Mrs. Intergalactic Gladiator (who actually kept her maiden name, stating "like hell I am going to take that surname) and I finally worked our way through season 4 of The 4400. We’ve been watching this show on and off for the past few years and it’s one of those things that has been in our Netflix queue for all this time that we’ve periodically gone back to while waiting for something we’d rather watch become available. We’ve barely paid attention to seasons 3 and 4 while it was on, even though we mostly enjoyed the first two seasons. That show just got bogged down in its own morass of a story.
But there were a few positives. In the first couple of seasons, they dealt with the returning 4400 characters and how they’d fit into the present. Additionally, the returnees came back with a power and it seemed like it was designed that they were to fix the little things here and there to avert a future catastrophe. I liked the two leads at NTAC and many of the returnees were intriguing like Mahershala Ali’s Richard Tyler. On top of that, how can you not enjoy watching Jeffery Combs and Garret Dillahunt?
But I never liked Billy Campbell as Jordan Collier. Wait, his initials are JC and he came back from the dead? I see what they did there… The actors playing the cousins Shawn and Kyle didn’t really have enough presence, imo. And then they made a toddler into a young adult and set her up to get married. Ew. Oh and there’s a conspiracy from the future. Meh. And the main good guy gets an evil dude from the future implanted in him so he does stupid TV evil things like running away from the good guys into a big box store. Ok. And they killed off the best character ever, Curtis Peck.
Yeah, so it was a mildly amusing ride, but I’m glad it’s over.
In the meantime, the wife and I are 3/4s of the way through the first season of Hell on Wheels. Now that’s a good show. Please don’t tell me people from the future are influencing the construction of the Union Pacific Railroad.