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Season Two Falls Far from the Original
An all-star cast returns in FOX's poweful drama 24. Once again Kiefer Sutherland picks up the roll as Jack Bauer, a former federal agent for the governmnet's Counter Terrorist Unit. He also takes the roll as executive producer for the television show, and it's downhill from there. Viewers who are watching the show for the first time will be on the edge of their seats, as season two gives them the feeling of watching a great show on television. Fans will be very disappointed in the delivery of this season's storyline, for it doesn't give the feeling of viewing a long but very good movie as the first season did. The story of a rouge nuclear weapon on American soil would have been a good one, if the writers had known where they were going with it. Characters were introduced and dropped in the nezt two episodes, such as Sarah Clarke's Nina Myers. Elisha Cuthbert's character Kim Bauer makes stupid and unneeded mistakes that were just used to keep the show interesting and to have a pretty woman in it. The acting, editing, musical score is fantastic unlike the show itself. After seeing this and the first season, it feels as if the writers tried to out match the previous season with its assasination story but fall far from it.

Stars Great But Loses Momentum
I watched the two episode promo that came with another DVD and was instantly hooked. The problem is, the momentum in those first few episodes quickly petered out.

Another problem is the story becomes increasingly shoddy and political (evil corporations are the real enemy). I was waiting for Jack Bauer to squeal "no blood for oil." I guess I usually like a rollercoaster ride and lots of twists, but the problem is these twists just don't suprise--all the usual suspects are lined up, leaving one cold, bored, and disappointed. So, while not utterly predictable in the usual sense, the last half of the series just doesn't take us anywhere surprising.

The action and acting of the most of the cast sustain this series to its end, however. The strengths carry a weak story in the last half of the season. While the story may take a turn for the worse, the series still entertains. Acting, with the exception of President Palmer, is above average. Action is very good for a TV drama.

Overall Recommendation: Recommended for fans of action-thriller-spy-adventure TV. Well done, despite its flaws.

It Just Keeps Getting Better & Better!!!!
Executive-produced by its star, Kiefer Sutherland (who has made one of the most remarkable comebacks for an actor in recent history), "24" took a unique and innovative idea---film an entire day, hour by hour, over an entire season---and, instead of using it as a gimmick, let it be the starting pad for one of the most suspenseful, interesting, exciting, disturbing, engrossing and best dramatic series in TV history. This show has never let up from the beginning, and has only become more riveting ever since. In Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) Agent Jack Bauer, Kiefer Sutherland has created a truly complex hero, and has deservingly revived his once-promising career that had been sagging for over a decade.

The first season, which I got on DVD last year, concerned a double-whammy threat: An assassination plot against Presidential candidate Senator David Palmer (played nobly by veteran African-American actor Dennis Haysbert) and the kidnapping of Jack Bauer's daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) and, eventually his wife Teri (Leslie Hope). Along the way, subplots are interwoven cleanly into the proceedings, such as Sen. Palmer's ambitious, scheming Lady MacBeth of a wife Sherry (Penny Johnson Jerald) and Jack Bauer's enigmatic colleague, and former lover, Agent Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke). The entire first season was a high-caliber rollercoaster ride all the way to its shocking and completely unpredictable conclusion.

Season Two promised a no-less-intense rollercoaster ride as it concerned the threat of a nuclear bomb about to be set off in Los Angeles. Beginning 18 months after the events of the previous season's day, a much-embittered Jack Bauer is called upon by President David Palmer to help save the day. At the same time, Jack is highly concerned about keeping Kim out of the potential blast area. Unfortunately, it won't be easy for her as she is a live-in nanny to the young daughter of an abusive father. Also at the same time, a rich business owner named Bob Warner is about to marry off his younger daughter Marie to his trusted employee, a young British-raised Arab-American man named Reza, whom is suspected of being involved with terrorists by Bob's elder daughter, Kate Warner (Sarah Wynter). All of these plot threads come together, in ways that are completely surprising, exciting, suspenseful and spellbinding.

Bottom line: If you loved Season One of "24" then you're gonna LOVE Season Two. It rocks!!

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