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Critic Reviews
Jun 18, 2013
Season 3 Review:
'24' continues to roar forward at a breakneck pace, and it does tantalize by dropping clues that keep viewers hooked ... But with the minutiae of love affairs gumming up the works, it's more difficult than ever for viewers -- and the show's characters -- to keep their eyes on the big picture threat that's supposed to drive the series. [26 Oct 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
Next week's episode has more taut scenes than tonight's premiere, which has to lay the groundwork for the season. No surprise -- last season, it took several episodes before "24" began to live up to its promise. [29 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
It's mysterious and exciting, a suspenseful and tense action-drama. [6 Nov 2001]
Season 8 Review:
If it’s not an ingenious or very new device (see: Nina, Tony, Curtis, et. al.), the damaged soul who is Jack’s Self Reflected re-raises and continues to complicate the questions that are typically understood as resolved in Jack. Patriotism and heroism, bad choices and hideous torture in the name of a big picture: it’s 24 repeating.
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Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Tedious and banal, '24' lacks the engrossing panache TV's 'Mission Impossible' had years ago. Even though a well-rested-looking Sutherland is cool, steady and right for his role, he can't carry the show alone. [4 Nov 2001]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It's not that '24' is desperate for ideas in Season 4. No, it was desperate in Season 2. It's that the humor is more blithely predictable now, less forehead-slapping in its preposterousness. As the adrenaline ramps up, the logic falls down. Again. [7 Jan 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The decline of '24' is almost as harrowing as one of its patented pulse-pounding dramatic moments. ... Maybe '24' won't be so head-slappingly ludicrous this time around, but the first two episodes do little to give cynics reason for hope. [27 Oct 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
'24' keeps you on edge like no other series. [28 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 4 Review:
At its very best, '24' creates an almost tactile sense of tension that no show can match. From one harrowing moment to the next, your pulse races and your skin prickles with apprehension. On the other hand, the show's gimmicky structure forces its writers to keep the plates perpetually spinning, and they often aren't up to the task. [5 Jan 2005]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 3 Review:
The first hour... is as kinetic as any episode the show has done. [26 Oct 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
The format of '24' still works beautifully. [27 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
One of the most fully realized, innovative and flat-out exciting television debuts ever. [4 Nov 2001]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 4 Review:
24 is its usual self - a terrific mix of doom-laden thriller and workplace drama. [7 Jan 2005]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 4 Review:
Viewers who never saw it or gave up after the first season now have a chance to get a fresh start. '24' is not as richly woven as 'The Wire' on HBO, but it is still one of the best shows on television. [7 Jan 2005]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 3 Review:
By 1:20 p.m. the series's third season is already as tightly coiled, clever and suspenseful as the first two. [28 Oct 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
The real-time approach can't seem as innovative the second time around, but it is still used to great effect ... The glaring weak spot is Jack's teenage daughter, Kim (Elisha Cuthbert). [29 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Except for Mr. Sutherland, who has a strong and appealing presence, most of the actors seem generic. [6 Nov 2001]
Season 7 Review:
There are, maybe, some hopeful signs. The series seems to have given up on trying to create a bigger WMD for every season, which it needed to do. The political subplot—new president Cherry Jones wants a humanitarian invasion of a Darfur-like African country but is being undermined—is intriguing and a bit different for the show.
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Season 5 Review:
I didn’t know how 24 could top last season, but so far it’s working. And the edge of my seat is already frayed.
Season 8 Review:
Stick around past the disappointing opening night, and on Monday, you’ll get a terrific third-hour cliffhanger and, in hour four, the arrival of a seriously damaged Renee Walker (Annie Wersching), who contributes to a shocking climax that, in fabled 24 tradition, leaves you wanting more.
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Jun 18, 2013
Season 4 Review:
It's such a new day on Fox's 24, it might almost be a new show. This ingeniously entertaining drama always gives us a new set of villains for each seasonal crisis. But this year, it's also giving us a brand new set of heroes. Fortunately for Fox and fans, the things that have been changed are, by and large, improved -- and the most important things have been left alone. [7 Jan 2005]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
Combine the new story's broader scope with the show's newfound willingness to tap into current fears, and there's every reason to hope for an even more suspenseful season. And that's even considering the drag applied by Kim's credibility-straining subplot. [29 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Expertly cut and polished until it practically gleams, 24 is like a flawless diamond: stylish, multifaceted and so sharp that it could cut glass. Everything clicks, from the hip sets to the whip-smart direction to the ever-shifting split screen that imbues even mundane activities such as talking on the phone with an unexpected urgency. [6 Nov 2001]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 4 Review:
The fourth day in the life of '24' begins slowly but gathers momentum through the second and third hours, promising another satisfying thrill ride for those willing to get on board. [3 Jan 2005]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Although not for everyone, '24' remains the equivalent of a great popcorn movie or page-turning book ... [and] has become an accomplished exercise in storytelling that takes full advantage of the television form. [27 Oct 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
'24' isn't getting off to the spectacular start that it did in its debut season when the focus was singular and clear-cut. [29 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Captivating from its first minute forward, "24" is the rare example of a television pilot that hits every mark with an aura of excitement and precision, a stellar cast that exudes personality and personal history, and direction that is as taut as it gets. [2 Nov 2001]
Season 8 Review:
24" works best when the show doesn't take itself too seriously -- incorporating just enough sobering geopolitics to establish a credible foundation before indulging in wild flights of counterespionage fancy. Moreover, having one villain drive the plot for a handful of episodes before being supplanted by another has added greater satisfaction and closure to the program's high-wire storytelling.
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Jun 18, 2013
Season 3 Review:
Menace so permeates the atmosphere that a certain glum predictability has set in to the scenes. [28 Oct 2003]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 2 Review:
Viewers are in for another high-powered pulse-pounder. [29 Oct 2002]
Jun 18, 2013
Season 1 Review:
Cleverly constructed and invigoratingly ambitious in design ... '24' has tension and density that set it well apart from the pack. [6 Nov 2001]
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