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Back when the 4400 aired on USA, I watched every episode. I had to know what was going to happen next for the 4400. So when I heard that The CW was bringing it back, I wasn’t sure what to think. I went in with low expectations, just in case, it was going to disappoint me like so many other remakes. Well, not only did I love it, I loved it more than the original.
Tonight at 9p, you will get to see why this remake is getting it so right.
The episode starts off with Shanice (Brittany Adebumola), a lawyer in 2005, getting ready to return to work after maternity leave. As she is driving to work, she is suddenly sucked up into the sky and then dropped back down 16 years in the future. She is not the only one; 4,399 other people from all wakes of life and different time periods are also mysteriously dropped down alongside her.
Since the government doesn’t want to freak people out, they bring them all to different shelters to find out who they are and what they are doing here now. I say now because as they do facial recognition on them, they find out they most of them are people that were reported missing as far back as 100 years ago.
Now, the government is exploring every theory, including that they might have been abducted by aliens. They also do not know if they should be afraid of these people who suddenly fell out of the sky.
Who are these people? Andre Davis (TL Thompson) is an African-American surgeon from the 1920a who served in WWI. He is going to take care of the injured like Claudette (Jaye Ladymore). She was part of the civil rights movement in Mississippi from the ’50s. She wants a World where she can be equal, and she just returned to a place that is more like it than she was alive.
Rev (Derrick A. King) is from the ’90s. He was a televangelist. LaDonna (Khailah Johnson) has only been missing for six years, so she is one of the few who understands today’s technology as she should because she was a reality star in her time. Mildred (Autumn Best) is a teen from the ’70s.
The only thing we know about Hayden (AMARR) is that he has been missing for a few decades. The only reason we only know that is because he doesn’t talk. However, he will say something at the end of the episode that will change everything.
You see, like the original, they will each have different powers. Tonight, we get a glimpse of some of them. However, we don’t know why they got them and what they are going to be used for?
There are so many questions, like why were they returned? Why these 4499 people? And so on.
But you are not supposed to answer all of those questions in the pilot. You have to answer them throughout the show’s, hopefully long, run.
Why do I like this reimagining better than the original? First off, these people seem to have more purpose to them than just being chosen. It doesn’t feel like they are random people off of the street.
Another thing I like better is that they weren’t just released back to their families or possible relatives. That is because they are all being held together. Therefore, we get to know them and see them interact with each other. I want to see them grow together. As scared as everyone is of them, they are also scared because they have no idea what happened to them and all the people they once knew.
To me, all of that is more important than the fact that they have powers. Not that I don’t like that aspect from the original show. I also wanted to get attached to the characters, and you get to do that with this version.
4400 is my favorite new drama of the season. Check it out to find out why you are going to love it as much as I do.
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