On the surface the show is about the spread of Ebola, however the flavor here is the human heart and hard choices. The characters in the show are often faced with hard decisions, and even though they are all fighting a common enemy, they still manage to be at each other's throats, because of their contradicting ideas on how to control a crisis situation. The bad part is the runtime. The plot doesn't advance very quickly, and I think a 2 hour movie would have been enough to cover the story.

This was actually quite good. Very intense. Great acting.

I saw "The Hot Zone" after I saw HBO's "Chernobyl", and this does NOT compare well. Watching "The Hot Zone" I couldn't help but think to myself "I doubt that happened...I doubt that happened...I'm pretty sure that never happened." And so on. They tried to make everyone look inept and so many completely nuts things happened that I'm sure the writing room just made up 95% of it from scratch.