First, an admission: I just barely was able to get through Season 1; I could not stomach the thought of another episode, let alone three more seasons, of sophomoric trash. While the concept is interesting (4400 abductees returned after being gone for various lengths of time), the writing, directing, and acting all fall into the standard American pit of macho men, horny teenagers, super-sweet romanticism, and an occasional special effect or two (car chases, explosions, etc.). The "Homeland Security" officials act like immature cowboys, and the lead characters' conflicts of interest are way beyond believable even for government work. And then there's the gratuitous "music" - even lyrics on the screen for those who get the closed- captioned version - that actually detract from what little substance there is to the acting. My wish is that this series had been developed in Europe (preferably France or Sweden), and not the U.S. It doubtless would have been more realistic and less disappointing.

I will admit when I first started watching the show I was all into it. But this show is a manipulation of the book of Revelations in the bible. Revelations chapter 7 and 14 for none believers and people who just do not study the word will be misinformed about this. Isabelle is the anti Christ which is why she has abilities the 4400 (14400) are the ones that Jesus will bring home after the rapture The 144,000 is the first group to be sealed and protected from what is coming (Rev. 7:3-8). Revelation 14 describes them as those who were "redeemed from the earth" (14:4). John says "they have not defiled themselves" (verse 4). The 144,000 follow the Lamb wherever he goes and "no lie was found in their mouths" (verse 5).clearly this show is a manipulation of the truth as a believer I was deeply offended how they described collier as the messiah (Jesus) Like I said the show was good I'm not going to lie but what it was interpreting was that after the 144,000 are redeemed from the earth an explanation was that the earth was going to made better which isn't true more destruction is to come read the book of revelations.

The idea had a huge potential to be a very interesting sci-fi show, but they screwed it so bad... I couldn't watch past half of second episode of first season...the lead duo have no chemistry, they look like two employees at a DMV office rather than mystery solving partners!In the second season.. the lead female couldn't be more dumber... instead of leaving the Bailey dude alone... they shoot him for no reason!The other characters are way too much of a cliché...Its a pandering set of characters, none of them alive or involving.The writers should just go jump into a shark infested waters.

I just finished watching all 4 seasons on Netflix, and I have to say that S1 and 2 were really innovative and enjoyable Sci-Fi drama, with characters and stories you would care about. I also liked the idea behind the storyline.Unfortunately the original storyline was washed away by adding more and more esoteric and religious nonsense in S3 and S4 , which amounted in the praise of a new Jesus (Jordan Collier) with a cult like movement willing to sacrifice half of the population of the earth because of some book and visions, a way that was hardly questioned in the end (altough it ends on a cliffhanger),and was indeed portrayed as good.The whole mess started out when they added that rival group from the future trying to sabotage the 4400 with grown up Isabelle, instead of focusing on what really happens in the future (which was never made clear) and how the 4400 should prevent it, I mean set some milestones! By that time unfortunately a lot of plot holes started to emerge too, for example abducting Maia again and sending her further back into the past, or Tom committing "suicide" and being send back, Elena being abducted and send back further in the past too. I mean if it's just that easy to send everybody around in time and bring someone back from the dead into another dimension, what's the point of the 4400 anyway? Then everything goes, why not sending someone back to the ancient Romans and change course there, and if you don't succeed try again in the middle ages. ^^ They really should have focused more on the upcoming catastrophe in the future, on how and when it's going to start, how to prevent it.Another frustrating factor were the relationships of Tom and Diana in S3 and 4. I mean I appreciate the fact that they for one time didn't do the obvious and brought Diana and Tom together, but their relationships seemed random and meaningless to the storyline, even Tom and Elana, but especially Diana and Marco/ Ben.But the most upsetting part was the "let's bring god to earth" and "the solution for paradise is everybody on promicin" storyline. I guess looking back 2004-2007 was a time were evangelicals were on the rise in America and maybe that storyline reflects that a little bit, but it was unbearable to watch.The idea behind this whole storyline alone contradicts everything we learned throughout the first 2 seasons, and that is that people with abilities are not automatically better human beings than people without. Just like the regulars some of them used their powers for good, some of the for their own sake or fraud, and some of them to hurt and kill people. I mean even the abilities itself were not in every case designed to do good, some of them were (like healing), others just caused destruction, chaos or violence.That all was negated in S4 and especially in the finale, just do what some vision/ ability and an old book tells you (dumbest character of the series: Kyle) and give everybody an ability or let them die, because then you'll get heaven on earth, sure, no one out of billions of people will ever use an ability to kill somebody anymore, hallelujah, we are all reborn *facepalm*.When you start skipping some scenes while watching to get to the end you know something has been lost in S3 and S4, and that's what happened when I watched. I'd still recommend it though if I have to rate all 4 seasons together.