A passenger plane goes missing, a 20-something male is on the run from the FBI, this is just part of the adventure.I first saw this in 2017 on DVD. The DVD cover sort of promised science fiction and the series title, The Event, does sound like a sci-fi title. But it is more of an adventure/Lost-ish series instead. Not what I expected.The Event series begins so well.In fact, after watching the first two episodes you will think you have found a real gem of a series. By episode seven or eight I had some concerns that I was not going to make all the way through the 22 episodes. I gave up at episode ten.What kept me going for ten episodes is that I just wanted to see what happens next with young Sean Ritter (almost a younger version of Richard Kimble from The Fugitive TV series), but as the series moved on we also got swamped with dull sub-plots about boring aliens and a boring US president. It just got too much for me when all I wanted was to follow the lead character and nothing else.Perhaps others will enjoy this show more than me. Maybe I have just seen too many US adventure shows like this and I did not want to go down this road yet again. Maybe that was the problem I had with it?

"The Event" just isn't worth watching. The general concept is good although not original. The acting is OK. The general outline of the story works for me at least. Sadly the writing must be among the worst ever on prime time TV.An OK story line is driven forward only by torture, violence, blackmail and lies. There is also a love story not creating a single spark but endless pathetic scenes. Finally there are pointless switches back and forth in time making things less clear and directly boring with their predictability.Originality is totally lacking. Intelligence is not present. There is no consistency in abilities given to the respective characters. Getting through 22 episodes without a single original twist is almost an achievement by the writers.The first few episodes really are a nightmare. Then the show at least listened to relentless criticism and got rid of the worthless time jumps. Middle episodes are therefore somewhat better. However after giving a ray of hope "The event"'s first season ends on another low. The story lines ended in season 1 are pathetic in predictability and execution. And as "The event" got cancelled after season 1 we will never know how the open story lines end.That's just as well.

AWFUL. it couldn't be worse! i have registered on IMDb to leave a review about this series. Great cast but nothing more. really! the writers tried to make it interesting but they are failed. after episode 10 it become to be boring, predictable, stupid and dumb. Mr. president can not take any decent decision without been angry- no balls. aliens between security service. aliens with NO idea and any special ability- coming to the planet and getting angry that locals going with guns against them!!! no way!? the writers not knowing how to cover some mistakes, just switch to next moment, like we have to guess and fill the story in our mind. people getting seriously shut and alive next moment!! Everyone who got shut in this series end up using cane! guy who is looking by all police for the murder, suddenly gets in a private jet going to France! no way!!))) girl killer suddenly become to be an ex-CIA over the wine and french cheese!!??? after episode 15 it was more than enough of watching such a bad bad series..

I have suffered my way through the first two episodes of this series, which seemed to have a good premise behind it, but I found the first episode so utterly dreary (with time frames shifting around randomly or so it appeared and no plot per se, along with no real characters). Episode 2 was a little better in that a story at least began to unfold, but I found this just as unrewarding as the first - I read that others have found this an excellent series; each to their own, and this is purely my personal experience of this series. I will watch the remaining two episodes on the DVD and come to a more definitive conclusion then, but first impressions are far from positive for this series.