"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.

I desperately wanted to love The Event. Before ever watching the show I developed very high hopes after reading vague synoposis' of the shows premise and plot, and it really sounded like it could be the best show in some time. I bought the Blu-Ray set without ever watching it, something that I have never done before, instead I would normally elect to download the first two or three episodes to see if it's worth the watch. Perhaps that would have been a better course of action.Despite a very good first episode, and enough good qualities to make me watch the whole series, it ended up a relative disappointment compared to my hopes and expectations. There are two issues with the show which I will cover in the next two paragraphs, and it's a shame because they betray the considerable number of good qualities the show had to offer.The portrayal and story arc of "Sophia's People" is the main issue with the show and essentially shattered the high hopes I had built up for the show. I wasn't necessarily demanding "little green men", but I had hoped that the antagonists from another planet would be at least slightly unique and otherworldly. The budget was clearly there, as evidenced with the fantastic visuals and camera work in general, so they could have created what I would consider to be "aliens", but they went the cheap, uninteresting and downright boring route of having them look physically the same as humans. The fact is there is absolutely nothing of intrigue about "Sophia's People". No amazing powers, no physical differences. Only a minor difference in their blood compared to humans. I wanted aliens and got a lazy excuse for "extra terrestrials".Perhaps they could have salvaged something had the acting not been so poor from the lead antagonist herself - Sophia - and also Thomas, who was also a huge disappointment, both from a character standpoint and an acting standpoint. Perhaps they could have done better with a more interesting script in front of them, but ultimately this wasn't the case.In addition to the two glaringly bad acting performances, to a much lesser extent - the script in general was not nearly as intelligent and succinct as it needed to be. When the show revolves around geography, biology, government intricacies and conspiracies, the dialogue needs to make the viewer feel like they need to follow carefully for fear of becoming lost in the shows many layers. My first episode watching The Wire made me feel like a complete idiot because I struggled to understand the complex nature of the show. I wanted The Event to be as layered and subtle as that, ala The X Files - a show which, frankly, I HOPED that would rip off, but it ended up being far from it. The dialogue for The Event appears "dumbed down" as if they are trying to appeal to viewers who have never heard of UFO's or the the aforementioned conspiracies.It wasn't all bad, obviously. When you look at the plot on paper it is fine. The acting, aside from the two mentioned, is good. Željko Ivanek deserves notable praise for his portrayal of Blake Sterling as does Bill Smitrovich for his portrayal of Raymond Jarvis. The camera-work is very good with some very nice special effects. I watched all 22 episodes in the span of approximately four weeks. It became a lot less fun after the second episode but I wanted to keep going in quick succession because there were enough good qualities about the show to potentially make it a hit. Sadly it wasn't the case. I've focused mainly on the negatives but my rating of 6 will hopefully underline that it WAS worth watching and that I DO recommend it to other fans of the genre. However, I can't promise that you won't be left feeling disappointed and that it fell short of expectations.

I really do enjoyed the flashbacks which helped to put the puzzle together in the first few episodes. My girlfriend said it's too complicated, but it's obviously not overcomplicated. You just have to watch it carefully to not miss a second from the plot.I strongly hope that the writer of the series will find a new home for this title, because people all over the world try to claim for the 2nd season. In Hungary, there is a phrase for it: "Pénz beszél, kutya ugat." translated= "Money talks, dogs are barking." It means, only profit matters :(This title obviously has a great potential in the story, I'm sad that I can't see it finished. There are many open questions, like who are the protectors (group of protective angels)?, or how the new breed managed to live on the earth first before us!?, is truly the president's wife a new breed?, etc. Interesting to say at least and last :)I wanted to say some about the casting: The actors are great, honestly, mostly all of them. My personal favourites are Mr. Lee (gov. agent) and Blake (the director of the CIA) as it's absolutely awesome to see, how their character evolve during the episodes.

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.