4400
I'm not sure if anybody out there in the cable TV ready world have had a chance to catch a new show on USA called
The 4400. It's an ok scifi show, I've enjoyed the first 3 episodes so far. A
reviewer on imdb.com hated it. Said it was poorly acted with terrible scripts. Well this is a made for cable tv show, which means low budget and scraping the bottom of the barallel for actors and script writers, so I try not to expect much from cable. However I thought the SciFi channel did a wonderful job with their Dune miniseries. Much better than David Lynch and his oversized movie budget could come up with. Anyway the 4400 is about 4400 people who were randomly “taken” by an unknown force starting in 1946 and continued up until today. Then overnight they all return to earth, with no memory of their “abduction” and not second older than when they were taken. However each of them are slowly discovering they have a unique special talent that was added to them. Like one guy could move super fast, another could cause local micro eathquakes, yet another could remove life or restore it by simple touch. Sort of X-men-ish but still it's enough to make a series out of -- each week we discover another of the 4400's powers and how it plays out. Of course the overriding question is “where were they this whole time and what happened to them?”. The Gilligan's Island conudrum, will they ever get off the island. However it does have that weird X-Files feel to it at times. No one has been able to step in and take over that weirdo tv show slot since XFiles exited TV a few years ago.