CW’s new reboot of USA’s The 4400 (2004-2007), now simply referred to as 4400, added nothing revolutionary to the previous, besides some woke updates like a lesbian couple, BLM anti-police attitudes, and a shout-out to the late Ruth Bader Ginsburg.
The primary episode, “Previous is Prologue,” premiered on Monday, October 25. The premise of the present is that 4400 individuals who mysteriously disappeared at totally different occasions up to now all reappear all of the sudden with out rationalization and no reminiscence of what occurred. They’re being held in a resort because the U.S. authorities tries to piece collectively the thriller.
One lady, Shanice (Brittany Adebumola), a black mom who disappeared shortly after her child was born, flashes again to when she first met her husband, a white man named Logan (Cory Jeacoma), at an anti-war rally within the early aughts. Shanice was pushed right into a white police officer and the police officer took an aggressive stance grabbing his billy membership.
Protesters: No blood for oil! No blood for oil!
Logan: Hey, do not put your arms on her!
Logan: She was pushed. You can see that.
Police Officer: Watch yourselves.
Logan: You all proper?
Shanice: Oh, I am effective. It is that man who wasn’t raised proper!
Logan: I do know, proper? I do not know the way dad and mom let their children exit on this planet and deal with individuals like that.
Shanice: This appears to be a sample amongst individuals who look rather a lot such as you.
Logan: Truthful.
One other little bit of Hollywood dialogue by which white males are presupposed to agree with hating themselves. Logan goes on to this point and marry this lady who judges him hostilely by the colour of his pores and skin.
All through the premiere, white cops are proven as aggressive, notably in the direction of black characters. The episode pushes the Black Lives Matter narrative that life isn’t any higher for black Individuals immediately than within the pre-Civil Rights period.
The truth is, Claudette (Jaye Ladymore), a black lady from the Nineteen Fifties, bemoans the supposed lack of change.
Claudette: All this discuss concerning the future. You realize, my husband and I’ve been jailed and worse for organizing the vote for Negroes. If it was actually 2021, I might have hoped we would made extra progress. (Exhales) That it would not really feel the identical.
When not pretending that their has been no Civil Rights progress for black Individuals in over 60 years, the present presents the required pandering to Ruth Bader Ginsburg, the late Supreme Courtroom Justice that Hollywood weirdly worships. Hollywood persistently acts like Ginsburg is the one lady to have ever been on the U.S. Supreme Courtroom.
When Shanice, who’s a lawyer, is mistaken for a secretary by a person from the Nineteen Twenties, Shanice replies, “Excuse me? You didn’t simply say that in Ruth Bader Ginsburg’s America.” (Shanice will not be but conscious that Ginsburg has died.) Any individual please inform Hollywood writers that Sandra Day O’Connor was truly the primary feminine U.S. Supreme Courtroom justice. O’Connor literally was asked to be a secretary when she first applied for a job as a lawyer. For the left, solely sure glass ceilings matter.
Hollywood seems unable to create unique scripts anymore, as an alternative creating predictable woke reboots of previous collection. You’ll be able to skip this newest unimaginative “reimagining” of a as soon as unique concept.
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