TV: 24 - Season One

Very good for broadcast TV

Benjamin and I finished watching season 1 of 24 last night. The first disc of season 2 is already in the mail from Netflix (speaking of which, I hear it gets worse for a while but that season 4 is awesome).

Benjamin and I both really enjoyed this show and did get hooked pretty quickly. I think it is one of the better TV shows available, though it is not as good as Lost or many of the HBO series (Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Carnivale, Deadwood). It may not be as noticeable when watching it over the course of 24+ weeks, but there are some plot choices that make little or no sense. Also, Benjamin and I were generally able to predict plot twists before they happened, though usually just right before rather than well in advance. Oh, and it does bug me that nothing critical ever happens during the "real time" in which the commercials fall.

Still, this is a good show and worth watching. Who’d have thought I’d say that in 2006 about something starring Kiefer Sutherland? Go figure.