Year Zero (Upcoming HBO Series)

Trent Reznor wrote:"We are in pre-production with HBO and BBC to do a miniseries," Reznor told LA Times. "It's exciting. I probably shouldn't say too much about it except that I understand that there's a thousand hurdles before anything shows up in your TV listing. Our writer is Daniel Knauf from 'Carnivale' and he's busy with pages right now. So it's very much alive and incubating at the moment."

Plot: The story takes place in the United States in the year 2022, which has been termed "Year 0," by the American government, being the year that America was reborn. The US had suffered several major terrorist attacks, apparently by Islamic fundamentalists, including attacks on Los Angeles and Seattle. In response, the government granted itself emergency powers and seized absolute control on the country. The US government is now a Christian fundamentalist theocracy, maintaining control of the populace through institutions like the Bureau of Morality and the First Evangelical Church of Plano. Americans must get licenses to marry, bear children, etc. Subversive activities can result in these licenses being revoked. Dissenters regularly disappear from their homes in the night, and are detained in federal detainment centers and sanitariums, if not executed.

Amidst all of this are increasing sightings of what is labeled "The Presence," which manifests as a pair of massive ghostly hands and arms extending down from the sky into the ground. Despite early attributions of The Presence to drug-induced mass hysteria, it soon becomes clear that it is a physical phenomenon capable of being recorded on video and film. Theories vary on the real cause of the appearances, but the prevailing opinion appears to be that the hands represent God or some other equivalent supernatural force.



There you go, it's happening. The end is near.

This is not where I should be.

Try to believe.