In the past week there have been a couple of significant announcements regarding the upcoming season two of the USA network TV sci-fi-ish drama series Colony.
First: The debut date for the first episode of season two is set as the 12th of January 2017. That means the show is retaining its Thursday night slot. A promo video is out there.
Second: Additional characters and the actors who will play them have been named. William Russ (Cold Case, S07E18, The Last Drive In) will be a new resistance fighter Hennessey. Keiko Agena (Gilmore Girls, due to return to the TV this coming week with a new mini-series) is a new Homeland Security staff member working with Kathleen Rose Perkins (Episodes) and Josh Holloway (Lost). And finally we meet another Redhat (the army/police enforcement squad working with the invaders) questioning his role in the form of Paolo Andino (The Last Ship).
I say ‘finally’ but earlier this year Tony Plana (Ugly Betty), Jessica Parker Kennedy (Black Sails), and Bethany Joy Lenz (One Tree Hill) were announced as joining growing the cast as well. Tony will be the new bloc proxy, replacing Snyder (Peter Jacobson will still be on the show). We will likely get more of a look at the so far hidden side of the occupation because Jessica is someone in one of the labour camps. Towards the end of season one we saw Thora Birch in a significant position in the resistance. She and her small crew captured one of the aliens. Thora will not be in season two but her character remains, now in the shape of Bethany.
Amanda Righetti (The Mentalist), Adrian Pasdar (Agents Of SHIELD), Peter Jacobson (House) and Tory Kittles (True Detective) are all returning to the series in recurring roles.
An obvious omission from this list is Kathryn. We last saw her character Charlotte, the wife of a political figure (Pasdar) and art collector, being taken away by the Redhats for keeping works of art that should have been handed over to the authorities. That could very well spell the end for Charlotte but we did see glimpses of the labour camps that humans were taken to so all is not necessarily lost. Sadly though, I do think we have to assume that Kathryn will not be returning though. Let us hope I am wrong.
Colony season two will continue the story of the Bowman family and their fights for survival in a world taken over by an alien force. The world has been split into walled-in state-sized ‘blocs’. What remains of the human population is held within these areas. Little is known of what lies between them.
Josh Holloway (Lost) and Sarah Wayne Callies (The Walking Dead) are searching for their missing son as well as looking after their other two children. He is essentially a cop coerced into working for Homeland Security. She is a resistance fighter, risking everything for the sake of freedom from the invaders.
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