misty899 So I think this a time where I am rather baffled by reviews on IMDB. Glowing over-the-top fantastic ones vs let's burn the film then stir the ashes with a stick so it doesn't reanimate. I liked it. I'm a ridiculous mutitasker and will do online whatever with my phone while watching (read: listening to) shows. I put down the phone with this show. An English speaking show. The whole time. Granted, ever since I read The Stand by King at 11 yrs old, I've been fascinated with viral, end of the world sagas (with or without zombies) so the premise is one of my favorite genres in horror/thriller. Here's what you need to know. Yes, they take some damned liberties with the medical aspect. But, c'mon people, would you seriously watch a show where you have nothing but scientists testing unknown viral agents at the CDC? Y'know, a process that could take months or years with average looking doctors in lab coats?? What transpires after a 100% mortality rate virus reeks havoc thru a small portion of a city can happen. Quarantine can and has happened. Do they take dramatic license? Of course. It's FICTION. The acting? I did not see what some of the 1 star reviewers saw. The acting is fine, occasionally quite good. And, dear god, being a horror junkie, I've watched some seriously cringeworthy movies with the most stilted of scripts. That is not this series. It warrants a viewing. At least at the pilot. Not for you, move along. I will say there's no way this is less than 6 stars.

Tony Started watching this to see if it was any good and I got to say I'm hooked. I've read mixed reviews, but I found the characters likable and the story believable only partially. All the drama and life inside the containment is believable if you remember that it's not supposed to be a true story or a documentary on how a containment of an outbreak would really work. The cordon is a plot device that is there to let the show focus on the main characters relationships inside and outside the wall. Without it it would just be another world ending plague show. Yes the writers could have been a little more faithful the how real disease control works and better use of ppe and bio-hazard procedures, but it's not the main focus of the show. The focus is in the people and while I'm sure in the real world outside the wall people would be super protected from infection. We forget that the people inside the wall are largely unsupervised. People are careless when they think their safe. Even temporarily. People also tend to look after themselves or their group and only move to assist others after the crisis is over. So if you can get over the blatant lack of real quarantine procedures. The show evolves into a pretty good drama with death lurking around every corner

airsnob OK... I love the Apocalypse drama genre. I love the the world is coming to an end thing. .. such a great premise , it could be so good.. so instead of going for gritty realistic show, we get a cast that looks like they spend half their lives in the gym, staring at themselves in the mirror. I'm sorry but every single person cant be beautiful on a show... and with perfect cover bodies... it distracts from the realistic aspect.. it just seems so LA. To top it off the main lead cop, he is trying to be Denzel Washington so hard.. I even wondered if he was related to him, because he acts so much like him..I don't like that, when people cheese off other people .. do your own thing. I mean you would think that the director would have said something .. or is it Hollywood recycling program? But even worse than that is the writing... we have a soap opera not a horror drama. Lemme break it down for you. Muscle bound Chip and Dales dancer who is best friends with cop, calls cops girlfriend to talk about her relationship problems and it goes like this "you can't string him along like you do" "I know relationships aren't easy for you.. the face that you dumped me after five minutes proves my point. You cant string him along like you do. You guys are it, Hana , you guys have that thing that we all want and everyone knows it except you." Then girl goes " I know it" then chip and dales goes " then do a better job of showing it" OKAY?!? So how many dudes do you know talk like 13 year old girls? None? Exactly. Then to top it off girls boyfriend is talking to his best friend and then he says he is gonna break up with her.. his best friend goes " you gonna call yourself on that or am I? Cuz we both know that isn't happening" I'm like yeah.. we all wish men talked about women like this.. then later the chick in question is talking to her friend and her friend says " you know I get it... it's just like when we were growing up in the group homes and we had to push people away before they went away, you can't push this guy away. He is a great guy and you don't want to lose him." OK.. women can talk like that but the scene went on and women don't really waste time talking their friends into relationships and going g into childhood trauma to do it.. they usually listen to each other complain and totally support them in that..., To sum it up, this is adult Twillight. With a disease. Soap opera. Totally unrealistic characters and totally drama filled teenage drama with a disease hitting the city. The acting is really bad with some of the actors and OK with others .. the best actor by far is the pregnant chick. Anyways... I guess if you like soap opera drama and matinée hunks and babes and it's just vapid and it's superficial and even though its about a terrible disease drama its real pretty. Too pretty. With a elementary script that is totally unrealistic. They screwed this up trying to appeal to people , the show is just trying way too hard.

Mike Boyd I don't know how this got a rating of, currently, 7.2. There must be a lot of newbies who haven't watched TV before.This was quite boring and predictable.The people who gave it a 10 must be living in the outback of Australia. In fact, come to think of it, one of the 10's was from an Australian.It's the sort of show when all the people in charge, all the professional high level police and doctors suddenly lose their composure, their training and start shouting people at the tops of their voices. Yeah, that's gonna work.This story is so unlike real life it is not worth watching. All you do is get annoyed at the pathetic script.