So Good I Hate It

I’m hooked. The new series 24 on Fox kicks major ass. Every week I tune in remembering just how intense it was the prior week and thinking in the back of my mind that this episode has to be a little slower… they can’t keep upping the tempo every week… can they?

For those of you who are not watching it (and I’d love to hear why or what else you are watching) I will give you a quick recap. Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is the head of an anti-terrorist unit of the FBI based in L.A. His wife and daughter are kidnapped to force him to help with an assassination attempt on presidential hopeful Senator David Palmer (Dennis Haysbert). They key is that Palmer and Bauer have a connection that they don’t even realize, but it ties the two of the together in a very dangerous set of events.

The catch to 24 is that there will be 24 episodes. Each one is the events of an hour in a single day. There is a running clock that pops up at the beginning and ending of each commercial break to keep the intensity going. And intensity is definitely the word for this show. There have been more dead bodies, kidnappings, gun shots, drug deals and new characters then the evening news in Washington DC. But I’m not going to try and catch you up on everything… Fox does a good job of it here https://www.fox.com/24/home.html

And if you need more of a reason to watch the show… they just added Lou Diamond Phillips and Dennis Hopper to the cast.