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- TV Series: 24
- Episode: 10:00 p.m. - 11:00 p.m.
- Starring: Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, Annie Wersching, Cherry Jones, Freddie Prince Jr., John Boyd, Anil Kapoor
- Written By: Joel Surnow, Robert Cochran
- Directed By: Milan Cheylov
- Network: Fox
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24: 10:00 – 11:00pm Review
Jack’s up Past His Bedtime and He’s Not Happy About It By
Stephen Lackey
February 09, 2010
Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) in another episode of Fox's 24(2010).
© Fox/Bob Trate
Wow, Jack and Renee have really traded places. How much longer can this go on? Jack does get to take out some dudes this week but he ends up kidnapped leaving Renee who has lost it completely but will be the only one who can save Jack. On the other hand, Jack’s been captured and tortured before so we’ll just have to see how it goes. Jack meets face to face with the Russians and from that point on tons of time is spent with Vladimir either making phone calls or being convinced to make calls by Renee. At the same time, the President is convincing all of the delegates involved in the peace treaty to stick with it and she’d get Hassan to stop ripping through his country like a madman. Finally, Dana is helping her old “friend” from the past steal money from a warehouse full of confiscated goodies.
Since this is 24, you sort of have to look the other way once in a while when things get too ridiculous. The show handled these situations much better in the early years. Nowadays the writers just do whatever they want to do whether it’s even slightly realistic or not. In the best scene in the episode, Renee hands out a stabbing that would make Michael Myers proud and in her fit of rage, she accidentally sticks it to Jack too. The wound she delivers to him is deep in appearance and it even has that meaty sort of sound of a knife being buried in a gut. Jack grabs the knife and flings it into another man’s throat. Now that was awesome but seeing Jack stick a Band-Aid on it and getting ready for action again is just too much. Sure, it’s easy to look beyond a tossed knife when Jack’s being a badass but no consequences outside of a stained shirt after getting stabbed in the gut is just too much.
In previous seasons, the events happening around the President actually mattered. Last week, those scenes were poorly executed and this week they come off a little better but the treaty just doesn’t seem to matter at all. This President was entertaining to watch last season but this season so far if she appears on screen it’s time to run to the refrigerator if you forgot something during the commercial break. The political stuff is just boring, simple as that. Hassan is self destructing and even that’s not enough to make these scenes interesting. Some real attention needs to be paid to this part of the 24 storyline because it needs rescuing in a huge way.
The previously mentioned knifing scene notwithstanding this episode featured a mix of boring scenes and scenes that are just too ridiculous. It is 10pm is Jack just getting too close to his bedtime? When are the real thrills going to kick in? There’s a scene panning out from a truck full of weapons grade plutonium to reveal the big city the truck is driving through. The scene was presented in such an epic way that it felt like the director thought we didn’t already know where the plutonium is. Could this be the season that 24 finally implodes? This show has been better and hopefully it will recover soon.
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I think you were being kind with that D grade, Stephen. Last night, I was ready to bang my head into a wall upon watching it.
I would really like to know what the hell the producers, writers and showrunners are thinking by dedicating such a large chunk of story telling to Sackhoff's Dana Walsh character.
Seriously, out of the first ten minutes last night, at least seven of them centered on Dana and her redneck boyfriend.
More than half of the episode went towards that silly sub-plot as well.
It was the point where they showed Jack Bauer at 10:44 p.m,, I said aloud "Oh, there's Jack Bauer. I thought I was watching a Lifetime movie."
What the hell are they thinking over there?
If you're going to spend so much time per hour on a new character, use it on Freddy's character. At least, he's somewhat interesting and has not turned into a total joke. Much like the Dana Walsh character has.
Nearly laughed my way to tears when they showed the preview at the end. Dana is now going to reveal her issues to Freddy's character? Now? That's four episodes too late, 24 writers. It should have been done when the idiot ex-boyfriend showed up in the first place.
Unreal.
Both Jack Bauer and the president have been getting no screen time in favor of a moronic Lifetime sub-plot.
Absolutely love watching 24 but the last few episodes have turned into a joke. Cougar Cuthbert and Insomnia Terry eat your heart out.