Colony Season 3 Premiere Review: Swiss Family Bowman

"Colony" has quietly returned to the USA Network after a year's absence. See my previous reviews here The season 2 finale saw the Bowman family (father Will, mother Katie, and 3 kids-- Bram, Charlie and Grace) speeding out of a walled off Los Angeles Bloc with Snyder in tow. The city has been targeted for "total rendition" by the evil alien overlords.

The group has been hiding in a cabin in the woods for the last six months. They seem relatively content with their new surroundings. A spaceship crashes nearby which quickly brings drones as well as troops to recover what's left of it. There are some cool firefights and an interesting encounter with a very large drone. It approaches Will and Katie but leaves without killing them. What kind of list is Will on that he keeps avoiding death? Remember, when he was climbing the wall back into LA with Charlie? Everyone around them was incinerated by they remained safe.

Can our favorite weasel Alan Snyder be trusted now? He did rescue Bram and help the family escape the city but we're never really sure what he's up to. Looks he's still playing a long game and both sides or every situation. And Snyder aside, it's impossible to know who to trust in this new world. Every encounter could be your last even when dealing with those in the Resistance.

Eric Broussard somehow manages to survive in LA (cause he's a badass) and pieces together IGA secrets (by pasting shredded messages back together_. Sounds fun... NOT! He's working with an underground railroad (and a woman we'll call Dispatch) to get people out of the bloc. He tries to help Claire (and her son Owen) which doesnt end well.

Anywho, looks like everyone is regrouping in Seattle so we'll see what life is like there. We'll also get to meet the mayor played by none other than Wayne Brady.

Elsewhere Helena Goldwin is at her fancy new IGA job. We learn from her limited screen time that two groups of aliens (Hosts and something else) are fighting over the planet. The second group has destroyed the Factory (which was on the moon). Looks like the Earth's fate has just gone from bad to worse.

Grade: 3 1/2 Monsters (out of 5). Yes, "Colony" does feel like a very different show this season. The sci fi series seems to have turned into Swiss Family Bowman. But it's been over a year since we last visited it so I'm willing to give the show a chance. Several mysteries still remain which will hopefully keeps viewers tuning in during season 3-- including: WHY the aliens are here and WHAT they actually look like. Josh Holloway and Sarah Wayne Callies continued to create chemistry as the parents who will do anything to save their kids and fight for humanity.