I think it was partially YZ inspired.
They recently mentioned a character named Reznik; Trevor Reznik was the name of the dude in the machinist and I think THAT shit was confirmed to be NIN related.

I LOVED colony but they kind of fucked up the pacing.

Like in season 3 they were on the road trying to survive and it was ruff in the jungle business like early walking dead.

I was thrilled that the show took such a turn, but then the NEXT FUCKING EPISODE they were all living in seattle and had jobs and were going out for drinks and shit.

We thought we had missed an episode, or rather, a FEW episodes.