As the reappearance of 4,400 missing persons on a single day confounds the global community, federal agents on the case slowly discover the ways in which the victims have been changed.
If you're in a charitable mood, or indeed are an active connoisseur of B-grade science fiction, that may be enough. And there may be surprises ahead -- some revelation beyond expectation. I'm willing, even hoping, to be surprised.
Starting life as an X-Files-inspired mini-series, The 4400 transformed into a super powered soap with some strong episodes and a cracking storyline when it went into full production.
Shows about alien abduction are an acquired taste. 'The 4400' has the good sense to keep aliens and abduction abstract and concentrate on ordinary people struggling to understand the unexplainable.
The production reveals too little at too leisurely a pace and has the feel of being assembled on the cheap -- cutting corners some places, presumably, to load up on others.
