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The 4400 - The Complete Fourth Season

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The 4400 had a great premise - the human race has destroyed the world. The future has found a way of going back in time and selecting 4400 people and enhance them with an ability that will help save the world. But it turns out that the 4400 has good abilities and evil abilities. So, the US government sets up a new agency, NTAC to oversee these returnees.

Well that was the original concept but in Season 3, USA decided to give it a darker edge and the show was all over the place. But I am happy say that in the Season 4 that the show started to get back on track. But I am sad to say that there will be no Season 5!

So enjoy the following and final episodes:

The Wrath of Graham - A promicin teenager gets the ability to make everyone like him.

Fear Itself - A person can make your worst fears come true or least make you think that it is true.

Audrey Parker's Come and Gone - A woman acquires the ability to astra project herself. But when she is murdered while projecting, her astral projection tries to lead Tom and Diana to her murderer.

The Truth and Nothing but the Truth - A woman acquires the ability to force people to tell the truth but this could kill her. (Natasha Gregson Wagner - daughter of Natalie Wood and Robert Wagner - guests)

Try the Pie - Tom finds out that Kyle is positive and Kyle flees to Collier's Evanston, a town where everyone is promicin positive.

The Marked - A film director has the ability to make acturate pictures about real life consiracies. But his latest film The Marked is too hot.

Till We Have Built Jerusalem - Collier's followers move to Seattle and build Promise City.

No Exit - NTAC is in shut down with Tom, Diana, Megan, Shawn, Kyle, Jordan, Isabelle, Maia, PJ, Marco and Brady. But no one has any recollection of how they got there. And even worse, the building seems to have a deadly mind of its own.

Daddy's Little Girl - Richard kidnaps his daughter Isabelle in hopes of starting a new life with her.

One of Us - NTAC is pressured to bring in Richard and Isabelle. Burkoff develops a test to determine who will be able to take promicin. Tom has a dream about the 4400. (Look for 24's Penny Johnson Jerald)

Ghost in the Machine - A computer virus invades a company run by a suspected member of The Marked.

Tiny Machines - Isabelle works with Tom to get to Collier. Shawn tries to break out Kevin from Promise City.

The Great Leap Forward - Anyone who meets Danny becomes positive but this leads to many deaths including Danny's mother.

It's too bad that USA decide to end the series here and not give the show a chance to end itself.

Enjoy the final episodes.

I discovered this show during its 4th season, and was immediately hooked. I love the storyline, and the way they made the characters real and in-depth. I.e. I love the way not all those with powers do well...some suffer tragic ends.

I was really really happy to have found this show, and was looking forward to s5 but I guess that will never happen.

if you love character driven storylines, you should definitely consider this

I have to wonder if this show was cancelled because of the wild popularity of the show that directly ripped it off, i.e., Heroes. In my opinion, the WAY the 4400 came by their powers and the WHY of the whole thing is a way cooler storyline than Heroes - I like Heroes, but preferred the 4400. really wish it would've been given a chance to come to a REAL conclusion....

This is one show, like 'Firefly', that was canceled by bean-counters and not the lack of fans. I loved the show since early Season one.

And USA is NBC, so that'll tell you WHY the show was canceled - it was original and decidedly non-mainstream. And NBC can't have that.

The title of this review may make it sound like I hated this show... not so, I found it far more enjoyable than the glut of cheaply made "Reality" shows that are flooding the network programming. I cancelled my Cable after this show was cancelled, due to the irresponsible way networks have been cancelling show after show that I enjoy (Dead like me, Serenity, Angel, Wonderfalls, Joey, Dark angel... add infinitum)with no Viable conclusion. It's like a constant slap in the face to invest a couple years in a show just to have it cancelled because the writers have written themselves into a corner.
I still watch all the shows I like, I just wait until they're on DVD and rent them from Netflix. I can then watch the entire show's run in a couple weekends and I don't have to see a single commercial.
This show was just starting to get really poignant with the new story arcs they opened up, but when they just cancelled it for no reason. I turned to alternatives. I doubt that the networks care that I cancelled my cable, but hopefully enough people will get tired of the networks thumbing their noses at them and follow suit. I understand the need to cancel shows, just do it responsibly. The shows are the network's product. If I continually received imcomplete products from a store, I would no longer shop there. It doesn't have to be a good conclusion, just some closure... Joss Whedon understands this better than anyone. Fox prematurly cancelled Firefly, so Joss made a movie and tied almost everything up. The same thing happened with Stargate Sg-1. ((Networks, pay attention: If you want people to continue to buy your products, quit slapping your customers in the face!)) That's my rant... I leave the fight in your capable hands, because I no longer care what the networks do. Fight the good fight and cancel your cable.

I love the 4400. It is exciting and orginal. I still cannot beleive the idiots at USA canceled the show. I will miss the fantastic stories, writing and acting.
Watch and See for yourself-start with season one and you will be hooked.

The 4400 has had a bumpy ride. Canceled, given a reprieve, and then done to death by low ratings and the writer's strike, it hits its stride at last in the fourth and final season and delivers a satisfying send off. Season four is not without its problems, however.

This last season focuses on the crisis caused by the widespread dissemination of the Promicin shot. Anyone willing to risk their lives can have a 50/50 chance of receiving a power...but those that don't get a power, die. While NTAC struggles vainly to put the Promicin genie back in its bottle, Jordan Collier's movement transforms into a true cult of personality.

The plots in the fourth season finally move away a bit from the "mutant of the week" format that plagued earlier episodes. Unfortunately, there is one very silly plot arc about body snatchers from the future called the Marked that takes up a lot of screen time, and is almost completely uninteresting. Couldn't the writers have come up with better villains than this? Oh well. The real excitement in season 4 comes from watching Jordan Collier's machinations and his conflict with the more moderate Shawn Baldwin. Bill Campbell once again steals the show as Jordan Collier. He is both menacing and charming, and leaves viewers genuinely unsure of his intentions right up to the end of the show. Patrick Flueger also does a good job as a conflicted leader trying to walk a middle path. Other actors are fine, with no particular standouts.

Another gripe with the 4400 is the tendency of actors to quickly be written out of the show, with little explanation or aftermath for their departure. Billy Campbell took time off from the show to sail around the world in an earlier season, and the show suffered for it. The main character's wife disappears this season, and after an episode of moping, he's in bed with a new beautiful female lead. That was fast. Richard and Lily Tylor re-appear to almost no purpose late in the season, and are gone just as fast. Why bother bringing them back at all? They don't move the story forward.

Minor complaints aside, I enjoyed this last season. The show ends on an ambiguous note, and I hope a TV movie can be worked out to clear things up for fans.

It's a pet peeve of mine when watching television on DVD that sometimes clicking the "next" button not only skips the, "previously on" recap at the beginning of each episode, but also the beginning of the new episode. That doesn't happen here. I don't know who worked on putting the actual DVD together, but the chapters are logical, and easy to navigate. Thanks!

This series was 1 of the best on t.v.
The USA network made a bad mistake in ever letting it go from there lineup. Had it not been for the many and long interuptions in the storyline, this show could have gone on for many more seasons.
Its to bad that that a good show does not get the support from the network to keep the series moving at an even pace, as to always make the viewers wonder, is it coming back?, its cancelled!!, oh wait, no, here it comes again.
No wonder good shows with strong storylines get dropped. Viewers get tired of all the games and move on. I was faithful to the end with the series and will miss what could have been.

I was dissapointed to hear that this series was finished, but at least they got to finish it in a way that wasn't too hard to take. Often these type of series just end in a way that makes you feel ripped off, but the producers wrpped things up so that at least you could live with the end of the series.
i won't say what happens but if you enjoyed the other three, then definately get this, you won't be dissapointed.

Well written, well acted. Basically, 4400 abductees return in a ball of light, each with a special ability. The central tale revolves around a core group but each week there is a guest ability featured. There are many organizations trying to use the 4400 to its own ends so we have vilains from government, industry and family all trying to take advantage of the talents demonstrated by the returnees. Sometimes it's hard to keep track of who's good and who's bad (and even who's dead and who's alive).

This show draws from many sources but still manages to be unique and stand on its own. It has a bit of the Andromeda Strain, H.G. Wells, Biblical figures, but mostly Dr. Seuss's "The Sneetches". (The star bellied Sneetches had bellies with stars; the plain bellied Sneetches had none upon thar's"). That's basically the whole premise - Do you want a star or not? Is having a star better than not? This may sound simplistic but the writers weave episode after episode, season after season's stories around this age old question - Is what we want really best for us?
In my estimation, each season is quite equal so I'm using this review for each. Watch and enjoy....bg