The Event season premiere from NBC confused me as the premiere episode came hurtling at me. The marketing for the new TV series was superb and was in-line with the feel of the episode, and I presume, the series. NBC has been doing its homework. When you want to succeed, you model yourself after someone you respect, who is also successful. While watching The Event, I couldn’t help thinking of Flash Forward and Lost.
There was an underlying event that was taking place in the present and yet we jumped around in time to develop some background for each character and situation. But the time leaps weren’t consistent. 29 minutes, 3 weeks, 3 months or something like that and was nearly confusing. I had to focus. Hard. It hurt! They had 5 time jumps in the first 4 minutes I think! But if you made it past the first half-hour, the 2nd half hour started to piece it all together.
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