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      • The four-hour miniseries about a mysterious plague is light on moving personal drama and heavy on complicated science theories involving bacteria, binary codes and worm holes. Unfortunately, it is short on suspense until the final 30 minutes.
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  2. Sep 7, 2024 · The Andromeda Strain -- New York Magazine TV Review - Nymag. This mini-series actually improves on the original 1969 Michael Crichton sci-fi non-thriller, which spent too much time in a fab lab...

  3. The Andromeda Strain: With Benjamin Bratt, Christa Miller, Louis Ferreira, Ricky Schroder. A crack team of top scientists work feverishly in a secret, state-of-the-art laboratory to discover what has killed the citizens of a small town and learn how this deadly contagion can be stopped.

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    • 2008-05-26
    • Drama, Mystery, Sci-Fi
    • 44
  4. The Andromeda Strain is a 2008 science fiction miniseries, based on the 1969 novel of the same name written by Michael Crichton about a team of scientists who investigate a deadly disease of extraterrestrial origin. The miniseries is a "reimagining" of the original novel rather than an adaptation.

  5. The Andromeda Strain is a 1969 novel by American writer Michael Crichton, his first novel under his own name and his sixth novel overall. It documents the outbreak of a deadly extraterrestrial microorganism in Arizona and the team of scientists investigating it.

    • Michael Crichton
    • 1969
  6. Although its urgent subject matter warrants less a deliberate pace, The Andromeda Strain brings Michael Crichton's techno-thriller to the big screen with striking intelligence and an engrossing...

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    • Robert Wise
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    • Arthur Hill
  7. May 11, 2008 · The Andromeda Strain - Metacritic. Summary Based on the celebrated Michael Crichton novel, this sci-fi mini-series boasts an all-star cast. A deadly virus threatens the Earth's population unless a team of scientists can find a cure in time.

  8. The Andromeda Strain is very tautly written, thrilling and even educational! Crichton is very good at explaining scientific details without dumping the info in huge, incomprehensible blocks. If you are looking for lyricism and deep character development you had better look elsewhere.