SummaryWhen a highly infectious virus with no known cure appears at the Reston Monkey Facility in 1989, U.S. Army veterinarian Dr. Nancy Jaax (Julianna Margulies) works to stop it from spreading in this six-part miniseries based on Richard Preston's 1995 nonfiction book about Ebola.
Created By:Brian Peterson, Kelly Souders, Jeff Vintar, James V. Hart
The Hot Zone
Season 1 Premiere:
May 26, 2019
Metascore
Generally Favorable
69
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
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May 28, 2019
80
Having established that Margulies does a fine job leading “The Hot Zone,” neither she nor her impressive list of co-stars, including Liam Cunningham, Noah Emmerich and James D’Arcy, are given many opportunities to chew scenery. They don’t need to, because showrunners and executive producers Kelly Sounders and Brian Peterson built the script to make fear of infection the centerpiece.
May 1, 2019
80
Death is nothing new on television. But the grotesque hemorrhaging Ebola induces in its unlucky sufferers brings home the gravity of the story, and the courage of its players. ... “The Hot Zone” works best as an examination of process in precisely this way — showing what it takes to defeat an outbreak, both in Jaax’s storyline and in one told in flashback, as her mentor (“Game of Thrones’s” Liam Cunningham) attempts to find an Ebola survivor and thus to use his or her antibodies for a cure.
User score
Generally Favorable
6.3
55% Positive
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33% Mixed
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Jun 4, 2019
8
While not as phenomenal as Chernobyl, The Hot Zone is a good and compelling show to watch with solid acting.
May 23, 2019
75
Showrunners Kelly Souders and Brian Peterson, veterans of “Under the Dome” and “Smallville,” sprinkle in enough science to balance the crazier elements of “The Hot Zone,” Peak TV’s version of a summer disaster flick.
May 28, 2019
70
Though flawed, “The Hot Zone” is an effective, real-life horror story whose key points are hard to brush aside.
May 23, 2019
70
With apologies to King Kong, monkey business has never been scarier than in this tense if preachy six-part docudrama. [27 May - 9 Jun 2019, p.13]
May 28, 2019
60
What The Hot Zone does very well is focus its story on science and procedure. It can be hard to balance drama and accuracy when one of the series’ most key lines is “the antibodies are in the plasma!” but the series makes it work.
May 28, 2019
40
A tale of human vulnerability doesn’t seem to have any human beings present. The home-life stories that are meant to add emotional heft are distracting and brittle, and the characters are under-imagined.
Jun 1, 2019
0
If you want to see a great movie about infectious virus watch Outbreak, not this maudlin jump scare cgi garbage waste of 6 overlong episodes in a nothingburger television series. This was bad, no payoff, tons of filler, ridiculous waste of time. Miss it.
Production Company:
- 20th Television
- Fox 21 Television Studios
- Lynda Obst Productions
- Scott Free Productions
Initial Release Date:May 26, 2019
Number of seasons:2 Seasons
Rating:TV-14
Awards
Women's Image Network Awards
• 1 Win & 2 Nominations
Young Entertainer Awards
• 1 Nomination
Directors Guild of Canada
• 1 Nomination
