"The Hot Zone" Arrival (TV Episode 2019) Poster

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8/10
Not accurate
dncorp28 May 2019
Without going into potentially Classified or Spoilers that is not how things were done, even before this, during Training at U.S.A.M.R.I.I.D. as a Biological Warfare Officer (Epidemiology). The Facilities were actually more modern 1981 than depicted as 1989, we used to joke that somebody watched too much 1971 The Andromeda Strain.

What is depicted is how careless Civilian Laboratories are, not applying "Sterile Procedures", after receiving "Samples".

During Training, "Concentrated Bleach is your Friend" as over 8 percent with a little dish washing soap added.

Even before the Irradiation of Food, most of our equipment (without Us inside) was irradiated, then incinerated, as to why we only wore adult diapers under our Total Agent Protective Suits ("Spacesuits").

My really stupid decisions would later get me involved as a U.S. Army Special Forces Officer with the Iran Iraq Wars, and CIA Operation Cyclone, and later as a Nuclear Accident Incident Response and Assistance (N.A.I.R.A.) Team Leader after the 1986 Chernobyl Disaster. And later getting involved with Chemical Munitions as a Chemical Munitions Officer, during U.S. Military Operation Golden Python and Operation Steel Box.

Prior to the Ebola Outbreak at Liberia, we were sent in as a Biological Accident Incident Response and Assistance (B.A.I.R.A.) Team by the U.S. Center for Disease Control (Commanded by a U.S. Military Officer, Medical Professional, so that C.D.C. has access to any U.S. National Security Assets Worldwide), to conduct Initial Contact Surveys, and the Medical Professionals of USAID, Doctors without Borders were not adequately equipped, as we wore Total Agent Protective Suits and "Rebreathers", the Civilians wore surgical masks and face shields so many got exposed and died. The lies spread were so obvious to Us as we measured vaporized Ebola out to 100 meters from exposed that were coughing. with our air samplers.

Length of time in Quarantine in Country in a small plastic bubble inside a tent with a camping toilet, 30 days. Everything we were fed had been irradiated to prevent cross contamination in the Event we showed symptoms, While known exposed USAID and Doctors without Borders Medical Personnel were fleeing back to the U.S. and got Lawyers involved claiming putting them into Quarantine for the required amount of time, was a Violation of their Constitutional Rights (that Nurse was going everywhere after returning from Liberia).
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6/10
Not bad but is the type of show you just gotta not see things or think too much
ertpecs30 May 2019
Like seriously, you're worried about some monkey carcasses thawing out on a drive, while you're in a parking lot of a store with ice machines outside. Now maybe I'm a genius but I think that if I needed to keep them frozen that I would get at least a few bags of said ice, but no, they just put them in the trunk and say f it. And then she tells him that he's gotta follow her and watch for drips. Now I know it's a 25 year old Oldsmobile or Buick pos so maybe the trunk is rusted out or something but a cars trunk is sealed up so if somethings leaking on the inside its not gonna come out unless you pull the plug(s) out of the spare tire well.
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6/10
We need to keep these monkeys cold.
jbisch-2793330 May 2019
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I had to laugh a little. Towards the end when Jaxx meets up with the monkey guy who has bags of monkeys in the trunk of her car, she gets upset because the monkeys are in plastic bags and not contained in coolers in ice. That means they need to rush to a site and get them on ice. While she is expressing her concern over that, you can see over her shoulder a sign that says "Market" and people filling up their cars with gas, so they really had ice and coolers just feet away for purchase. I know that's a little nitpicky. I actually gave the 6 out of ten because it was well enough acted I guess and an interesting story. Still had that cheesy cable channel feel to it. One of the signs of cheese is when they have the protagonist prove how smart they are by dialogue with others who are over the top stupid or antagonistic. The two parts that struck me was when Jaxx was introducing that soldier to level 4 and he was all "uhhhh, ummm, uhhhh". It's like they had to make him so scared and not professional to make her seem all the more confident. And then the Topher Grace character. They show signs of him knowing that there are risks like right after he smells what's in the beaker or when he stares at the beer glass that the waitress takes away, but he just still has to be obstinate for the sake of it.
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6/10
Arrival
bobcobb30126 August 2019
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This show does not have the most interesting premise, but it has a good cast and the way they are presenting the story gives me hope for this mini-series. We'll see how things play out, but just a so-so first episode in my book.
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3/10
Dumb Scientists
greg-helton-tx30 May 2019
Based on true events and a lot of stupidity. The story was written like the goal was to make the worst Lifetime movie ever. One minute Julianna Margulies is in her office and cutting on a sample and the next, she and the guy who doesn't know anything are going into LEVEL 4 quarantine with negative pressure so the microbes don't get out. But, no one is concerned about the contamination from the meatball dissection she did in her office. The photography is average and the editing makes a lot of bad calls. Lots of good actors in this but I can't stand the way they portray science.
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4/10
Arrival
Prismark1018 September 2019
In a parallel universe. In 1995, I watched a blockbuster movie called 'Crisis in a Hot Zone' starring Robert Redford and Jodie Foster. It was directed by Ridley Scott.

Unfortunately in this universe, script issues caused production delays and Warner Brothers rushed released the similar themed Outbreak. The result 'Crisis in a Hot Zone' was canned.

However Ridley Scott serving as Executive Producer has rebooted this as a television mini series.

The first episode had a cracking and shocking start. An ill man gets on a plane in Kenya in 1980. His body has hives and he is vomiting blood. When rushed into hospital, he throws up blood all over the doctor examining him. The next scene we see the doctor's blood in a tube and being put in the fridge of a biohazard laboratory. We can safely assume that both the man and the doctor died of Ebola, a super deadly virus.

Unfortunately when it moves to 1989, it is all downhill with clunky expository dialogue.

Dr Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) who is also a colonel works at a US army laboratory that stores some of the deadliest diseases in the world. When Nancy reassures her son that 'I work in one of the safest places in the world.' You know something will go wrong.

When Nancy goes to work to examine a diseased monkey organ that was dropped off from a nearby animal testing lab. She spills something on her Hazmat suit and we know she had a cut in her arm the day before. Oops.

Thankfully she seems to be alright but Nancy thinks that the animal testing lab have bought in the Ebola virus to American soil.

There is nothing in this episode that is a gamechanger. Maybe if it was a drama documentary it would had fared better. At six episodes I can sense The Hot Zone will lack urgency.
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