The Event- Fridays @ 10pm- Channel 4- 6 out of 10

Not everything that is advertised to death is very good, PhoneShop on E4 probably being the best example ever. But then again, dramas that are really heavily advertised can deliver, like Downton Abbey, or so I'm told at least, I can't watch it as I own a penis.

(Incidentally, every time I saw the advert for The Event, it made me think of the post-apocalyptic quiz show in That Mitchell and Webb Look which made me involuntarily laugh when said advert came on, or maybe I was just laughing at the pomposity of the stupid ad.)

Moving on, The Event is kind of like a cross between Lost (although that maybe due to the presence of an airplane) and the movie Vantage Point. Action flicks between the views of different characters and at different points in time, ranging from going back 66 years in the past to 10 minutes.

The basic plot, from what I can work out so far, is that people-looking aliens (representing terrorists), are locked up in an Alaskan military prison (representing Guantanamo Bay), until President Martinez (representing Obama) decides to release them.

But, before his announcement, a plane almost flies into the Presidential retreat (which looks nothing like Chequers) but is diverted by a big bubble, or something that looks like a big bubble anyway. The plan ends up in an Arizona desert and then the mindfuck gets really intense.

What follows is a woman in a bikini, some guns, another woman in a bikini, some guns on a plane, a shirtless man, some guns in a hospital, a topless man with a broken arm all thrown in with dollops of CONSPIRACY and SUSPENSE and INTRIGUE.

Suffice to say, the show is interesting at the very least but it's also desperately unrealistic. Case in point, I'm fairly sure a car cannot follow in the path of a jet engine without getting blown away and I'm also quite sure that when a plane crashes in a desert, not everyone will survive (all of them are dead by the end of second episode though).

Some of the acting can be a bit on the wooden side and some of the plotlines are yet to convince but the opening two episodes have laid a good foundation for what will hopefully be a show that develops as it goes on.