09.21.10
The Event — not magical!
NBC’s The Event — thumbs down.
Scruffy-looking young character plans to propose to his pretty girlfriend on pleasure cruise. Girlfriend mysteriously disappears while he’s off watching fish with another girl.
It takes thirty seconds for the viewer to figure out that a shadow group has kidnapped her, along with her kid sister, shot her mother, all to persuade the dad, who is a pilot, to fly a jet-liner into the party where the prez is appearing.
And there’s a secret facility in Alaska, called Mount Inosotranka, housing 97 prisoners.
The president wants them released.
Tony Todd is in it, too. But he doesn’t have a hook or Klingon make-up. Maybe the next best thing, though, a general’s uniform!
The jet is diving toward the party. Lots of noise in between commercials! The scruffy character is at the cockput door, trying to persuade his girlfriend’s dad not to do it. Pull up!
A ball of energy appears in front of the jetliner, swallowing it before it smashes into the party villa, killing everyone.
Abandon ship! Another series where every episode is one big stall, nothing ever explained until it’s cancelled. The sooner the better.
At 10:00, your host switches to the remake of Hawaii Five O.
Look, it’s Grace Park — Number 8/Boomer/Athena from Battlestar Galactica — as a Maxim-ready girl cop! She appears in a bikini on a surfboard and punches a dude. She’s tough!
Then she’s in a dress, standing before a slimy crook. He tells her to take it off. The producers of the show have her in her underwear again, that’s twice in the space of about ten minutes.
Why the heck didn’t they just have her take everything off, too, so the audience of presumed kuckledraggers could see if she’s trimmed her bush in pornstar landing strip fashion?
Sadly, you can tell the writers and producer will have Park being divested of her overclothes or in a bathing suit, at least a couple times an episode.
Then there were those other guys. Now Steve McGarrett is an ex-Navy SEAL, very white bread and about twenty years too young. And without a hint of the steely and imposing character of the original. The comic heavies from Magnum P.I. could grease this guy.
There was a plot but no one watching cared.
This ain’t your Hawaii Five O, presuming you’re my age.
Grace Park, along with Katee Sackhoff, now in the race to see which alumna from Battlestar Galactica can rack up the most humiliating roles on network TV.
Which reminds me, when are they going to give Jackie Earle Haley his own series? Wasted on the horrible Human Target, I bet lots of people would wish to see him playing some smart-talking five-foot-five tough guy who gets to beat up people twice his size once a week.
Jason said,
September 24, 2010 at 6:57 am
“The Event” struck me as a “Lost” wanna-be. They want to capture whatever made millions watch that mysterious show (I was not one of them).
James Callis (Baltar) and Tricia Helfer (#6) are the only ones who have done well. When Callis was on “Eureka”, there was an episode where all the main characters were hallucinating, characters from their past were talking to them. Callis is seeing a US soldier in WW2 gear (since he came from 1947). When asked by the others who he is seeing, he deadpans, “A tall blonde in a red dress.” HAaaaaaaa.