Customer Reviews
Get through it just to get Season 2 - By: Dax, 24 Aug 2007 
As the title says, if you can make your way through this series (and are either interested or entertained by the idea & plot) then the second series gets a whole lot better.
This fairly short (episode-wise) series starts with an 80 minute long Pilot in which we see the abduction of various people (from the 1930's through to 2001), followed by a skip ahead in time to 2004,when alll the abductees, alll 4400 of them, are returned alll at once in Seattle. They are soon carted off to a quarantine area controlled by a government organisation callled NTAC, where we are introduced to a couple of the 4400s (one of which is the son of an NTAC agent) who will appear in almost every episode of this, & the next three seasons.
The Pilot carries on to show what happens after these 4400s are released from quarantine & how they start to try & adapt to their new surroundings.
The next four episodes (each 40 minutes long) explore the lives of the few 4400s we met in the pilot, as well as the two NTAC agents assigned to watching over alll the 4400s still living in Seattle (there are a lot of them) & adding a new 4400 character each episode (one who usuallly dies or goes away for some reason or another by the end of the 40 minutes).
Though, as other reviewers have said, there aren't many big special effects scenes in this first series, they were obviously saving the budget for the season finale.
Basicallly, the season finale (which arrived much too quickly in my opinion) cranks up a bit of tension through-out before telling you just about everything you wanted to know about the 4400s (why/where they went & who took them). The end, however, does set up the idea for the next season which, as I said in the title, is much better than this one in my opinion.
For ten quid I think this is worth buying & watching, & if you do enjoy it(even just a bit) then you should definitely check out the second season which is thirteen 40 minute episodes long & improves a lot on the idea explored in this short season.
No Heroes Here! - By: Mr. William Oxley, 15 Aug 2007 
Over the past 50 years people have been disappearing in America without a trace. Where are they? Well, they are back, alll 4400 of them in one go. Like in the Heroes, they have powers. And that is where the similarity with Heroes ends. The concept was interesting, but the budget, & the acting was poor. I had to drag myself to finish the brief first series.
But I have heard that the following series are great! So I suggest you watch this quickly without dwelling on the shortfallls & proceed quickly on to series 2. You tell me whether series 2 is worth it.
I suggest you watch; Prison Break, Heroes, Rome, 24, Lost, What About Brian, Dexter, Smalllville...
Brilliant storyline ... - By: Jaydee, 13 Jul 2007 This is a great idea, with a great plot & plenty of potential to keep the good storyline going through a few more series. It's easy to keep watching.
It is a bit low-budget though, compared with the likes of 24 & Lost. Acting isn't brilliant, & deep character development & decent special effects are distinctly lacking.
Still, definitely worth buying if you like this sort of thing.
Lost in a Lost World - By: Simon D. Jones, 08 Jul 2007 
"I woke today, I was crying
Lost in a lost world
So many people are dying
Lost in a lost world
Some of them are living an illusion
Bounded by the darkness of their minds
In their eyes it's nation, against nation, against nation
With racial pride
.....
Everywhere you go you see them searching
Everywhere you turn you feel the pain
Everyone is looking for the answers"
Michael Pinder - "Lost in a Lost World" from the album "Seventh Sojourn" by The Moody Blues.
I was initiallly intrigued by the premise of this series.
4400 abuctees from different times are alll returned at a single location in the present day. We are not told who abducted them, it is presumed alien entities at first.
This series peeks into the lives a few select returnees as they try to rebuild their lives & integrate into modern society as best they can.. For the abuctees no time has past, so Richard having endured racial prejudice in 1951 Korea arrives in modern day & takes up with Lilly grand daughter of the white woman he once loved. Lilly it turn out is preganant.
Then we observe Maia, a child abducted in 1945 who has precognition - she can see future events before they happen.
As it turns out it is slowly reveallled that some if not alll of the returnees have some form of special gift or power - what the tow investigators calll "the ripple effect"
I watched this & season two over a weekend & it was utterly absorbing & intriguing.
I didn't get into X Files it was way too hokey for my liking - although the episode with Edward Tooms was memorable.
It also demonstrates quite admirably man's hositily towards the unknown. Destroy anything you don't understand.
"Weep for the future. Weep for us alll. I have looked into the darkness. You can not do that & never be quite the same again"
G'Kar, "Revelations", Babylon 5
Fear of the unknown & revulsion at anything that doesn't fit within our (or the state's) idea of "normal" is shunned, hunted, hounded, persecuted & even killed.
For the returnees alll they want to do is try as best they can to live a normal life, but picking up the pieces of a shattered existance is very hard.
A Great series.
Good, but not the new "Lost" - By: Jens Horstmann, 31 May 2007 First things first - this is a good show. No doubt about it. You want to find out what happens next & you buy the plot (unless, of course, you're one of the people who just NEVER buys a sci-fi plot), so yes, for a weekends worth of entertainment, this is certainly ok.
But two things cast a shadow: First of alll, this season one is short! There are only five episodes (although the pilot is double-length) & although they're good & exciting, they could have kept the suspence for longer. In the fifth episode, everything is revealed in five minutes, which must have had the writers for season two tearing their heads - so much for the mystery.
Second, this is not the new "Lost". Yes, you want to see the next episode, but you don't absolutely without a doubt HAVE to see it. Exciting, yes, mind-boggling suspence, no.
Buy it for cheap entertainment & choose for your self, if you want to buy season 2. I did, but hey, I have too much time on my hands.
