Saturday, September 11, 2004
24 (SPOILERS)
Finally got round to watching the second (!) series of 24 last week. 'Twas very good - not quite as exciting as the first one (possibly because of the slight lack of novelty), but I thought the story was better-constructed this time round, and as with the first series, it definitely didn't let the tension up for more than a few minutes at a time.
Some of my highlights :
Vice-President Jim Robinson (and then later without the vice!)
The bomb actually going off and not being the primary focusof the entire show.
The continuing extremely disturbing portrayal of Sherry Palmer (Penny Johnson Jerald - excellent actress)
Kim Bauer's "day in an ordinary life" - let's see ...
Some of my highlights :
- Falsely accused of kidnapping
- Beats someone up with a wrench
- Caught in a building when a bomb goes off
- Steals a car, gets pulled over and arrested because of the dead body in the boot
- Causes a car crash to escape (incidentally causing her boyfriend to lose a leg in the process)
- Caught in an animal trap and nearly eaten by a cougar
- Locked in a nuclear bunker by a psycho
- Dad rings her up to tell her he's about to be killed in a nuclear explosion
- Becomes a hostage in an impromptu supermarket hold-up
- Re-arrested but then freed again to go pick up her things from her house
- Forced to shoot the man she earlier beat up with the wrench
posted by Chip : 08:17
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Comments:
I've seen odd episodes scattered throughout the second series (almost certainly not the best way to watch it) and keep thinking of getting the nice DVD box-set. And the first one too, even though I've seen that. I'm sure I saw somewhere that there's a 3rd series now too.
I'm watching the third series slowly at the moment - they're about to put the fourth one on American telly fairly soon. Catch up!
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