Siberia - NBC TV Series

[To Be Quite Honest]

Siberia is drama series about a (fictional) reality TV show where 16 contestants plopped into the remote Siberian territory of Tunguska. Then really bad things start to happen. Pretty much the only people who would keep a camera steadily rolling while fighting for their lives are news crews and veteran documentary and reality TV teams, so this set-up works.

[trackercowe]

Looks pretty interesting, but the acting in the trailer is absolutely brutal. Maybe that's their intention based on the reality concept of the show, but it's going to be hard to take things seriously if they only have a bunch of brutal actors on the show long-term.

[Yeah_Baby]

I hope they watch out for Krychek and the Black Oil.

[trackercowe]

Originally Posted by Yeah_Baby

I hope they watch out for Krychek and the Black Oil.

Don't know what he can do with his missing hand... oh and being dead and all sort of doesn't help matters either.

[CaptainCrunch]

I just watched the first two episodes and for some reason I do like it. Maybe because of the hot chicks.

While some of the acting is schlocky, they've had some pretty solid story elements so far.

[Igster]

Yeah, I'm with you Captain...I'm kind of liking it as well. Then again, I was a huge Harper's Island fan as well.

[RyZ]

I saw the first episode without knowing what it was (a fake reality show) and was almost horrified. It was one of those "I can't believe somebody actually put money and effort into this" moments. I'll have to give it another watch without thinking it is supposed to be real.

[Kybosh]

I watched the first episode without knowing anything about it at all. I didn't realize it was a scripted reality show until the end of the episode despite seeing some questionable things. I felt like I was punked, but I went on to watch the 2nd episode anyway...

[Robotic]

Watched both episodes and enjoying it so far. Not sure if it will hold out for the rest of the season. Thinking about showing it to my roommate and not letting her know its 'fake'. See how long it would take to catch on. Probably never will.

[CaptainCrunch]

Loved tonight's episode for some reason. I think the plot movement was solid with the last two scenes being especially good.

The first episode without the host, who should have shown up after the cabin burned.

[Acey]

As an absolutely huge Survivor fan.... I just can't do it. It's too far beyond ridiculous.

My parents mentioned that they watched 2 episodes thinking it was a real reality show. They said they were a little suspicious when the producers let the contestants boil up poisonous mushrooms.

[CaptainCrunch]

Originally Posted by Puxlut

My parents mentioned that they watched 2 episodes thinking it was a real reality show. They said they were a little suspicious when the producers let the contestants boil up poisonous mushrooms.

Something that should be a immunity challenge in Survivor.

Ok Contestants there are 9 mushrooms in here, 8 of them have not been boiled and therefore can cause severe side effects such as explosive diarrhea and tripping balls hallucinations.

Contestant - don't you mean or

No, the 9th mushroom is completely harmless.

Now after you eat these mushrooms we're going to put you in a dark cave and make you try to find the immunity idol, any questions?

[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.

[To Be Quite Honest]

I have it pvr'd for later. It did take too long to get to it for me. I think I'm on episode 3 or 4.

[kipperfan]

The acting was pretty bad but for some reason I watched the whole season. I guess I am with you Cap, it really isn't a bad show and actually did have me intrigued at a few points. Would probably tune back in if they do a 2nd season.