Colony nears 10th anniversary as an overlooked sci‑fi now on Prime Video

Movieweb reports that USA Network's Colony, now available on Prime Video, is approaching its 10th anniversary on January 14, 2026, prompting a reappraisal of the series as an underrated, mind‑bending science fiction drama. Created by Carlton Cuse and Ryan J. Condal, Colony is set in a near‑future, dystopian Los Angeles less than a year after an alien invasion and follows the Bowman family — Will (Josh Holloway) and Katie (Sarah Wayne Callies) and their son Charlie (Jacob Buster).

Will is forced to work with the Redhats, humans cooperating with the occupiers to root out The Resistance, or face being sent to "The Factory," a lunar slave camp mining Helium‑3. Creator Carlton Cuse told Collider the show was intended as a sweeping metaphor for the Nazi occupation of France in the 1940s.

The series ran three seasons and 32 episodes before an abrupt cancellation in 2018 after audience numbers fell (season 1 averaged over 1 million viewers per episode and dropped to under 600,000 by the finale, per Showbuzz Daily). Stephen King praised the show on Twitter/X, calling it: "In a year of remarkable TV, Colony is really something special: smart, suspenseful, subversive...thought‑provoking." Planned storylines for five or six seasons went unresolved; according to Josh Holloway in 2025 (via Esquire), "We were about to do the big war, finally.

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