Nick Wauters wrote for shows like The 4400 and Medium before he created this show, which begins at the end of World War II. A UAP crashes in the Brooks Range of northern Alaska, filled with humanoid aliens whose DNA is 99% human but who age much slower than Earth people. Ninety-seven of them are kept in Mount Inostranka by the U.S. government while the Sleepers are aliens that escaped the landing and have become part of society.
When he assumes his office, U.S. President Elias Martinez (Blair Underwood) releases the imprisoned survivors and reveals their existence to the world. That is, he would have if someone didn’t try to assassinate him. Now, the CIA unleashes a plan to hunt down the Sleepers, except the director in charge is an alien.
Sean Walker (Jason Ritter) gets involved when his girlfriend Leila Buchanan (Sarah Roemer) gets kidnapped while they are on vacation as she’s the daughter of one of the aliens.
For the first part of the show, it was told by flashback to three different timelines, while many of the characters had Twitter accounts and there was a blog — truthseeker5314.com — that revealed plot points. This was all too confusing to viewers, so the second half of the episodes was a traditional narrative.
As engaging as the show is, it started with big ratings and then lost them midway through its run. The hiatus — November to February — only caused viewers to forget about the show and it was gone — after some huge hype — after one season.
You can still celebrate what could have been by rewatching the episodes. There’s a good cast, including Laura Innes as the leader of the aliens, Ian Dale as an alien CIA agent, Hal Holbrook as a businessman covering up the aliens, Clea DuVall as a killer ET and D.B. Sweeney as an assassin.
The show felt like Lost, which just ended the same season. Maybe audiences were tired of a show that kept so many secrets. Regardless, I liked the show.
The Mill Creek blu ray box set release of The Event includes making of features, an alternate story for Dr. Dempsey, deleted scenes, episodes commentaries with cast, crew and creators, podcasts, photo galleries and more. You can get it from Deep Discount.
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My roommates and I watched this show faithfully when it aired. It was one of the last few science fiction shows I watched when I was making an effort to keep up with current science fiction, before I finally accepted that the aesthetics of modern movies & TV no longer speak to me. I also watched the new V (2009) and FRINGE (2008). Hard to believe that was 15 years ago.
THE EVENT wasn’t confusing to me, but it did start to feel like they were never going to get to the fireworks factory, so to speak. I remember one particularly frustrating scene where Bill Smitrovich’s character is on his cell phone and is about to reveal the name of his bad-guy boss and he keeps fumbling and not spitting it out, and you just know the longer he pads it out, the greater the chance someone is going to kill him right when he’s about to say it. And sure enough that happens. My roommates and I were screaming at the TV, “JUST SAY THE NAME!!!” I don’t think I can forgive something like that. 🙂
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