Many of you, like myself, have encountered in your TV watching lives the adrenaline-pumping, palm-sweating, armchair-gripping drama that is 24. Why study when you could watch Jack Bauer save the world? Yet as I progress through my 3rd season of this glorious saga, I find myself encountering some rather predictable motifs that have occurred in every season as of yet. For your reading pleasure, please continue.
1. Jack Bauer is always going against CTU protocol in some way or another; disregarding laws in order to get things done the Jack Bauer way. He usually succeeds, so we’re generally okay with this. However…
2. Kim Bauer always ends up being kidnapped, held hostage, or otherwise imprisoned. She also has a knack for falling for testosterone-charged men with backgrounds as questionable as their haircuts. But Kim is probably most well-known for almost connecting the thirty things that are all going on at once, but then nobody listens to her and everyone thinks she’s crazy. Sorry, Kim! I don’t take Paris Hilton’s new beer-fetcher any more seriously than I have to. Moving on.
3. Some TERRORISTS are always involved with some ludicrous threat to destroy the American people. From bombs to biohazards, they always find away, and then
4. Some random, good-looking white family finds themselves the victim of the latter terrorists.
5. You also know you’re watching 24 when you can bet your LIFE on Ryan Chappelle from “Division Headquarters” ruining everyone’s plan and making people’s lives ten times more difficult. Thanks a lot, you bureaucratic fuck.
6. And how could I forget my favorite character, the ever-forthcoming President Palmer; whose life or reputation or election to office is also at stake within the 24-hour range of the show. Be that as it may, you’ll always have my vote, Mr. Palmer, even if you do Auto-Insurance commercials.
7. My other favorite part of the show is how people that you thought were DEAD and GONE FOREVER aka NINA MEYERS or SHERRY PALMER show up with some BS dirty schemes and we all groan when we see their familiar ugly faces framed in this season’s haircut. May the writers continue to bless you with roles on the show, ladies, and twist the plots just the way we like them.
All this being said, I still find myself helplessly addicted to 24 and am often guilty of watching 3, 4, even 5 episodes in a single sitting. To those who are just starting off with the show, or a season: remember to clear your schedule in large periods of time, as 24 will completely engross you to the point of no return!
Ciao for now,
Sebastian
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