Filed under: Reality-Free, Fall TV
['The Event' - 'To Keep Us Safe']Everyone remembers the famous exchange from 'A Few Good Men,' in which Jack Nicholson less-than-calmly informed Tom Cruise that he couldn't handle the truth. (This was long before Destiny's Child informed all of us that we weren't ready for this jelly.)
This second episode of NBC's 'The Event' seemed to reformulate the famous exchange, with the audience screaming, "We want the truth!" and the show replying, "Fine, here's a huge download of answers. Are you not entertained?" (Whoops. 'The Event' slid out from 'A Few Good Men' and straight into 'Gladiator.' In its defense, it's working really hard to please the masses.)
In some ways, one has to applaud the show for not pulling a weekly bait-and-switch, promising a chunk of tasty mythological download and only yielding a crumb by episode's end. But there was also a lot of flop sweat onscreen in the show's eagerness to prove it knows the story that it's telling. Former 'Lost' fans were no doubt confused when a scene of a plane crash was followed a huge laundry list of answers. It was almost as if The Others found Jack Shephard ten minutes after Oceanic 815 landed on the island and told them about a frozen donkey wheel a few miles away. Just utterly jarring. Getting all this info upfront is not unappreciated, but it'll take a bit of getting used to.
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