24: Live Another Day
FOX | Release Date: November 30, -0001
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
70
METASCORE
Generally favorable reviews based on 40 Critic Reviews
Positive:
30
Mixed:
10
Negative:
0
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60
Sioux City JournalBruce MillerMay 5, 2014
Season 9 Review: [Director] Cassar juggles plenty of balls in that first hour, uses some new techniques at his disposal and gives Rajskub her best scenes yet. But there’s something very retro about the formula--something that doesn’t quite seem ready for revival. Read full review
58
Entertainment WeeklyJeff JensenApr 30, 2014
Season 9 Review: The story is sweaty with provocative, post--al-Qaeda, post-Snowden security anxieties--drone warfare, abused surveillance, and secrecy--but the treatment so far is superficial and sensationalistic. Read full review
58
Uncle BarkyEd BarkApr 30, 2014
Season 9 Review: Fox made the first two episodes available for review. They’re watchable but also sadly a little comical, with Jack again all clenched up while speaking in a gasping-for-air rasp or silently clenching his jaw. Read full review
50
The Daily BeastJason LynchMay 5, 2014
Season 9 Review: Yet despite the spiffy new London locale and the four-year hiatus, 24: Live Another Day is--at least in its first two hours--more reminiscent of the run-of-the-mill later seasons as opposed to its revelatory, exhilarating heyday. Read full review
50
Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob OwenMay 2, 2014
Season 9 Review: Other than the shorter season and London setting, the story beats and types of twists are nearly identical. This sameness highlights how the show's format, revolutionary when it premiered more than a decade ago, has become formulaic and a little stale. Read full review
50
Washington PostHank StueverMay 2, 2014
Season 9 Review: By the second hour (both of Monday’s episodes adhere to the minute-by-minute chronology; the fast-forwarding will happen later), it’s clear that Live Another Day is not much interested in broadening the show’s scope, feeling or characters. It does, however, have an abiding interest in the latest news about spying, vis-a-vis its own version of notorious document-leaker Edward Snowden: Chloe O’Brian. Read full review
50
VarietyBrian LowryApr 30, 2014
Season 9 Review: The opening two episodes are characteristically entertaining, and snap along pretty briskly (the first is in real time), but it’s hard to escape a sense of creative malaise around all this. Read full review
40
SlateWilla PaskinMay 5, 2014
Season 9 Review: In the new miniseries’ opening installments, 24 makes some half-hearted efforts to contend with its own legacy. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra StanleyMay 2, 2014
Season 9 Review: The setting, London, is new, but not much else. Read full review
40
TimeJames PoniewozikMay 1, 2014
Season 9 Review: As long as all you ask of it is more familiar twists and backstabbing, you’ll probably be happy with it. If you felt (like I did) that the series had said all it had to say after eight years, the reboot looks skippable. Read full review
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