4400

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.

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.

The original 4400 was released in 2004, before the whole superpowers thing became as hyped as it is today. It added a realistic layer missing from the comic series. That was the main reason of the success, given it was quite an average show otherwise (too much drama, some poor story choices, etc.).

It would be reasonable to assume the remake of an 18-year old show with 7.3 on IMDB should have some improvements to be a success nowadays.

The new show did none of that. It has poor story, execution and full of cliches. Remake adds nothing of value and tanks with the things already existing in the original. Alas, from the very beginning the story diverges quite significantly, so it cannot be called a remake any more anyway.

Why would you make a remake of 4400, if "The Manifest" is already a copy / heavily inspired by the old 4400.

Why not make a new fresh story without reusing the franchise? The result would still be bad, but at least without the disappointed fans.

And why reuse the franchise if the plot is so divergent from the original from the start?

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.

So I read the synopsis about the show and loved it then saw the rating which is not so good and after some search, I arrived at the 2004 version of this show, watched the First Season in a night and I fell in love.

But then I decided to give this one a chance and that reminded of that time I ate a whole back of sweets and it gave me sugar rush... Only this time it is Cringerush.

I am neither white nor black nor American to begin with so I am not biased here... but what is wrong with this race obsession? People this is 2022, be a little bit progressive. It is not about the color of your skin anymore in most parts of the civilized world.

The agenda it is pushing is not even neutral. If I don't know what Woke is then I would call this Afrocentric.

And what is with white people being dushbags around every corner?

Synopsis: A ... the only thing good Writing: D ... doesn't make sense Acting: C ... can't complain

Why did they disgrace the original?