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Kid Nation

Kid Nation

Forty kids, ages 8 to 15, spend 40 days without parents in Bonanza City, N.M., a ghost town where they try to create a community. They cook their own meals, haul their own water, clean their own outhouses and even run businesses. Four peer leaders are elected who pass laws and set bedtimes. No one is ``voted out'' at the town meeting that closes each episode, but any kids who have had enough can simply raise their hands and leave.

Premiere:
Sep 19, 2007
Original Network:
CBS

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'Kid Nation' Episode Recaps

  • Finalewatch '07: 'Kid Nation'

    Wednesday (Dec. 12) night marked the ending of the first (and last?) season of Kid Nation. There were many grand, sweeping pronouncements about all of the things that the series proved, all of the evidence...

  • 'Kid Nation' funds a cure for cancer

    Wednesday (Dec. 5) night's Kid Nation began with our pint-sized pioneers up to Day 35 of their social experiment/forced labor camp. With only five days to go, the focus began to shift from general childish...

  • Eugenics and air hockey come to 'Kid Nation'

    Wednesday (Nov. 28) was the last night of November sweeps and so Kid Nation pulled out all the stops in the only way it knows how. That meant lots and lots and lots of misbehavior...

  • 'Kid Nation' goes from democracy to fascism

    I've made several joking references to how Kid Nation has been advocating Communism, but Wednesday (Nov. 21) night's episode offered the most telling depiction of how kids are naturally and instinctively drawn to fascism since...

  • Change breeds conflict on 'Kid Nation'

    Yikes. Wednesday (Nov. 14) night's Kid Nation was pretty action-packed, eh? A district swap, a genuinely compelling Showdown, a humiliating F-bomb, a kid going home, Taylor in tears and a shocking end-of-episode cliffhanger?

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