The 4400 (TV Series) Life Interrupted (2005) User Reviews

Life Interrupted (#2.6)

[ComedyFan2010 · 9/10 · 17 June 2012]

This episode was just...Wow! Seeing Tom somewhere in a different world in the beginning was already very interesting. Him looking up all the 4400 and realizing that they never left, going to see Maia and see her as an old grandma, that all almost gave me goosebumps.

The episode brought a lot of great thoughts. When Diana talks to Tom telling him that even if this isn't his real life he can make it, otherwise he will always sit in front of that door was greatly written and makes it understandable why he accepts his new life, I would have as well after such a speech! I must say that both actors did a great job, one can see the chemistry develop between them so fast that one really believes that they are happy together.

Them getting out of there after saying good bye to their "family" with their whole life disappearing behind them was a perfect scene and I loved how Tom got back into the real world by Diana smacking him on the face with a pencil.

Now I really wonder why did this happen? And also look forward to see how it will go on with him and Alana.

Great episode; could've easily been 2

[jmathers525 · 7/10 · 4 February 2018]

My title sums it up: the writing, acting, and delivery were all great. Before this episode, I considered The 4400 to be OK or Pretty Good - something to have on Netflix while I did other things (never saw the show before). But this one was great! The only thing that disappointed me was the progression; some scenes seemed so hastily done and some transitions were so abrupt that I feel like they could've (should've) taken their time and could've easily made it 2 10-star episodes rather than 1 8-star episode. Still: if you're new to the franchise, this episode won't disappoint.

The best episode so far

[nicofreezer · 9/10 · 21 February 2021]

A great episode of TV , very surprising, it manage to jeep the quality for 40 minutes, help to put this good show in another class. 8.5/10

One for the TNG fans

[dalefl · 7/10 · 26 February 2021]

Pretty well done episode involving alternate reality. But it wasn't hard to see the Trek elements that practically the entire episode was based upon. The first aha moment was the glass ceiling shattering into the identical patterns of Riker's drug induced visions of each wall coming down as he crawls back to his actual reality in the episode "Frame Of Mind". However, the entire rest of it was clearly just a rewrite of a really great episode - "The Inner Light". Both involve artificially created mind control realities that pretty much follow the same progressions. The subject 'awakens' to a reality that they don't recognize but which everyone else seems to think are perfectly normal. They both chalk it up to some kind of illness or injury that has clearly affected the memory of the protagonist. As time passes and the reality becomes more normal they begin to acclimate to it and accept it as truth. Families, wives, children, occupations... it's all there. Then, after giving themselves over to it completely, the rug gets pulled out and someone exposes the ruse along with the meanings and reasons for both and it's revealed that only a very short time has actually passed. It was so similar that one could almost call it an ode. Still, it was a pretty good entry.

Jumped the Shark

[dixonge · 1/10 · 5 March 2014]

So basically the writers of the show decided that Tom needed a love interest, but they didn't want to waste any time developing the relationship on screen, so they had Alana use her mental powers on Tom. In one day of 'real' time, one episode, they progressed through several years of relationship. Voila! Now they could talk like a normal couple. They had a history.

I have read a lot of people trying to justify this shark-jumping technique but I'm not buying it. It was the beginning of the end for me.

This show had such a promising premise. Looking back, it seems as if the writing was handed off to someone else early on. The show never followed through on the promise. Extremely disappointing...