Title: Rich premise, poorly executed
Review: I've only seen the pilot and the second episode, but so far I'm not as impressed as I had hoped. Though the idea is loaded with possibilities, the execution is poor, from clunky dialog that lurches from the absurd to the trite (what little girl would say, when referring to the rain, "It's only a light shower"?)o poor acting and X-Files-like stories. There's an interesting and recent French movie called "They Came Back." You might call it an anti-zombie film about what would happen if the dead rose up from their graves and returned to their towns. They haven't decomposed or anything like that; they're as they were just before they died. How would society reintegrate them?The 4400 pointlessly complicates the interesting questions posed by the premise, by giving the returnees special powers that, naturally, work against them. I was hoping that The 4400 would be a little deeper than it is.
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