4400

Just like a few of the other CW shows, 4400 uses the name, but very little else from the source material. It's sad to see how little they bothered to invest. The show is about 4400 missing people mysteriously reappearing, but you never see more than 20 extras, all living in an abandoned hotel. Rounding out the cast are unnecessarily raged filled racist guards and clueless government officials.

I would say this is typical CW crap....but honestly it's worse than their usual... Is the original 4400 is one of my all time favorite sci-fis ,but this is straight garbage.

All these years waiting for a follow up of the original 4400, that was great, and we get this horrible remake with stupid fake dialogues and bad acting. Such a shame because it shows that they invest good money in the production but that's it, the screenplay is really bad.

Do you want to know the biggest issue I have with this show? The casting. The premise of the show is a bunch of people from different times who have been missing for X number of years suddenly return and it's a mystery. So do you know what is incredibly preposterous? That you have young kids leading the investigation. I look at some of these actors, and while they would be terrific in another show, they don't belong here as the leads. This is one of the greatest incidents in human history and you have what? 23 year olds leading the investigation? Silly. These would be people in their 40s, 50s, 60s, 70s. You know the type to be leading this? A Sterling K Brown, an older guy from The Wire, so many Black actors who look like they have done the job for years and you believe them when they say things, but this feels like kids playing dress up. It's INCREDIBLY distracting. I can barely focus on what they are saying because I don't believe them. I feel like my nieces are wearing grown up clothes. 2. The writing. I really liked the original 4400. I own it, but that's not why I don't love this. The plus? The diversity is good, but the writing and casting isn't.

...and I kind of agree. Synopsis talks about 4400 overlooked and blah blah. So, one main character is a lawyer, another is doing a reality show, this and that. How are they somehow in a bad place? Oh, right, this is about USA and skin color: nobody is white, and almost everyone is black. That's the main story.

They mention people were taken "from all over the world", yet they only focus on a handful of black people from USA. They try so hard to make everything about skin color. It alienates people who aren't all into USian politics. It detracts from the story.

And the story... I'm in episode 10 now. There's not much of a story. It's all overshadowed by other things. This isn't scifi, this is just narrative of one country's societal issues based on skin color. If in 10 episodes you haven't gotten anywhere in the actual plot, the one that's supposed to be the story, I don't think it's going anywhere.

If this gets a second season I hope they actually take off their skin color glasses and actually think which show they're doing: scifi story, or societal commentary. You clearly aren't capable of doing both.