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Note: Seasons 4, 5 and 6 are much shorter. The decision was made late Season 3 (2007) to give the show an end-date, with a specific number of episodes (the end date being May 2010). This resulted in the seasons starting in January/February, instead of September/October. This resulted in no christmas breaks, but roughly 17 hours a season.
4400 - Season 1, Episode 5 - "The Way We Were" - Discussion Thread. 2021 Show. Keisha hears the truth about the day she lost her sister, moving her to take a chance. Shanice and Andre enjoy a day out, meanwhile, Hayden and Mariah grow closer. Avi Youabian directed the episode written by Ashley Sims.
I am 4 episodes in and the acting, writing and special effects are horrible. Interesting concept, terrible execution. I've read that it get's better in Season 2, but not sure I want to invest any more time. It's a great show, with lots of interesting plot twists.
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By Samantha Nelson
Posted: Oct 25, 2021 2:30 pm
4400's premiere, "Past Is Prologue," airs on The CW on Oct. 25, 2021.
When influencer Gabby Petito went missing last month, activists asked why so much more attention was paid to the disappearance of a young white woman than the cases of missing people of color. That conflict is at the heart of 4400, The CW’s reboot of the 2004 USA Network series The 4400 about 4400 missing people who spontaneously reappear together. But the earnest effort to reframe the plot as a racial justice narrative gets off to a rough start thanks to clunky dialogue and an attempt to introduce far too many characters.
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Even worse is the dialogue. Rather than take the time to introduce all the primary characters slowly, 4400’s writers have rushed to try to jam in as many as possible in the pilot. The result leaves them largely feeling like thin archetypes constantly shouting their backstories at anyone who will listen. They’re regularly making it clear what times they come from in the most unsubtle ways possible, such as noting the last thing they remember was watching Michael Jordan’s Chicago Bulls, or asking if ragtime is still a popular musical genre.
The most attention is given to Shanice (Brittany Adebumola), a lawyer who disappeared from 2005 on her first day back from maternity leave. Adebumola does a solid job of portraying believable panic and grief as she desperately tries to get back to the life she left behind, but it makes the placid attitudes of the other 4400 feel ludicrous by comparison. The only other detainee who even puts up much of a protest is party girl LaDonna (Khailah Johnson), and that just comes off as an awful stereotype as all she actually wants is her phone back.
The writers are showing a remarkable lack of trust in their audience.
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While members of the 4400 might really want to share their stories with each other given the shocking situation they find themselves in, it’s really inexplicable for their caretakers, parole officers Jharrel Mateo (Joseph David-Jones) and Keisha (Ireon Roach), who dump their tragic motivations on each other the first time they meet for drinks. While the show is clearly trying to go for the same partners-with-conflicting-styles dynamic as the original’s Tom Baldwin (Joel Gretsch) and Diana Skouris (Jacqueline McKenzie), which itself was a riff on The X-Files’ Mulder and Scully, the intimacy between those agents was forged over the course of numerous intense episodes rather than a single conversation.
Like in the original, some of the returned discover they’ve come back with superpowers. Most notably, ‘50s civil rights activist and preacher’s wife Claudette (Jaye Ladymore) discovers she can regenerate from wounds. Watching her enlist others to help her experiment with her abilities is charming, but as LaDonna’s exasperated comments that she’s locked up with a member of the X-Men indicate, this isn’t exactly an original ability. The 4400 broke from traditional superhero archetypes with a focus on powers that were more likely to change the course of the entire world rather than being useful in a fight, setting that standard early with characters with prophetic visions and the ability to heal others. For all its political ambitions, it would be a shame if 4400 was lacking that same vision for its speculative fiction.
The 4400 was an incredible series, so any attempt to produce a worthy successor was going to be a challenge. So far, 4400 hasn’t even come close. Updating the show’s politics with a diverse cast may be a noble effort, but “Past Is Prologue” seems to miss what made the original so powerful. The writers are showing a remarkable lack of trust in their...
May 7, 2021 · Shutterstock. At the time of this writing, you can watch every season of "The 4400" on Netflix, and it's the only way to watch the show online right now. If you don't have a subscription with that ...
4400: Created by Ariana Jackson. With Brittany Adebumola, Joseph David-Jones, Ireon Roach, T.L. Thompson. 4400 overlooked, undervalued, or otherwise marginalized people who vanished without a trace over the last hundred years are all returned in an instant, having not aged a day and with no memory of what happened to them.
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4400 (pronounced "forty-four hundred") is an American science fiction mystery drama television series developed by Ariana Jackson. The series is a reboot of the 2004 television series The 4400. It premiered on October 25, 2021, on The CW and concluded on February 14, 2022. In May 2022, the series was canceled after one season.
