[CaptainCrunch]

Well the first season ended, and I'm not sure its going to be back which in a way is sad, because there was some good in this series, they just left the good til the last minute and a lot of people had probably already tuned out.

Spoiler!

What we know is that this was a reality show seemingly gone wrong. The production crew basically vanished early on and they were being stalked by something supposedly super natural.

The exit point which was a helicopter pad was never functional. One of the people that left turned up later on dead in the woods.

The group split into two after one of the players was injured in a spike trap. One group ended up at a scientific research station filled with corpses that was watching the game. We know they had seen the dead forest where an asteroid or something hit in the 18th century and left it flattened.

The other group was captured by a Siberian tribe who talked about the Valley men and an ancient truce that was broken when the reality players camped in their territory.

they eventually all ended up reunited at the research station, and they watched a video from one of the dead camera men that showed a hazy fast moving animal attaching them and a beam of light exploding in the sky. The two people with the camera men couldn't remember any of that happening.

Then a Russian rescue party showed up and threatened to kill them all, they were looking for a weapon and they were responsible for killing the scientists at the research station.

The Russian soldiers were then attached by something other worldly in the bushes.

The season ends with the survivors escaping and fleeing into a abandoned town and being confronted by the host of the reality show who had vanished with the simple words. "Your not supposed to be here.

All in all it wasn't terrible. There was some nice tension moments through the first year, but they were a little too patient not revealing much until the last five minutes of the season.

My theory

Spoiler!

The valley men who leave distinct footprints are aliens who were stranded there when their ship crashed back in the 18 hundreds that flattened the forest. The Russians are looking for a weapon from the alien space ship. The beam of light that caused the green sky is an alien rescue beacon.

More importantly there was no reality show. They were being used as bait to draw the aliens out by being placed in their territory intentionally.

Part of me hopes the show comes back because it was an intriguing show and very interesting at the end.