Jon Patrick
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. eljko 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.
cbcburns3
Same as others I can't believe this never got another season its superb, great original story, superb acting and its so well made and put together, one of those series where you think i'll just watch 1 more episode, sci fi fans will love this, a bit like 24 the white house side of it is done so well, with the president and his no .1 played perfectly, it felt like i was watching a movie with a massive budget most of the time, the flashbacks that explain the backstory are cleverly done, top marks to the script writers and director/producers ,easy to see why this won award/nominations, be great so see it continued at some point, don't read to many reviews and spoil the story if you haven't seen it, just watch it as good as TV gets
Sasha Malyugina
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..
Kristin Versijp
In Belgium the show just got online, no one knows why, but I already paid to see the rest of the series because it was so good!!!! And now I go to IMDb to see when season 2 is coming up and to my surprise I see there probably isn't gonna be... To me that is a total clue why not! There definitely has to come a season 2! Way to good!!! So please if you ever read the reviews of this show and you can make a difference to it, begin season 2, and hopefully 3 and 4 as well, I was really shocked to find out that the last moment, where she said "home" is actually going to be the last picture of the show, it's just not right to end it like that....