(TV REVIEW) The Event (2010-11)

I love a good idea and a cool concept, but the execution of that concept is often more important than the concept itself (most of the time). So you have a show like The Event. It starts out great. Has great reviews, great ratings, and then just falls off. Why? Because it just tries to do to much stuff to fast.

Storyline: When a man goes looking for his missing girlfriend, he stumbles upon a government conspiracy that is bigger than the president himself. -IMDB.com

I had to use the oversimplified description of the show because this show is way to convoluted to spill out in a simple paragraph. This show could have been great. It deals with Aliens, government conspiracies, gun fights, and gobs of other things that make for good TV...but this movie just couldn't get it right. Too many "twists" that didn't make sense and too many dead end stories that were never explained.

It's an interesting show that implodes on it's lack of continuity. It's watchable, but don't expect anything huge out of it.