The Hot Zone - Season 1 (2019)
Alternative title: The Hot Zone: Ebola
IMDb score:
7,3 (10.496)
Episodes: 6
Playing time: 6 hour
Developed by: Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders, Jeff Vintar, Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders and Jeff Vintar
Stars: Julianna Margulies, James D'Arcy and Noah Emmerich
Origin:
United States
Releasedate: Monday 27 May 2019
First aired on: National Geographic (Nederland)
This season is not available on US streaming services.
Actors and Actresses
Matthew Ryker
Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax
Bruce Ivins
Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax
Frank Mays
Wade Carter
Ed Copak
Trevor Rhodes
Bruce Domanski
Walter Humbolt
Capt. Kyle Orman
Peter Jahrling
Ben Gellis
Vernon Tucker
Jody Hall
Reviews & comments
james_cameron_mm
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- 225 messages
- 409 votes
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.
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Left4Dead
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- 3240 messages
- 3691 votes
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.
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