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110 of 126 people found the following review helpful:
Season Four: Twists and Turns Galore!, July 4, 2005
Wow! This season of 24 has been a mesmerizing thrill-ride just like the previous three seasons, all of which had a great storyline, excellent plot twists, and many surprising outcomes. Season four brings in some fresh new characters and has many great unexpected guest appearances. Many familiar faces return for this day of crisis, and the fearsome new villain is played with cold-hearted intensity by The Mummy's Arnold Vosloo. The threat this time around is much different, as there are multiple situations to deal with. Jack Bauer has to make some extremely difficult choices as per usual, but it will be interesting to see where the show is taken next year, especially after this season's ending. Kiefer Sutherland is captivating as the frustrated and tormented Jack Bauer, who has found a new love in his life, the daughter of the Secretary of Defense Audrey Heller-Raines. But their love will be put to the ultimate test during the next 24 hours. This is must-see television and I highly recommend it to anyone looking for an original and intelligent suspense-filled drama. Season five returns on FOX January 2006.
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103 of 140 people found the following review helpful:
A great show for anyone, July 6, 2005
How I started watching 24 is a strange story. In its first 3 seasons, I always knew of it, but never watched it. After watching a few (probably 3) minutes of the first season, I wasn't impressed and for no reason decided never to watch the show. It's pretty obvious that I never gave it a chance (and somehow people do this all the time). So years later when Season 4 premiered, I happened to be in my room on my computer with the TV on fox (only because Seinfeld just went off). I can honestly say the only reason I didn't change the channel, or simply turn the TV off was because I couldn't bear the 10 ft walk without my remote. As the show progressed, I found my self more and more engrossed till the point where I couldn't walk away for the next two hours. As the show ended, I was shocked to find how entertaining it was. Like most people, the most thrilling show I had seen till then was Law & Order (no offense). I soon went to Amazon to find that the first season was available for 25$ and I quickly purchased it. Thinking back, that was most definitely the best investment I've ever made in a DVD. 25$ for 18+ hrs of sheer entertainment, there's no doubt. I was able to buy and watch the first 3 seasons in less than two weeks, sad to some but fun for me.
Compared to the first 3 seasons, I'm happy to see that season 4 is still able to retain some originality. I don't think I will say this is the best season (one reason being its a bit far-fetched, even in comparison to the earlier seasons) but still easily one of the best TV shows of all time.
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15 of 21 people found the following review helpful:
Torture Torture Everywhere, December 10, 2006
This show is the most fun I could possibly have rooting for Big Brother. For being the most openly neo-conservative show on TV they do have a way of avoiding controversy that they could be creating. Let's look at the world of "24." Surveillance has run amok. Stealing computer software leads you to having ties with Islamic terrorists. Having one night stands leads you to have ties with Islamic terrorists. It is not only OK, but rather expected, that you treat liberals as the enemy. And torture, which shows up in nearly every episode, is the only way to save all of God's children from these Islamic terrorists. Alberto Gonzalez himself could not have cooked up a more rosy picture of torture, but more on that later. Still the show wins fans and awards alike, and completely deserve them both. It is possibly the most entertaining thing on TV, and in the year 2006 that is saying something.
What is amazing to me about the show is the way that they are able to continuously create situations for these characters that are both plausible and suspenseful all the while keeping up the break neck pacing that they are so famous for. The very basic premise of this season is so simplistic and over the top. Terrorists (brown of course) are going to steal a nuclear weapon and shoot it at one of the US's main cities. The only hope we useless civilians have is the bravery of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). There are, as always, a gazillion side plots here and before all is said and done we will have three presidents, the Chinese, Tony Almeida, gay sex, a white suburban girl, a hunt for a "football," the destruction of Air Force One, and that woman from "House of Sand and Fog" all involved. One of my favorite twists of this season was the introduction of sworn in President Charles Logan played brilliantly by Gregory Itzin. Logan is a man in way over his head but believes that a little tough talk and a few phony smiles will solve anything. Itzin's performance is at once hilarious and depressing, and I hear he only gets better in season 5. I was also intrigued by the angle early on that involved the son of the terrorists who had the bad fortune of having a white girlfriend. Now the parents were obviously delusional if they thought their son wouldn't get a taste for white meat living in the sanitized suburbs of America. That aside, the scene where his mom is left to poison his girlfriend to get her out of the way is played perfectly on a small, domestic level.
But then we have the torture. More than anything it is just stunning how often it shows up. If somebody isn't being tortured, then they are being threatened with torture. If I didn't know any better I would say that the makers of this show have some sort of fetish that involves the intense suffering of others. We also get scene where "tough guys" stomp their feet and cry because liberals are obstructing their ability to torture. I also found it in bad taste that the 1 (!) liberal character on the entire show was shown to be weak, whiny, skuzzy all while having ties to terrorism and, of course, being gay. That is because, as all red blooded conservatives know, all liberals are gay. But hey it is their show they can do what they want. Oh, I forgot to mention, I love this show!!
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