Viva la Revolution!

So last night I decided to start watching NBC's Revolution. Briefly, its about the world 15 years after a mysterious blackout overtakes the entire planet. The lights went off and never went back on.

I watched the pilot mostly to get the show out of the way. Like everything else from NBC since The Office went off air, I thought I'd hate Revolution.

I was wrong.

The show begins in the present day and then flash forwards 15 years. There were a lot of nice details here. For starters, the nice suburban cul-de-sac with a wooden walls and gate, cornfields where the concrete circle used to be, water barrels, sheep pens, etc.

Another nice touch was the flashbacks showing the Blackout. The protagonist, a teenage girl, remembers her parents letting her eat all the ice cream she wants, 'Its just going to melt anyway'. In another flashback, one of the characters was in the army and walks up to the entrance to his base to find it ringed with armed troops surrounded by road flares.  In another scene, not a flashback, we learn that a character, who after the blackout is a teacher, used to work for a company called Google. 'That's computer stuff, right?' asked a kid. He also used to a have '$80 million in the bank.'

Nothing is perfect, of course, certainly nothing coming from NBC. He above mentioned former Google employee is a roley-poly nerd whose 'afraid of bees'. He obviously would have died the first winter.

So far so good, and I'll be watching episode 2 this evening.