"The Event" Episode 1 Review
By:Jason Albrecht
Over here at SandwichJohnfilms we are going to start expanding into the world of Television and start to do reviews on a few shows that we find interesting and worth watching. And some that aren't.
I want to welcome Jason Albrecht to the Sandwich team. Here at SandwichJohnFilms no one gets payed or works for money, they do it because they have a passion for Movies, Television and Pop Culture. And I want to welcome him on board. Jason will be reviewing Television's for us on a weekly basis. These are shows that he has been watching for years and new shows that just started. Jason first review is of the highly anticipated NBC show The Event.
Please Note-Spolier Alert
I want to like this show. A lot. There is a void in my TV watching where Lost once stood. Granted Lost kind of lost it in the middle, but it picked back up and finished strong. I thought Flash Forward would take over this season, but it was canceled. I liked Flash Forward’s pilot a TON more than the pilot of The Event. With that being said, let’s hope The Event can be the new “Lost.” The story of The Event focuses on individual characters as they relate to the happenings of the show starting 11 days in the past. It cycles through characters retelling the same parts through their eyes. Jumping though time randomly back and forth and requiring you to pay attention. Blink for too long and you will be lost…
(spoiler)
What was “The Event?” It seems to be related to 97 people held in Alaska that the USA has imprisoned without regards to their rights. It also seems to be related to the mysterious teleportation of the airplane (it seemed more like some kind of transportation gate actually) being flown to assassinate the President as some kind of blackmail plot device with the pilot. Since the show is entitled The Event, I expect to have twists and misdirection all around and have no idea what actually is happening. I’d hate to figure it out in the first few episodes…
In the end, there was enough to bring me back. I have hope. Hope that this is the show that will spark my brain into action like Lost did.
The Event follows Sean Walker (Jason Ritter), a man who, while investigating the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend, Leila, begins to discover the biggest cover-up in U.S. history.
In the pilot episode, told primarily in flashbacks, Walker and his girlfriend were on a cruise where he planned to propose to her. Before he could get the chance, he returned from a snorkeling trip to find her not only missing, but with no evidence he or she had ever boarded the ship. It was later turned out Leila's mother was apparently murdered by intruders, and her sister was kidnapped. Scenes set later showed him attempting to hijack a plane which Leila's father is flying, apparently to prevent it from being used to assassinate President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood).
Other flashbacks showed that shortly after taking office Martinez had discovered the existence of Mount Inostranka, a secret detention facility in Alaska. He had proposed to close it, disclose its existence and free those held there, a group led by Sophia Maguire (Laura Innes), over the objections of advisors who had been withholding its existence from him. The attempt on his life, stopped when the hijacked airplane mysteriously disappeared into a hole in the space above it, took place just prior to a news conference at which he was going to announce this along with Sophia. She told him "they" had saved them, and when he asked who "they" were, said "I haven't told you everything".
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