After watching the first disc of the first season the only thought in my head was it really sucked that there wasn't a 24 hour DVD store to sell me this damn box set so I would never have to wait 8 hours before being able to see the next episode. Awesome.
See also Season 2, which was sweet.
3 started out cool, but then Jack got back to LA and I forget what happened other than a lot of people at CTU blowing it for silly reasons. See also seasons 4 and 5, which are so similar I get them confused and can't remember which one is the one where the fat dude w/ the lisp dies and which one his mom dies in (though logic is telling me he eats it in 5, so he can mourn his mom and not vice versa)
I Tivoed Season 6, but the formula was so entrenched that by mid season i'd watch the "previously on 24" and then fast forward all the way to the end and watch "next week, on 24" and feel like I had a pretty good handle on it. Then shame overtook and I canceled my season's pass to Jack Bauer's torture porn lollapalooza.
It really sucks too, because the show had so many options, and at least for a little while was asking interesting questions about policy, politics and human nature. Then it got to the point where a dude had his shoulder blade bored into and was back at work an hour later.
That's bullshit, because any dude hard enough to get back to work after such a horrible experience is definitely too hard to crack and make the terrorists a launch device.
Also, hire some new cast people. Pretty soon every non-dead cast member will have been president.
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