The Event - What will you believe?

[Disguised]

NBC's new conspiracy theorist show premiering on NBC (9/8C) tonight! Looks decent, and might be just the replacement for Lost that I am looking for

Lost launched an entire mythology on the wings of an airplane disaster, and so did Fringe. Now comes new conspiracy thriller The Event, which also milks post-9/11 anxieties about terror in the sky for dramatic tension in its opening moments.

Debuting Monday at 10 p.m./9 p.m. Central on NBC, The Event tracks a chain of events that lead hero Sean Walker (played by Jason Ritter) to the pilot's cabin of a jet that is being steered for reasons to be explained by his fiancee's grim-faced father (Scott Patterson).

Last fall's similarly impressive opening salvo for FlashForward failed to sustain the series beyond a single season. Whether The Event survives or perishes, it will surely not be the last in a long line of conspiracy-themed TV dramas.

In the '90s, The X-Files masterfully exploited civilian paranoia about shadowy bureaucracies as series creator Chris Carter tapped into long-simmering suspicions that the U.S. government methodically conspires to withhold information about alien incursions.

But after 9/11, secretive governments and extraterrestrials suddenly seemed far less threatening than terrorists, not just in Hollywood but on the nation's streets. As reported in the The Washington Post's "Top Secret America" series, 1,271 government organizations and 1,931 private companies operating in about 10,000 U.S. locations dedicate themselves to surveillance or data analysis. Employed by 2010's bulked-up intelligence-industrial-complex, 854,000 people currently hold top-security clearances.
With all that cloak-and-dagger activity taking place in the real world, it's no wonder that paranoia, intelligence-gathering, privatized black ops and bureaucratic in-fighting have gained fresh currency as small-screen fodder.
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http://www.nbc.com/the-event/

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Event_(TV_series)

 

[ddrew]

I just want to know what the "event" is without having to actually watch the show.

I might check it out though

 

[Disguised]

I just want to know what the "event" is without having to actually watch the show.

I might check it out though

I know what you mean. Reminds me of when the matrix was released. What is the matrix? I swear I only went to see that movie to find out what the hell the matrix was.

 

[tonto]

ill give it a watch,

also fringe

 

[ddrew]

I thought it had already started actually.
But since tonight is the first episode I will check it out.

 

[resinryder]

"conspiracy-themed TV dramas"

Nope can't watch it. Got enough conspiracy themed shit keeping me looking through the window blinds now without worrying about what's gonna happen next week.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

I'll be watching.















resinryder

LOL

 

[mean mr.mustard]

It was a little different than I expected... it looks like I'm watching it again next time.

 

[ddrew]

Good enough that I will watch again next week.
I think the event is about aliens.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

I'm gonna wear my tinfoil hat.

 

[funkervogt]

TV is awful. And when i say that i mean it used to be good. This show sounds like one more mid-budget NBC abortion. Throw away your tv.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Turn on the charm dude.

 

[ddrew]

I'm gonna wear my tinfoil hat.

Everyone should be wearing one

 

[SpasticGramps]

I missed it the first show. I guess I'll set it to record and see what it's all about.

I watched one episode of Fringe. Man, that is a retarded show.

 

[ddrew]

Still watching it.
It's turned out to be half decent

 

[hunt4genetics]

Still watching also.
So far so ok.
I'm not sure if the characters are over the top on purpose (Like 24)

So far the vibe I get from the show is

" Dear Lost fans,
Please stick with us,
We will give you answers, that you won't have to wait 6 years for."

Season 1 may go good, but if it's sci-fi and it's NBC....
well just google "Heroes."

 

[ddrew]

Yes it's a lost rip the way it's done, and they damn well better reveal what the alien plan/event is this season.

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Clock in bitches

 

[mean mr.mustard]

Still watching also.
So far so ok.
I'm not sure if the characters are over the top on purpose (Like 24)

So far the vibe I get from the show is

" Dear Lost fans,
Please stick with us,
We will give you answers, that you won't have to wait 6 years for."

Season 1 may go good, but if it's sci-fi and it's NBC....
well just google "Heroes."

Haunting words....

 

[ddrew]

fell asleep like 3 times watching it tonight, saw enough to know that "The Event" has not happened yet.