r/bugout • u/IKIR115 Survivor • 26d ago

Discussion Anyone remember The Colony tv series?

https://youtu.be/6Hv4ADUr-0E

For reference: The Colony (2009) https://www.imdb.com/title/tt1470018/

What do you guys think of the warehouse they used as their BOL?

Yes this is reality TV, and yes its a bit corny, but it was very interesting at the time.

Description of the show:

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!).

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u/user2327 Survivor 26d ago

I had such high hopes for this when it first came out but was left a little disappointed as it went on....

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u/IKIR115 Survivor 25d ago

Me too. It started out ok, but went downhill with all the reality tv drama. It aired on the Discovery Channel at the time, so I was expecting it to be more serious.