceptional. So good in fact that I am continuing to watch it even though i know with absolute certainty that it will piss me off in the end.

This is definitely my kind of sci-fi. It combines political drama, intrigue, mystery and classical sci-fi themes along with a sprinkling of cop show, detective, revolutinary type elements. It touches on cult worship and religions, whether the right thing to do is to fall in line with your oppressors or resist and risk the possible death of the innocent in the fight.

It also brutally hits home how controllable human beings really are especially with todays technology. Give a regime enough control and at a certain point you simply won't be able to wrench that control back. Convince or coerce enough people to side with the system, and you're freedoms are gone. It's all a matter of when and how that balance tips for or against you.

It also shows advanced aliens truly acting intelligently. Instead of just appearing out of nowhere and nuking everything in sight, they simply take control of those who have control and power to begin with. The scare tactics, intimidation and psychological warfare techniques are spot on.

The shows pacing, acting and directing is good. The atmosphere is oppressive as it should be.

As an early fan of The Walking Dead who finally gave up watching after either the one eyed patch guy, the baseball bat dude or the cannibals (I can't remember which one was the last), I found Colony to be far superior. Having said that though if the makers of Colony also intended dragging the story out endlessly then maybe cancellation was a better option.

At the very least some sort of story should have concluded even if it resulted in the invaders winning in the end.

In any case, from what I've seen so far midway through season 2, Colony would have gotten a 10 from me. The only reason I've taken one star off is because of the absolute morons who decided to cancel Colony.

They should all be sent to The Factory.

Gets better as the story progresses

[fabz · 7/10 · 23 March 2017]

Colony has a fairly original premise. The characters are at times a bit hard to stomach, but overall it's a pleasant watching experience. I found it well worth sitting through an at times annoying first season just to get through to season 2, which is much more interesting. The character development in season 2 has been quite impressive and they are now much more acceptable heroes and anti-heroes. Worth watching.

Loved this series

[claudew-72515 · 10/10 · 2 September 2018]

What a bunch of morons to cancel this series without some kind of ending. Will NEVER start a series again by USA

Hollywood continues swirling the toilet.

[rsvp321 · 29 July 2018]

Once again, an outstanding series gets cancelled because it doesn't make social issues, political messages, and pc, as the centre of each episode. All they offered was good sci fi and entertainment lol

It's unbelievable that agenda-driven series like Flash, Arrow, Cloak and Dagger, Impulse, Black Lightning, et al, lower rated and identically social j w motivated, keep going, when the best "just entertainment" series like Colony and The Expanse get cancelled in their early development.

Too bad there's no Colony books to continue the adventure.

USA Network Intends to Leave Us Hanging!?!!?

[TheValleyHillBilly · 6/10 · 26 July 2018]

From multiple sources, the USA Network has cancelled Colony. A really good SciFi show, that deserved a proper ending...rather than leaving us hanging.

After this treatment of the viewer by USA Network, will anyone ever start to watch a new series of theirs again???? Fans deserve at least a 2 hour real finale for closure. Or...revive it on the SyFy Network.

I continue to be disgusted with the manipulating self-serving liberal media.

Netflix, #SaveColony

[mr118 · 9/10 · 22 January 2019]

One of the best SciFi shows I've ever seen. Immersive, distopian world, great story, awesome characters, super addictive - I rarely get a show that I watch until 5 AM (which costed me greatly at work). What USA Network did was terrible, show would made a legendary 5 seasons saga, as it is - unfortunately remains unfinished and plot seem "cut in the middle", thus 9 not 10.

Not bad...

[tchitouniaram · 6/10 · 9 January 2022]

Probably would rate it a bit higher if not for the unfinished last season...Really unfair to people...Anyway, reasonable time killer, if nothing left to watch...

Why?

[fotioschan · 10/10 · 31 July 2018]

Cancelled? Really?One of the best TV shows? Bring it back

Let's play....tick the TV script boxes!

[Rob_Taylor · 6/10 · 17 March 2017]

Yes folks! Sit down and let's check off the sins of this particular, by-the-numbers show.

1. Brooding, perpetually angry looking hero...check! 2. Call it a scifi show but actually have very little scifi to show...check! 3. Annoying and superfluous family drama that dominates the runtime...check! 4. Glacial pacing to ensure that nothing actually ever happens...check! 5. Constantly suggest something more interesting will happen, but never actually get to it...check! 6. Annoyingly try to make human politics interesting...check! 7. Make as many of the show's characters as annoying as possible...check! 8. Have obligatory teen angst and drama tacked on...check!

I could go on, but you probably get the idea. The family drama just never lets up and overshadows the occupation setting horribly. I still don't get why it is felt necessary to shoehorn this dynamic into shows that really don't require it.

If you were hoping this show would be a stirring tale of the rise of the resistance and fighting back against alien oppressors, then think again.

For the most part, the aliens remain unseen and aloof, only sending in their hovering drones when absolutely necessary. Which is fine, but it leaves most of the antagonist work to be done by humans. This sounds good in theory, but in reality...

Remember all those old films an TV shows, where they didn't have the money to show aliens, so they used the plot device of "they can look like us!" as a cop out to have aliens, without having aliens?

Well, Colony feels like that. Except, they aren't aliens that look like us. They are us! We're the aliens in this scifi drama. It may be that this was the intent all along... to show how much scumbaggery we are capable of to our fellow man, but it just seems cheap.

If the story was better, or actually had a plot that progressed from week to week (a la The Expanse) then I might forgive this lack of scifi and aliens. But it doesn't. It just plods along with all the alacrity of a comatose snail.

Think I'm being unkind? Well, how is this... I'm on episode 10 of season 2 and all that has happened since the beginning of season 1 is...

The family recovered a son and (gasp in surprise!) they have discovered the aliens (which haven't been seen yet) have an ulterior motive in rounding up the human population.

That is literally all that has happened of any consequence since day 1 of the series. Beyond that, all that happens is a lot of hand-wringing over decisions that never amount to anything and the ongoing, utterly mind-numbing, never-ending family drama.

It's scifi, for people who don't watch scifi.

SUMMARY: Plot that never moves along, annoying characters, tiresome family drama. The show's conclusion will undoubtedly vie with the heat-death of the universe for the most long-awaited event that no one will ever see.

1/10. Please read why

[WatchAndSmile · 1/10 · 27 November 2018]

We watch the show and want to know the end. The show was canceled the creators did not even bothered to create an ending for the show, abruptly ending it. That's just wrong and direspectful to the viewers who for 3 years wanted to find out what happened/what will happen. They had plenty of time to do so but decided to just cancel it. Ouch! 1/10

Outstanding Sci-Fi

[jarroddmarriott · 9/10 · 1 September 2018]

A very good show, well written with interesting characters. Seems strange a network would cancel this out of the blue with no story resolution, but renew all the other rubbish out there.

Here's hoping Amazon, Netflix or someone will pick it up. #SaveColony

Please Renew This Show!!

[courtneyknicely · 10/10 · 20 December 2018]

Please please please bring this show back!! I was always on the edge of my seat. And to end it right when the war was finally starting!! It's all built up to this moment. Please at least give us closure. The Colony was a tremendous show. Please bring it back!!

Great series - Needs a season 4.

[lardbickford · 7/10 · 26 September 2021]

Loved this. It's allied to 'V' in some ways but I really like the depth of the human deception and the whole, 'who's on what side' vibe. I thought I would be annoyed by having such little interaction from the host aliens but actually, the human behaviours and dialogue was enough to keep these gripping, interesting and a change from some of the typical science fiction storylines.

There's some real human nature stuff in here too and Proxy Snyder is, personally, I feel one of the best and most complex characters. You are constantly left wondering about him.

I'm amazed they haven't moved on with a series 4...and hope the likes of Netflix perhaps see's a route to take us to the next stage of the story...arguably, the most enlightening and a chance to get to know the 'hosts' and their enemies, alongside seeing how humans fair in the battle ahead.

Yes, it starts as kind of a cop show. But it gets much better

[arthurcooper · 10/10 · 31 May 2018]

Yeah, this is TV without a game of thrones budget, so every single episode isn't packed with crazy sci-fi set pieces. Yeah, it does start off the first season with some slightly aggravating characters, and yeah, the first couple episodes do feel a little TOO much like some serialized cop show you've seen before. And, yes, you don't see aliens -- at first. But there's a lot more in store. If you give this show a shot, it goes in some in some very different directions, with some unexpected twists and great action. Also this is definitely NOT one of those shows where they do not want to move the main plot forward. Things change in very interesting ways and the characters get a lot more real. By season 3, this is nothing even close to a cop show.

Good show that lost its way

[AJ_McAninch · 7/10 · 10 February 2019]

Though I didn't want it canceled, it is still another series that begins well, but loses its way through bad writing decisions. That third season just muddled about, and the result was loss of audience and then cancellation. When will writers learn that when they have a good premise, great characters, good actors and directors-stay with the narrative that is working and develop it. What a pity they didn't.

WTF?

[rasalt · 10/10 · 26 July 2018]

Why in the hell did you just cancel this show? It was one of the best on tv. That was no finale! It wasn't over. There could be so much more. Who are the idiots that decide what should be seen and what shouldn't? So you think the trumpies want to see " this is us"? One of the stupidest boring shows on tv.

Great show

[Kudamamovies · 29 August 2023]

I have really enjoyed Colony. It's so gripping, interesting and unique. I liked the concept of the "host" alien invader whom remain extremely mysterious for the most part.

I enjoyed all the characters. Alan Snyder was probably my favourite. He's such a good character and the actor played him really well. He was not the 2 dimensional weedy leader I was expecting.

I was moved by the struggle the Bowman family went through to protect their family and each other.

I genuinely believe it has been so underrated and overlooked, and it's a shame that they cancelled the show because it was so interesting.

It's all about the Benjamins...

[phoenixmichaels · 7/10 · 26 April 2019]

They don't CARE how much YOU liked it, or if you're angry with no ending either. It wasn't making the dollars they needed, and it got scrapped. End of story.

Both sci fi and realistic

[sumerahmet-95326 · 10/10 · 11 March 2019]

This series doesn't only include sci fi but also it deals with human relations like what a family can do to protect itself or what sacrifices a human can make. There is both action and emotion in it. Unfortunately, This is an unfinished story. I hope there will be new episodes.

Slow start, but really catching up :)

[ashe0211 · 7/10 · 19 February 2016]

At first I wasn't sold on the show. The first episode was kind of slow, and I hate to say it, but written kind of poorly. I will give it some slack because they had to fit a lot in just 40+ minutes. I figured I would a few more episodes before I gave up and I'm glad I did. The show has really picked up its pace and I'm looking forward to the rest of the season, I just really hope they don't cancel the show, because I would like to see what happens. I absolutely hate starting a series that does not finish or at least give us some hints as to what is going on. I will continue to watch until the last episode of the season and will update my review once I have a more knowledge.

Great Series with NO ending

[King T 2 · 1/10 · 25 January 2020]

I loved this series. But is has no ending. They cancelled this series without giving it a good or even passable ending. Therefore i cannot recommend this series at all.