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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ASb4aL2nrEI Containment is an American miniseries, based on the Belgian TV series Cordon. The show was officially ordered as a series by The CW on May 7, 2015, and debuted on April 19, 2016. The series follows an epidemic that breaks out in Atlanta, leaving the large city quarantined and those stuck on the inside fighting for their lives. Missed the pilot episode and still curious? Watch it here: http://www.cwtv.com/shows/containment/pilot/?play=9b5bfa64-43e9-4126-bc48-4c847832369e My opinion after watching it: meh. I like that it's not another zombie flick and there's some realism to a deadly virus outbreak. There are many protagonists who are pretty much there to take you to the different aspects of the city-wide quarantine, but by the end of the episode I didn't really care much for them, at least not yet. Perhaps if there were less I would think it was better. There are already two who are showing a romantic interest, but I think I wanted to get to know them a little bit more than what was squeezed into the pilot episode. The effects that the virus does to people is done pretty well. All in all I think I'll keep watching it and see where this goes
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# ? Apr 21, 2016 10:05 |
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# ? Mar 29, 2024 12:55 |
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I'll give it a couple episodes. It is refreshing to see an outbreak show that isn't about zombies, but it also didn't really pull me in.
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# ? Apr 21, 2016 18:58 |
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To be honest, I find it hard to watch these shows because they are either hyper efficient (as they were here) or radically incompetent (Blacklist). The doctor develops "symptoms" 16 hours after exposure and they: 1) immediately recognise that it is something super serious 2) immediately realise that it is the Syrian refugee 3) initiate contract tracing and round up all known contacts within 8 hours From my experiences with this kind of stuff, with no prior alerts of a superbug, I just don't see any of this happening before there are death counts or a serious amount of hospital admissions. Also, declaring a mortality rate of 100% after the first three (?) cases died??? I did appreciate it when they went to the Syrians house and he charged at the EIS guy and the policeman, and the EIS guy dived out of the way and was like "gently caress this poo poo, I'm not going to let him touch me, so I don't know how we are going to bring him in against his will". That was realistic at least!
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# ? Apr 21, 2016 21:37 |
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Also a person with influenza is contagious before symptoms develop, so god knows how many people the doctor actually had contact with??
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# ? Apr 21, 2016 21:39 |
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The Major reminds me of Dave Chappelle in the same disconcerting way that the son in FTWD reminds me of Johnny Depp to the point it takes me out of it because I'm waiting for the joke. Otherwise it's holding my interest.
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# ? Apr 22, 2016 01:33 |
I liked it. I mean, it had pilot-itis where it's throwing characters at us, telling us/showing us their personalities and it's a bit of a mess, plus Claudia Black has blonde hair ( ). But...I enjoyed it enough to tune in next week and see what else it has.
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# ? Apr 23, 2016 08:42 |
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My only complaint is that they didn't give any indication whatsoever as to the range of contagion. 2 to 3 feet? 10 to 15 feet? 5 to 7 feet?
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# ? Apr 23, 2016 09:30 |
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Better or worse than the pilot of iZombie, CW's best show?
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# ? Apr 23, 2016 10:20 |
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this show isn't going to build a fan base like iZombie, that's for sure. I think there's been more misses than hits when it comes to American remakes of foreign TV shows, so I'm watching this with lowered expectations.
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# ? Apr 23, 2016 10:46 |
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I enjoyed the first episode but I really don't want this to become, RARGH BIG BAD GOVERNMENT CAN'T DO NOTHIN' RIGHT.
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# ? Apr 23, 2016 14:08 |
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Slamhound posted:My only complaint is that they didn't give any indication whatsoever as to the range of contagion. 2 to 3 feet? 10 to 15 feet? 5 to 7 feet? They said bodily fluids and that it was a modified form of influenza.
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# ? Apr 23, 2016 21:33 |
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Saw Claudia Black, so I'm all in. Fairly solid so far. I did have a huge issue with patient zero/bioterrorist being Syrian, because of course he is..
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# ? Apr 25, 2016 14:08 |
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It seems to me they would have rolled out the biohazard stuff significantly quicker than they did but vv what do I know. Seemed odd that, say, the guy attending patient zero wasn't a big rubber suit. Also, really unfortunate they went with the Syrian angle but 'ripped from the headlines' I guess.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 01:43 |
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I wanted this to be good but it seems like they set the show during the least interesting part of the outbreak, so it just turned into a police/hospital procedural with some extra characters thrown in for flavor. One episode pre-disaster? Sure. Set everyone up, show a little bit of everyone's life so we know where they came from. Two episodes? Okay, I mean, I guess they want us to empathize with what they lost and this lets us contrast their lives before everything went to poo poo with the present day where they're just trying to survive... But it looks like this pre-game poo poo is just going to keep rolling, forever teasing us with the lead up. Lots of characters I don't care about doing things that don't matter, while the virus hangs out in the background. I guess maybe I was wanting The Division: The TV show, and instead I got Grey's Anatomy: Outbreak.
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# ? Apr 26, 2016 10:12 |
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ugh, evil blogger stereotypes.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 02:29 |
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So... the reporter/blogger guy just gave the local cop grief because he's only being told what he needs to do by the health officials and not kept in the loop on the big picture stuff? That... seems like a really weird plot point.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 02:32 |
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CaptainCaveman posted:So... the reporter/blogger guy just gave the local cop grief because he's only being told what he needs to do by the health officials and not kept in the loop on the big picture stuff? That... seems like a really weird plot point. He watched Contagion and wants to be Jude Law.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 03:20 |
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CaptainCaveman posted:So... the reporter/blogger guy just gave the local cop grief because he's only being told what he needs to do by the health officials and not kept in the loop on the big picture stuff? That... seems like a really weird plot point. I also got a bit of a vibe that he thinks the government is flat out lying, and that he thinks the Syrian kid wasn't actually the source of the outbreak, the Doctor gave it to him, and they planted the evidence on the kid before the cops got to him.
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# ? Apr 27, 2016 05:18 |
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Watched eps 1 & 2, and was entertained. Haven't seen Cordon that is mentioned in the OP but Containment is similar to the Korean movie, Flu, from 2013.
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# ? May 3, 2016 18:44 |
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I love having Claudia Black on my tv again.
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# ? May 4, 2016 02:02 |
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Nice to humanize the evil blogger a bit.
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# ? May 4, 2016 02:12 |
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Am I the only person watching this?
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# ? May 11, 2016 02:11 |
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Nah, I'm still watching it, although I'm not sure why.
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# ? May 11, 2016 02:20 |
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CaptainCaveman posted:Nah, I'm still watching it, although I'm not sure why. I kinda think it's interesting and no completely reliant on end of the world scenarios.
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# ? May 11, 2016 02:30 |
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Mooseontheloose posted:Am I the only person watching this? I'm still watching it too. It's starting to grow on me, but man the first two or three episodes were bland. I'm still waiting for the big reveal when we find out this is all a sadistic science experiment.
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# ? May 11, 2016 11:27 |
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I find the conspiracy guy pretty annoying, we have seen no evidence of government conspiracies, and his antics have already gotten one person killed. The arguments used against him shouldn't be that the law allows it, but that he is putting the whole country at risk.
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# ? May 15, 2016 20:00 |
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I'm just glad it isn't fuckin' zombies.
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# ? May 15, 2016 22:30 |
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Last episode was pretty drat good.
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# ? May 17, 2016 08:48 |
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wormil posted:Last episode was pretty drat good. I am glad it's only one season though.
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# ? May 18, 2016 02:17 |
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Mooseontheloose posted:I am glad it's only one season though. I said that about 12 Monkeys. Edit, this week's episode wasn't so good, bunch of plot convenient moments. wormil fucked around with this message at 02:33 on May 19, 2016 |
# ? May 19, 2016 00:59 |
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It was two weeks before they started bringing food into the quarantine zone? That doesn't make any sense, they would've run out of food days before that
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# ? May 28, 2016 08:28 |
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No it was like six days.
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# ? May 28, 2016 08:41 |
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Mooseontheloose posted:Am I the only person watching this? I am but yeah I could take it or leave it.
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# ? May 28, 2016 09:25 |
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it isn't a great impressive show but I'm digging it for what it is, regardless of its flaws I'm getting some entertainment value out of it and that's what matters to me in the long run
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 01:28 |
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Last few episodes are dragging. I still look forward to it every week but not as much.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 06:09 |
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I watched the first few eps, but it seems fairly by the numbers. Meh, is the operative word.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 12:48 |
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The more “action packed” episode wasn’t as interesting as anything dealing with how people are dealing with the plague/cordon in previous ones. I’m still enjoying it, however I’m glad it’s a “limited series event.” It’ll conclude before it can wear out its welcome completely.
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# ? Jun 2, 2016 15:44 |
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I feel like there were six or seven good episodes that were padded to make 13 or however many there are. Some of it is decent drama but the action scenes were written by a hack. And the main cop dude is starting to wear thin, as a character he's all over the place.
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# ? Jun 24, 2016 18:52 |
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Which main cop dude, Erstatz Dave Chappelle, or the one behind the walls?
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# ? Jun 25, 2016 04:39 |
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Astroman posted:Which main cop dude, Erstatz Dave Chappelle Yeah him, Lex (I had to look up his character's name). I guess both guys can be considered main cop dudes although I think of Lex as THE main cop. I like the concept but it was done much better in the Korean, Flu. http://www.imdb.com/title/tt2351310/?ref_=fn_tt_tt_1
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