Great acting, suspenseful and interesting every moment of every episode. A "must watch!".FYI - I have kids watching this, so please cut out the sex scenes. Ask anyone who watches if they think this makes for a better move and they would all say "no, it makes me a little uncomfortable."

The show "The Colony" tries to hard to be a convincing show that causes suspense to the viewer. The show is completely unrealistic, in a lot of ways. For example, it would not be that convenient and easy to find people that have a specific career that can help the group in a big way as the show portrays. In "The Colony" it's never to difficult to find materials to aid in the characters survival. Seriously, each of the characters find objects to help filter water very easily, and they find a crate of brand new electric power tools. As a person that watches countless TV shows about survival and plays plenty of games with actual survival tips, this show is a disgrace. I purposely hate this show and give it 1 star because I can't put 0 stars.

I liked the premise of this show when I saw the preview and so decided to give it a shot. While the first episode had some slightly over-the-top moments, I wrote them off to a bunch of new people all being nervous/excited on camera and trying to ham it up.I invested too much time into the first few episodes and now I'm stuck until the finale, and the bad acting and ridiculous scenarios have gotten worse. This show is obviously choreographed, with multiple camera angles and edits during 'tense' moments. One can only assume that a director is yelling 'action' in-between takes.If you don't like the idea of Bear Grylls being 'presented with situations' and having the availability of 'off-camera experts' to assist him, then you certainly won't like this show (in fact it has the same disclaimer). What's funny is that Man v Wild is actually more believable to me.Do I want people to get killed on camera? No. But if a girl is a poor engineer, and she attempts to do something that would result in failure, then I expect her to NOT be helped. Show the failure. If a guy is doing something dangerous, then fine, jump in and stop him. But don't then go and teach him the right way so that he does it correctly, just cut him out of it completely. If The Colony never gets lights because there are no qualified electricians, then leave it at that.Nearly every ridiculous *presented* task is successful. Is it too much to ask to simply want to see people pass or fail a task at the same rate they would in real life? Now THAT would be exciting TV. I want to see real ingenuity, not science projects guided step-by-step by the off-camera instructor.This is reality-lite.

I'm no fan of reality TV, but I make an exception for The Colony, because it's more meaty. The scenario is that a viral outbreak has devastated Mankind, leaving relatively few survivors. The volunteers for the "experiment" are 10 individuals with diverse backgrounds, and we get to watch as they attempt to survive in an admittedly artificially constrained environment: a cordoned-off warehouse in L.A.Two things make the show special. First, the group is so immersed in the situation that the emotions are real for them, which is fascinating. Second, they do builds that are interesting and sometimes amazing.From comments the participants have made outside the show, it's fairly obvious that things were about as real as they could be, within this totally artificial situation. On the Discovery forums, Mike the mechanic wrote:"WE...and I say this again,,,,,,,,WE had NO HELP from crew or anyone else!!!!!!!!!"You can almost hear him shouting. And on his blog page, uber electrical engineer John C. wrote:"One thing I really loved about the show was that everything they showed that worked.. actually worked.. if it didn't work.. they'd show that it didn't work.. That was really important to me."Despite this, the director was not content to just sit back and watch things unfold naturally, and instead prodded the group with events, such as actors playing the role of raiders. This sometimes comes off a bit silly, but at least there are no stupid contests.It's a show that some love and some hate, so your mileage may vary.