Joshua Alston's brilliant explanation (
Onion TV Club) for what it's like to actually watch this terrible disaster of a series:
It’s clear by now we’ll never actually know what the titular event was supposed to be. The writers have made it plain that they hadn’t figured out what the event was when they started, and then after having written and shot a bunch of different things happening, decided they couldn’t pick which one it was supposed to be. And in a way, it’s all of our faults for being so disappointed by this show. Let’s say a guy calls his wife at work and says “Hey sweetie, don’t make any plans tonight, I’ve got a huge surprise.” And she gets home, and he got her cupcakes from her favorite bakery, and she’s like “Aw, so sweet! Now what’s this surprise you’ve got for me? I’ve been puzzling over it all day.” Well he’s going to feel like crap. That’s how we made the writers of The Event feel. If you have to ask what the event is, then obviously it didn’t mean as much to you as it meant to them, sniffle sniffle.
