I'm Tivo Late

Thanks to TiVo I just watched The 4400 and The Dead Zone if it wasn't for TiVo I'd have to suffer through these shows at 100 degrees, 100 percent humidity and their thin plots.
The 4400:
Sherilyn Fenn played a returnee from October 1999 with the ability to grow killer spores from her hands when she is stressed. She is also mentally unstable. Everyone around her dies including birds. When confronted by Agent Tom and Diane she starts to spore-out and while Tom is trying to calm her down Diane shoots her dead.
Maia feeling used by her new aunt sets her up on a sports bet. Her new aunt bets a family ring and realizes she crushed Maia's spirit when yelling at her.
Kyle remembers everything about his blackouts and shooting Collier, meanwhile the Agency is closing in on the shooter.
The official website says that Lily was introducing daughters to each other carefully and slowly but I don't recall any of this I guess they're pushing it back.

The Dead Zone:
The funniest part was the first scene where Johnny Smith enters a bar walking arm in arm with Sarah Bannerman's as her husband Walt is behind them watching.
This copy of Eddie and the Cruisers has Sarah forcing Johnny to help find Darren Foldes, a young rocker, find his dead dad. Foldes is played by Ben Foster who made a return on Six Feet Under on the same night. Even his one of the not-so-dead-dad's most famous song is called Six Feet Under. Smith as usual makes everything alright by reuniting the lost family.

I don't like all the fact that the 4400 is becoming a freak of the week show. Almost half of the "featured" 4400's have died and they even mentioned some not featured have died. Why would people from the future put people back in time if they're going to die within the first year. Not to mention that the past can't be changed, but that's just the engineer in me making sense of TV.

On The Dead Zone they have dropped the secret society and doomsday storyline, most likely only until the season finale episodes. It's kinda of boring when they do regular episodes.