- Network: National Geographic
- Series Premiere Date: Nov 28, 2021
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“The Hot Zone: Anthrax” is a formulaic look back at the anthrax scare with little profound or specific to say. Tony Goldwyn gives a flamboyant lesson in fear, but everything else is too much of a slog to get into.
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The Hot Zone: Anthrax is easy to inhale. It’s nothing that will revolutionize its medium or push its genre forward, but revisiting this history places the present in relief.
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It is meat-and-potatoes storytelling served as a tiny portion on an oversized platter. As in real life, the story peters out with an unsatisfying conclusion.
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The show is effective as a ripped-from-the-headlines re-creation of the Anthrax case, especially for viewers who don’t know much about it, but it has little to offer beyond that.
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These six episodes are barely informative and only marginally scary.
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Anthrax only truly comes alive when the focus turns to a more colorful microbiologist, Dr. Bruce Ivins (manic Tony Goldwyn). ... More effective as a late-blooming psychological thriller than as a routine whodunit. [22 Nov - 5 Dec 2021, p.8]