Network: The CW
Episodes: 13 (hour)
Seasons: One
TV show dates: April 19, 2016 — July 19, 2016
Series status: Cancelled
Performers include: David Gyasi, Christina Moses, Chris Wood, Kristen Gutoskie, Claudia Black, George Young, Hanna Mangan Lawrence, and Trevor St. John.
TV show description:
Based on the Belgian TV series Cordon, this dramatic series revolves around the breakout and aftermath of a deadly disease.
A mysterious and lethal epidemic breaks out in Atlanta so a wide reaching urban quarantine is quickly enforced. This forces those who are stuck on the inside to fight for their lives. Meanwhile, local and federal officials desperately search for a cure.
Trying to keep the peace on the streets is police officer Alex “Lex” Carnahan (David Gyasi), a man who has quickly risen through the ranks of the Atlanta Police Department. Lex’s job becomes even harder when he learns that his longtime girlfriend, Jana (Christina Moses), and his best friend, fellow officer Jake Riley (Chris Wood), are trapped within the cordoned area.
Also quarantined in viral ground zero is: 17 year-old Teresa (Hanna Mangan-Lawrence). She’s eight months pregnant and is now separated from her boyfriend on the other side.
Katie Frank (Kristen Gutoskie) is an elementary school teacher who’s now placed on lockdown with her entire class — including her young son.
Also inside is CDC researcher Dr. Victor Cannerts. He’s the doctor who initially made the controversial call to quarantine the area and is now racing to find a cure for the virus.
On the outside, Dr. Sabine Lommers (Claudia Black) is leading the government efforts to contain the outbreak, and has asked for Lex’s help in enforcing the cordon – which grows increasingly difficult as the public trust deteriorates.
And the public has reason to be wary, as journalist Leo (Trevor St. John) begins unraveling a conspiracy. He finds that something doesn’t add up in the official story being told.
Torn apart from their loved ones, the survivors trapped within the cordon are fighting against not only fatal infection, but also isolation, fear, and the disintegration of society around them. As they begin to gain each other’s trust, hope remains — on both sides of the cordon — and unlikely heroes begin to rise.
Episode #13 — Path to Paradise
With only one shot to take Dr. Lommers down for good, Lex carefully plans his next steps. Jana, Suzy, Teresa, and Xander make their dangerous escape out of the cordon, but unexpected road blocks threaten to destroy their chance of making it home. Inside the cordon, Dr. Cannerts and Jake make a breakthrough discovery following a risky experimental treatment. Finally, with time running out, Lex is forced to make a decision that will change his life forever.
First aired: July 19, 2016.
What do you think? Do you like the Containment TV show? Do you think it should have been cancelled or renewed for a second season?
Yes cancel this rubbish of a TV show. I watched it in Singapore via free-to-air domestic TV network. From Singapore, a country that experienced SARS outbreak and from a person who had followed the news of EBOLA epidemic. Why is US Govt. in the TV series behaving like an inexperienced and uneducated fool?
No governments involved in real-life happenings of SARS and EBOLA starved those quarantined. Poor ratings actually reflect intelligence of the USA viewers,
I very much doubt that the poor ratings reflected the intelligence of viewers. Perhaps people like you “in the know” might realize the unreality of certain aspects of a plot, but if genuine accuracy were always the criteria for success, very few shows would survive. TV usually requires the suspension of disbelief in one way or another, and I think the “lesson” present in an at times inaccurate plot can compensate by way of entertainment and insight. “Containment” still contains a lot of the latter in the behavior of its characters. Essentially, it’s an “apocalyptic” story contemplating a scary but… Read more »
Please stop canceled all the great shows on TV !! Containment is the best and certainly NEED to continue!!
Love this show can’t wait for it on Mondays
This is BS…why do they always cancel good shows?!!
How they start the 1st episode at day 13 than go and cancel after day 6. It’s a good show so far. The higher ups saw a “cdc conspiracy” about to be shown lol
This is a great show why don’t they give these shows a chance.
Keep this Show, Please!! Keep Containment!
Seeking advice from you fellow bingers – I recorded this series but is it worth watching if they cancelled it before all episodes had run? In other words, is it disappointingly meaningless or does it end on a horrid note like other cancelled shows these days (due to lack of consideration of the networks to their consuming public!)?? What do YOU recommend? Help!
I don’t know what the solution is. Pleas, threats, shame, name-calling…the networks seem impervious to it all. There is no room in their world-view for the feelings or commitments of any number of viewers as long as they fail to reach their ratings threshold. There is something increasingly sick in the TV industry, and I don’t know if it’s because of the wider competition in so many other broadcast mediums these days. Perhaps the old traditional network TV medium is slowly disintegrating, making things like wretched reality shows and a few ageing “old dependables” the networks’ way of “holding on”.… Read more »
But really, please keep the show airing, and renew for a 2nd season!
One season is enough. However I hope they wrap up the story line and give us a conclusion as to the real story behind the virus. There is something fishy and the CDC is hiding something.
1 season is enough. However I hope they do give us a conclusion to the story line
I hope your going to give it an ending before you take it off air completely. Are we going to find out what the teacher discovered. I HATE WHEN YOU PEOPLE PUT SHOWS ON AND NEVER GIVE US CLOSURE. ITS LOST IN SPACE AND GILLIGAN’S ISLAND EVERY TIME.
This may not be reality tv but how close to the truth can it be?? Please keep this show on the air….
Couldn’t have cancelled it soon enough. Poorly written and cookie cutter television.
Please renew Containment for season 2!
Love it!!