GRANTLAND WATER AND POWER DEPARTMENT
A Detailed Accounting of Every Crossbow Death in the Series Premiere of Revolution
By Mark Lisanti at
What would happen if the world lost electricity, the lifeblood of modern society? NBC's Revolution, which premiered last night to (surprisingly?) strong ratings, has the answers: Civilization would quickly collapse. People would start sawing cars in half and converting them into horse-drawn buggies. There would be an acute shortage of asthma inhalers.
And then we'd start murdering each other with crossbows.
As a service to you, the reader who may have skipped Revolution in favor of Monday Night Football or a time-shifted Mob Doctor, we have cataloged every crossbow death — and there were many — in the pilot. Do with this information what you will (i.e., use it to watch only the parts where there is crossbow-delivered justice; the show wasn't very good once you got past all the crossbow killings).












