

“You have to convince him to change his mind, whatever it takes.” “He’s going to tell them about the event.” Here’s a sample exchange of dialogue, taking place in a mysterious government facility between two characters speaking in hushed, urgent tones and using pronouns almost exclusively:

Or is it perhaps a secret parody of those kinds of shows? Is it a globe-trotting thriller? A science-fiction show? Yet another “Lost”-esque series with a complicated mythology that its creators intend to parcel out as slowly as possible? I want to know what “The Event” itself is. What is “The Event”? Forget about the actual event within the new NBC series (Monday at 9 p.m.), which the promos and the characters talk about constantly without ever offering so much as a hint about what it is.
