BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Aubrey Hackett While it is a pity that the story wasn't told with more visual finesse, this is trivial compared to our real-world problems. It takes a good movie to put that into perspective.

Sanjeev Waters A movie that not only functions as a solid scarefest but a razor-sharp satire.

Fleur Actress is magnificent and exudes a hypnotic screen presence in this affecting drama.

Chelsea G. As a longtime fan of The Vampire Diaries, I decided to give Julie Plec's new show, Containment, a chance. Sadly, this show is not nearly as well plotted as TVD.Containment, above all else, fails to be interesting. For a show about a disease outbreak compared to The Walking Dead, man is it boring. The characters were majorly underdeveloped. The plot is a mess.I guess I can't say it didn't make me care, as when one of the main characters, Katie, died unexpectedly, I cried...like quite a bit. I can safely say that I was not expecting this show, which I wasn't even invested in, to make me cry.Sadly, the show was not renewed, so it is left unresolved. I would have liked to see where it could have gone. The first season is watchable, but certainly not something I would put at the top of my list.

Randy Kilbourn This was an excellent show! The acting was really good for the most part, and the premise of the show is frighteningly possible in today's world. Perhaps that is why the executives decided to not renew the show for a 2nd (or more) season! Containment was a perfect example of a show that is about things that could actually happen, and the good and bad that can come out of such an event.It is sad that the network canceled this in favor of yet another poorly written superhero series!We are tired of being hit in the face with shows about comic books characters... can we get more programming for adults who don't live in their mother's basements??

J Bo Like a train wreck....but I just had to watch it through the end of the first season. Call me a glutton for punishment, but I am no quitter. I am all about "willing suspension of disbelief", but someone please consult a biologist to get a few salient facts about transmission of disease. THERE SIMPLY IS NO WAY DEAD BODIES ARE NOT STILL INFECTIOUS! And our hero cop without any personal protective equipment can just simply cremate them in the hospital incinerator. But all of the cops finally sent in to the cordon develop the disease despite having minimal contact with anyone on the inside. Sure a lone doctor in a hospital will find a cure for the disease with limited resources.I can be equally disillusioned by FEMA's mishandling of Hurricane Katrina in the real world, but there is no way this would have been a local event for more than 24 hours. The National Guard and FEMA would have been on the scene much earlier, and food dispensed much sooner. Yeah, just wait until people are starving and then let the gangs take over. Just like they quarantined the cops they could have quarantined the healthy and removed them from the area after the 48 hour containment didn't work out as planned. I could go on and on with the inconsistencies and still watched, but when you kill off one of the main protagonists, I can't. I thought for sure we were going to find out that the drug she was on was going to be the cure or at least protective against the virus. Sadly, no. sheesh! So, I'm done, after investing about 10 hours of my life in this drivel....I won't be returning for season 2.

draciron This is I am betting what happens when you take a good story and let network hacks get their hands on it. The concept of a lethal virus causing a quarantine would be really interesting. Of course loe and behold there's a government conspiracy, who'd expected that? Not even a trace of suspense so it's not a spoiler. They might as well have tattooed it on their foreheads. They should have named it Soap Opera with walls. The dram is hokey and seems forced. The casting is mostly sub par. The characters shallow at best and so predictable that you could write their entire story from the first 3 minutes of seeing them on screen. It is like the writers didn't even bother to rewrite other series and movies but plucked story lines word for word only changing the names. I love disaster movies and series along this vein. I even find entertainment in the many B flick incarnations, some of them are quite good actually despite a very low budget. This one falls flat in every possible respect and I finally gave up 4 or 5 episodes in, maybe it was 6. Not sure I couldn't really watch it after 3. I just kept episodes running hoping that it'd find it's way and it never did. No action to speak of and what does happen is so hokey that you might see it on a kid's show. No suspense because the writing is so clumsy and cliché that it's utterly predictable. Drama isn't my thing but it's so overdone and sickly sweet that even the drama fans hate it. The way people act defies explanation, and even when they finally get in character it's pretty cheesy. The show is so over the top PC that even PC fans probably lose their lunch watching it. Somebody wasted some really good camera work and a couple of the actors/actresses are pretty good or it'd be a 1 star effort.