College Pop Culture

Over the past couple weeks I’ve been growing to love the post-apocalyptic NBC show, Revolution, starring Billy Burke. Luckily for me, the whole first season was on Netflix and season 2 is geared up to start in a week.

 

The show follows Charlotte “Charlie” Matheson (Tracy Spridikos) who is living in a world 15 years after all of the power went out for an unexplained reason. She, her father, and her brother Danny live in a quasi-compound that used to be a suburban cul-de-sac in a seemingly peaceful life.

 

When the Monroe Militia, the only source of indoctrinated power, comes by their compound claiming they needed Charlie’s father in order to turn the lights back on, a fight breaks out that ultimately kills her father. In place of her father, the Militia takes her brother Danny captive and Charlie is told in her father’s last breaths to find her uncle Miles (Billy Burke).

 

Revolution never had a predictable plotline and surprised me each episode. The world-building was pretty impressive, for television. I never felt like the writers were making up plot as they went—everything had a distinct purpose and connected through the awesome use of flashbacks to time before the power went out. The characters are complex and every villain gets a humanizing back story which I also appreciate. They get to the heart of what makes people click which is a rare thing on TV now in my opinion.

 

Check out this first sneak peak of season 2, or, if you haven’t watched it, cram season 1 into all of your spare time before the premiere Wednesday September 25 at 8/7c.