Season 1 – The Hot Zone

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Ares 4 The Hot Zone source material is amazing, but the screenplay is so MELODRAMATIC, LIKE WTF!!! The Hot Zone itself is PG-13 to its core, but it would have been 10 TIMES BETTER if HBO or Showtime or Netflix or Uwe Boll or ANYONE ELSE had made this film. National Geographic just isn't cut out for this type of storytelling. Rated 0.5/5 Stars •  Rated 0.5 out of 5 stars 03/17/25 Full Review Jay D I couldn't get past the first two episodes. The way the scientist-like characters behave in the lab - smelling flasks of suspected viruses, the random exposure to the injured hand in the BSL4 lab and how she was somehow miraculously cleared in 15 minutes is just insulting to this virologist. If the writers put so little effort into the most obvious details I can only imagine how the rest of the plot might unfold. Not worth my time. Rated 1.5/5 Stars •  Rated 1.5 out of 5 stars 02/21/25 Full Review Jed L A prescient pandemic story a year or so before Covid-19. At the end, the question was, "Are we ready for the next one?" The answer in view of what happened with Covid-19; Absolutely NOT! And, now, u no hu is going to be a chief participant in our protections...que Dios nos proteca! Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 12/24/24 Full Review Audience Member It was everything I wanted to see in a miniseries about a real outbreak of a serious infectious disease in the USA and those who do and don't do the job of controlling it for our safety. Rated 5/5 Stars •  Rated 5 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Audience Member It is promissing at first, but then it boils into a melodrama where a basically good cast is forced to overact only to play out too many aspects that don't have much to do with the actual plot, other than to create melodramatic interactions that prolong the series. There should be enough human depression as it is in the basis for the plot, and even though it obviously also is to underline human relations leading to humane misconception, it becomes exaggerated to a degree that reminds more of a soap opera than a historical thriller. The result is stressful and poor direction, something not even brilliant actors like Liam Cunningham, Julianna Margulies and Noah Emmerich can save, The sequences from Africa work better, as the drama there displays in a more natural fashion, Why Tropher Grace in any case was chosen for this series is a mystery. He might have another style of acting to his repertoire, but the character he uses here has long since been wasted in the 70's Show. And where did they find that silly wig? The total is entertaining enough, and even factually interesting to a degree, but as a total a good potential is spoiled, Regardless. the general message about the dangers of virus epidemics is clear, but the timing with The Hot Spot was perhaps too good, or this essense of the series has been outshined by Covid 19. However, the message would be a much stronger manifest with a well made documentary, and not yet another drama based on real events, where it's more essential to create conflicts and eventualities in the screenplay than to recollect history. Rated 2/5 Stars •  Rated 2 out of 5 stars 01/09/23 Full Review Geancarlo C The hot zone es una buena serie. Rated 3.5/5 Stars •  Rated 3.5 out of 5 stars 07/19/20 Full Review Read all reviews

The Hot Zone — Season 1

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