This would be great news if the show was better:
Maybe I'll give "Event" another chance. After three episodes I decided this was not just nonsense, or confusing nonsense, or unbelievable nonsense, but irritating nonsense. The main reason is the "hero," who is played by Jason Ritter as a a stammering beta male who somehow summons his inner alpha to fight a shadowy conspiracy, and is also a superhacker who can get into FBI servers by hiding in the trunk of a car and finding the Big Computer Room, which of course is very dark, but full of places where you can plug in a laptop and type quickly until you're "in." Also, there are aliens who look just like us, but they live longer and are probably noble except for the ones trying to do bad things.
Here's the problem: you don't know if the event has already happened. Was it the crash of the alien ship? The stealing of the airplane? The Whatever it is, you know the show will end with a cliffhanger, like last season's "Flash Forward," which wasn't renewed and left everyone wondering what happened next, until they realized that they didn't particularly care.
Everyone's trying to make the next "Lost." No one knows how. So it'll be cop shows and Real Housewives and Glee knockoffs as far as the eye can see, until they stumble on an idea that works.
