Home > The Hot Zone > Season 1 « TV Series Page The Hot Zone: Season 1 (2019) Want to see Episode List Season 1 The Hot Zone Critics Consensus An anxiety producing dramatization of real world events, The Hot Zone is a sobering reminder of exactly how deadly a disease can be. 89% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 28 76% Audience Score User Ratings: 34 NEW More Info × Close Want to see Super Reviewer Submit Super Reviewer Edit Review Episodes 1 Arrival Air date: May 27, 2019 Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax is a wife and mother of two with one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, handling the world's deadliest viruses. In 1989, she tests a sample and fears it may be in the deadliest category of viruses. More 2 Cell H Air date: May 27, 2019 More 3 Charlie Foxtrot Air date: May 28, 2019 Representatives from varying agencies disagree on how to handle Dr. Nancy Jaax's discovery, so she realizes there are few protocols in place for containing a deadly virus on the U.S. soil; and an employee at the monkey research facility falls ill. More 4 Expendable Air date: May 28, 2019 An employee at the monkey research facility falls ill, causing Dr. Nancy Jaax to fear the virus has spread to the human population; Jerry Jaax searches for a way to protect his wife; and Dr. Wade Carter is obsessed with exposing the dangers of Ebola. More 5 Quarantine Air date: May 29, 2019 Dr. Nancy Jaax and her team put their life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population. More 6 Hidden Air date: May 29, 2019 Dr. Nancy Jaax and her team put their life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population. More Tv Season Info Genre: Drama Network: National Geographic Premiere Date: May 27, 2019 Cast Julianna Margulies as Dr. Nancy Jaax Noah Emmerich as Lt. Col. Jerry Jaax Liam Cunningham as Wade Carter Topher Grace as Peter Jahrling James D'Arcy as Trevor Rhodes Paul James as Ben Gellis Nick Searcy as Frank Mays Robert Wisdom as Col. Vernon Tucker Robert Sean Leonard as Walter Humboldt Show More Cast News & Interviews for The Hot Zone: Season 1 2019 TV Premiere Dates Calendar 2019 TV Finale Dates Calendar View All The Hot Zone: Season 1 News Episodes 1 Arrival Air date: May 27, 2019 Lt. Col. Nancy Jaax is a wife and mother of two with one of the most dangerous jobs in the world, handling the world's deadliest viruses. In 1989, she tests a sample and fears it may be in the deadliest category of viruses. More 2 Cell H Air date: May 27, 2019 More 3 Charlie Foxtrot Air date: May 28, 2019 Representatives from varying agencies disagree on how to handle Dr. Nancy Jaax's discovery, so she realizes there are few protocols in place for containing a deadly virus on the U.S. soil; and an employee at the monkey research facility falls ill. More 4 Expendable Air date: May 28, 2019 An employee at the monkey research facility falls ill, causing Dr. Nancy Jaax to fear the virus has spread to the human population; Jerry Jaax searches for a way to protect his wife; and Dr. Wade Carter is obsessed with exposing the dangers of Ebola. More 5 Quarantine Air date: May 29, 2019 Dr. Nancy Jaax and her team put their life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population. More 6 Hidden Air date: May 29, 2019 Dr. Nancy Jaax and her team put their life on the line to head off an Ebola outbreak before it spread to the human population. More Critic Reviews for The Hot Zone Season 1 All Critics (28) | Top Critics (11) | Fresh (25) | Rotten (3) Even if "The Hot Zone" can't connect with characters as well as it educates the audience, this limited series is a scary, absorbing thriller you won't easily forget. May 31, 2019 | Rating: B | Full Review… Ben Travers indieWire Top Critic Although the series is riveting, highly bingeable and stars the fantastic Julianna Margulies and Liam Cunningham, it's got the same US-centric approach as the book. Jul 18, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Grethe Kemp City Press (South Africa) Hot Zone is still worth four and a half hours of your time as a primer on the Ebola virus. Jul 2, 2019 | Full Review… Adrian Hennigan Haaretz Harrowing drama about first U.S. Ebola outbreak is violent. Jun 11, 2019 | Rating: 4/5 | Full Review… Melissa Camacho Common Sense Media The science, while fascinating, is occasionally reduced to cheap scares. Jun 6, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Alison de Souza The Straits Times (Singapore) [The Hot Zone] opts instead for the tense grammar of a viral horror, with appalling events unfolding in a satisfyingly predictable fashion. Sep 11, 2019 | Full Review… Alistair McKay London Evening Standard Top Critic With apologies to King Kong, monkey business has never been scarier than in The Hot Zone. May 31, 2019 | Full Review… Matt Roush TV Insider The show doesn't get exceptionally gory, but the suggestion of certain horrors is enough. May 31, 2019 | Rating: 3/5 | Full Review… Allison Keene Collider Margulies brings admirable steel to her lead role, although attempts to draw out her character's domestic life at length don't always land. May 31, 2019 | Full Review… Daniel D'Addario Variety Top Critic The Hot Zone fails to generate any meaningful gravity or more than scattered substance, but it nails a mood of mounting paranoia and the visceral impact of a solid, jump-in-the-dark horror movie. May 31, 2019 | Full Review… Dan Fienberg Hollywood Reporter Top Critic View All Critic Reviews (28) Audience Reviews for The Hot Zone: Season 1 Jul 10, 2019 More shows like this please. Strong overall narrative and exposure to the silent pathogen that lurks in the darkness. Might lack in the quality but it is a hard hitting drama with solid actors. Brendan N Super Reviewer Aug 06, 2019 well-done film which may serve as a wake-up call William M Jul 08, 2019 Great performances, well casted. Not too heavy handed direction. Kind of wish we would have seen more of an outbreak, plot stayed extremely realistic. Mark B Jul 02, 2019 Really enjoyed The Hot Zone. Good cast. Jenny L Jul 01, 2019 I like it. Sure it ain't perfect, but definitely entertaining. Donald C Jun 23, 2019 I was expecting 16 episodes of people dying blood and stuff that I don't see on TV much!! I kind of had my hopes up too high. First couple episodes were great last few were not so good. :( Jose A Jun 14, 2019 I really liked it!! It came across as a powerful warning to us all!!! Richard H Jun 08, 2019 First 3 episodes were great. Last 3 were dull and plodding. Would have been great with a little editing. Paul M Jun 08, 2019 While the show was well done and well written it falls well short of the tension of it's source material. I have read the Hot Zone 5 times and every time it leaves a massive pit in my stomach. Covering numerous outbreaks that span a period of 30+ years it leaves nothing to the imagination. It builds the tension until it finally lands on American shores. However, when the book starts it shows you how devastating Ebola Zaire really is, it proves to the reader that it is indeed a monster. The tv show doesn't show this, it represented by boils on the skin and some bleeding. Granted, its NatGeo we're talking about, but the devastation was poorly represented. It shows it more as a menace and nuisance, not the monster it truly is. It simply doesn't build the tension it deserves. If Ebola Zaire truly landed in a well populated area it would devastate the population, and the show fails to grab that urgency. As in most cases, the book is way better. And if you want more tension and WTF moments, read Demons in the Freezer by the same author. You'll have a whole new respect for germs. Wicked L Jun 08, 2019 Tries to be tense, tries to be frightening, but totally fails at both. Never gets close to the sense of drama and dread that Chernobyl manages to nail perfectly. Trey W See all Audience reviews News & Features 150 Erotic Movies Ranked worst to best! 2019's Most Anticipated 63 movies coming up this year 200 Essential Movies Chosen by RT staff! 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