a5c7b9f00b Day 3: 3 years after the 2nd season, Jack Bauer is still working at CTU along with his daughter, Kim, and her boyfriend, Chase. Things begin to heat upa drug cartel threatens to release a virus if their leader is not released. President Palmer is running for re-election and has to deal with a smear campaign launched by his opponent, and a traitor is operating in CTU. In this concept drama, each season takes place within one 24 hour period. Day 1: Jack Bauer is the head of field ops for an elite team of CTU agents who uncover an assassination plot targeting Presidential nominee David Palmer. Meanwhile, Jack's strained marriage to his wife, Teri, is pushed to the brink by the sudden disappearance of their troubled teenage daughter. What will the next 24 hours hold? "24" is engaging, but reprehensible. The main problem with the show is that while it tries to balance right wing raving with centrist (what it thinks ofleft wing) ideology it comes offthe same "fair and balanced"the Fox News network. As evidenced by the fact that the show is a favorite among Bushies I advance that while a centrist or leftist watching the show might see the bigot beating up the Arab kid (Kal Penn) in the 2007 season who happens to actually be a terrorist and glean for the moment the dramatic irony of the situation, the Cheneys of the world are rooting for the bigot to take Kal's head off even if he isn't a terrorist because that's "security." Yes, I am saying that it depresses me to see even the lip service the show gives to balance because I know that the other side is simply too stupid to see it that way, and it hampers my enjoyment of what is essentially a dumb visceral show. The people on this show should not take part in it because they think their "nuance" and that of the show is being caught, but it doesn't matter that I get it, I ALWAYS get it, it's the people that watched that other season where the leftist son of the secretary of defense almost destroyed the country because he was a crypto-homosexual, THOSE are the messages that last; and Kal Penn willing to be on this show to show that the Arab or Indian next door could be your enemy, participating in something like this should merit punishment worse than casting in "Rise of the Taj." Oh, and Jack looks like he's in "Sling Blade" at the beginning of 2007 with that buttoned up shirt. I used to hear about this and it seemed the consensus was that it was so great. I have only recently started watching it on Amazon Fire TV. I've been underwhelmed, for sure. The writing is really not very good. It's too lazy and formulaic. How incredibly stupid can Kim be? Does Teri just accept that it's OK for Jack's job to put them in so much jeopardy? Can the criminals be any more stupid? I know that sometimes in shows like this you have to suspend reality a bit, but there's just too much that's not realistic in any way at all. I'm about 15 or so episodes into the first season and it's just too ridiculous. I can't continue with crap like this. Bye, 24, I hardly knew ye . . . but I knew enough not to continue to waste my time.
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