4400

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.

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.

Not sure what was the motive behind this series and the story they are trying to tell . The original series well done with a great story right from the beginning. Not sure if I will make it through episode 2.

It takes like 10 minutes to realize this is garbage.

Rebooting a show that is from 2004 is already questionable, but missing every beat of and point of what made the original interesting takes a special kind of ignorance. Avoid at all costs, watch the orginal. The reboot is just about checking boxes - quality of writing is stone carving level and acting is medicore.

NO NO NO - if you can't improve or enhance the original show just stay away or rebooting something wortht watching.

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?