There are many events in life, some are good, some can be bad, and some are “must-see” events, but for NBC’s new series “The Event” is one you can afford to miss.

If you aren’t confused in the first few minutes of the show already, you soon will be with all of the switching around from two minutes of action to a floating name on your screen, the point of the show gets a little blurry. First off, the show doesn’t have a set date in time, all you see is cryptic messages like “11 minutes earlier” and “13 months earlier”, but my question is, earlier from what? You can’t have a t.v. show that doesn’t have a solid point in time because if all you are showing is the past it makes the show seem like it’s going backwards than forwards. This “Event” that is apparently suppose to happen is alluded through the dialogue consistently but has no other information that is given about what might happen, besides the fact that a plane was zapped out of existence.

The other thing that doesn’t help the show be more intriguing and intense, as how it was advertised, is the character interaction. There is no character development throughout the whole episode, it is like they just put the characters there and expected us in the audience to know who they were, what they are like, how they act, and what their intentions are, when the show is suppose to show us the characters, not let us guess.

I can honestly see where NBC was hoping to go with this show, and it can have potential, but if this is what you are going to give audiences a taste of what is to come in the future, then it is a sour taste. There is nothing about “The Event” that makes me want to tune in next week to see what happens next, nothing at all unless NBC can show how a quantum-slip-space-wormhole can come out-of-the-blue and make a plane disappear, but then again, that was the main concept in the series “FlashForward” so that idea is taken.

For the lack of originality, intense action, and leaving me with a confusing mess of questions in my head, “The Event” receives a deserving 1/2 star out of 5.