24 - Season One

"WOW" that is what I said when i finished watching all 24 episodes of this exhilarating show. I must admit that this is one of the most unpredictable TV shows out there, every line; every minute is felt like a real life situation.

For those who are unfamiliar with the setting of the program worry, it's not complicated at all. The show begins at 12:00AM and the last episode end at 12:00am and through the course of 24 hours you go through the events of 3 different stories; all of which take place in real time, at the exact same time. the first story is that of the head of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit) Jack Bauer. Jack is in search of his missing teenage daughter, who might be kidnapped. The two other stories center on a presidential candidate David Palmer, who is having troubles with his family about an incident that occur 7 yrs ago. The third story is primarily the CTU center helping Bauer on his investigation. it is very difficult to explain the TV show in a couple of paragraphs with out ruining details; but one thing is for certain that this is probably the most original, effective and realistic show on TV. It left me glued to the TV set until the last episode.

so if you are a fan of shows like Prison Break, C.S.I, The Shield and Law And Order or any action movie than this is definitely gona make your day, your best 24 hours of your life sitting in front of T.V. so don't hesitate, BUY IT NOW!!.

Special Features

Disc 6: Alternate Ending
Alternate Ending with Commentary By Producer & Creator Joel Surnow
Season One Introduction by Keifer Sutherland
Widescreen 1:77:1
Dolby 5.1 Surround

Sucked in by all the hype, plus the fact this is now (as I write this) into Season SEVEN, I thought I'd give this a whirl.

It starts at midnight. By 2am I was already irritated by Jack's wife and daughter, two insipid characters played by two of the worst female 'actresses' in TV history. Are they in some way related to the producers? I think we should be told.

By 4am I was starting to be annoyed as to how stupid the whole premise was. Trying to summarise the convoluted, complex and idiotic scheme dreamed up by the terrorists to simply kill the senator is irritating me even more. Suffice to say, the whole thing depends on Jack Bauer's teenage daughter sneaking out of her room at night to meet up with a couple of stoned teenage youths in a van, who have been paid to kidnap her. What would have happened if she'd just decided to stay at home instead? The whole plot would have failed, and we'd be 23 hours and 55 minutes short of a series!

By 7am I was shouting at the TV screen, to the goodies, the baddies, everybody. "Why are you doing that, you idiot? Just do this!" Characters behave in the most stupid and nonsensical manner, purely to set up a cliff-hanger ending for the next episode. Good grief - even the original Batman series was more plausible than this!

By 11am I was exhausted by all the ludicrous plot twists and character changes. Goodies become baddies, baddies become goodies, and bit part support characters change from simpering lovebirds to rabid nutters,and back again, all in the space of a few hours.

By 1pm I was fast-forwarding through the 'soapy' scenes, where embarrassingly bad actors spouted even worse banal dialogue to each other - the senator and his ridiculous son (who looks nothing like him and is about a third of his height), the senator and his wife, Jack's wife and Jack's daughter, Jack's wife and Jack ... "I love you" "I love you too" "I was never there for you, but I'm here for you now..." blah blah blah...

By 3pm even the action scenes were getting dull. Oh look, here's Jack again, driving off at high speed in yet another vehicle... Oh crikey, he's crashed! Oh no, the baddies have got him... again! The man gets through about 50 forms of transport, all in one day - and never once gets held up in traffic!

By 5pm I hate the goodie characters so much I'm rooting for the baddies. "Go on... shoot them! For God's sake! Do us all a favour!" Jack's wife is the worst of the lot, a strange scrawny individual who stumbles around weeping most of the time, showing all the emotional range of a Thunderbirds puppet - gawky, uncoordinated and with wide staring eyes too big for her head. This is fine when she's supposed to be suffering from memory loss and doesn't know who she is or where she is... but she's like this right from the word go! A more irritating character would be hard to find... although her teenage daughter - shoehorned into the mess purely to keep adolescent boys happy - comes very very close. She does a great line in stupid sullen petulance, and most of the time you're wishing somebody would give her a good slap.

By 7pm I'm realising I'm just a few hours from the end, so I skipped through the last five episodes in barely one hour... and didn't miss a trick!

It was a relief when it was over. In total it occupied about eight hours of my life. I wish it had only been eight seconds.

The first season was fun. The concept for "24" a novel, exciting one. No other season since was as good. The downside is that "24" helped the public get used to the idea that torture is a vital necessity for saving American lives -- an idea which most experts in the real world intelligence community overwhelmingly disagree. In effect, this television program has been successful propaganda for the rightwing and Bush Administration (regardless of what any actor may think of his role or makers of a TV show claim).

When I found out that Barack Obama is going to be our first African-American President, I thought about this season of 24, because Barack is now the real David Palmer! The 24 hour time period takes place during the presidential primary. At midnight, Jack Bauer's daughter runs away from home, and around that time, he has been called in to CTU because a threat has been made on David Palmer's life. Throughout the day, Jack has to stop bad guys, find his kidnapped wife and daughter, deal with betrayal, try to stay awake, and save David Palmer. When I was new to this show, it was around the time the 5th season was starting, so I finished this season and watched that season. Since then, I'm a huge fan of 24! If you love action, suspense, and heroes, you'll love 24: DAY ONE!!!

It only took me-oh- SIX years to finally watch this show. And the only reason I watched it was because the first 5 episodes of Season 1 were on Veoh TV. It was the weekend and I was in the house with nothing to do. "Why not?" I tell myself. And let me tell you by the time I watched the 5th free episode, I made it my mission to find out how I was going to watch the rest of the season. Veoh only had those five shows so I had to look everywhere to find the rest of the season. Lots of thrills and actions. Once one episode goes off, you have to watch the next one because its so full of suspense! How I missed this show since 2001 is beyond my belief. I even played the game on PS2 last year before I watched the show. The game is just like the show!
Way to go 24! Keifer Sutherland has just become my favorite actor.