• 177.886 movies
  • 12.199 shows
  • 33.965 seasons
  • 646.886 actors
  • 9.369.835 votes
Avatar
Profile
 
banner banner

The Hot Zone (2019-2021)

2 seasons
3,48 22 votes

State: Ended

Genre: Drama

Origin: United States

Developed by: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders, Jeff Vintar, Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders and Jeff Vintar

Stars: Julianna Margulies, Daniel Dae Kim and James D'Arcy

IMDb score: 7,3 (10.278)

Releasedate: Monday 27 May 2019

US
UK

This TV Show is not available on US streaming services.

JustWatch

The Hot Zone plot

The Hot Zone is the terrifying true story of the origin of the Ebola virus, a highly contagious, deadly virus from the central African rainforest and its first arrival on American soil. In 1989, when this killer virus suddenly appears in chimpanzees in a science lab in the suburbs of Washington DC - a stone's throw from the White House - there is no known cure. A heroic US Army veteran, working with a secret military SWAT team, puts herself in danger as she tries to stop the virus from spreading among the human population.

logo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimagelogo tmdbimage

Seasons

Full Cast & Crew

Actors and actresses

Matthew Ryker

Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax

Bruce Ivins

Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax

Frank Mays

Trevor Rhodes

Bruce Domanski

Videos and trailers

All Media

Opinions about The Hot Zone

The reviews and comments below are selected at random from our extensive user contributions. If you want to write a review or post a comment yourself, you can do so on a specific season page.

user avatar

Left4Dead

  • 10 comments
  • 69 votes
Tuesday 4 January 2022
The Hot Zone season 1

Like so many series, it starts very strong. A realistic sketch of a course of events that took place around the turn of the 1980s and 1990s. The movie Outbreak has many landmarks with this series, based on actual events.

As fearful as it is, an outbreak is not a myth and can no longer be ignored during our phase of Corona in which we find ourselves today. Now another virus that has been responded to quickly, fortunately that people have learned something from the Sars epidemic and as a result a vaccine was almost already on the shelf. We'll get away with it this time.

And that's what the series shows very clearly in the first episodes, hard how we can screw up with each other by being naive about things. I was really glued to the tube and was really impressed. The switching between the here and now and the late 1970s in Africa were really well chosen to explain the story well.

Unfortunately, the series is once again carried away by deliberate drama and action. Something the good story didn't need at all in my eyes. It started so realistically, so directly in your face which made it so good. No, the series had to have a commercial slant again, such a shame.

And the latter was pretty much pushed through, especially in the last two episodes. A good cast (except Topher Grace, who I don't choose for this role at all) and a good direction, everything neatly done. Three stars for me because the poorly written, overprinted drama and action at the end of the season left me a bit disappointed. Unfortunately.

dutch flagTranslated from Dutch · View original
user avatar

james_cameron_mm

  • 225 comments
  • 409 votes
Sunday 1 March 2020
The Hot Zone season 1

Reasonable film adaptation of Richard Preston's book of the same name, about the origin of the Ebola virus in the central African rainforest and its first arrival on American soil in 1989. The flashbacks set in Africa are actually more interesting and, above all, more convincing than the events on an army base in the US. There things are repeatedly a bit unbelievable and dull, but the whole thing just stays on track. Solid playing from the always reliable Liam Cunningham and a woefully converted Julianna Margulies.

dutch flagTranslated from Dutch · View original