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DVD 24 - Season Four
Oh boy. Here we go again! Just another exciting day in the life of 24 super-agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). The season kicks off with a deadly terrorist strike resulting in the kidnapping of his new boss, the U.S. Secretary of Defense James Heller (William Devane). Although a fired, ex-employee of the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), it is no surprise who is going to shift into full gear to bring the terrorists to justice. However, it doesn't take the super-agent long to discover the kidnapping of his boss is part of a much larger plan, master-minded by Habib Marvan (Arnold Voslo) the middle eastern terrorist cell leader the US government has been trying to track down for years. Considered by many to be the best season of the first four, 24 - Season 4 is a definite departure from the first three seasons. For one, the cast is almost entirely new. Second, the pacing of each episode does not seem as frantic. There appears to be a shift from the reliance on plot-shifting cliff hangers (which in some ways dragged down the quality of Season 3), to a focus on complex, over-arcing, multiple storylines, albeit very violent. What may be missing in superficial action clichés is definitely compensated in a richer plot. That's not to say the show has slowed down, it's still amped up beyond anything else on TV, but compared to the previous seasons, 24 has gotten a lot smarter, and in turn, better. --Rob Bracco
This show is the most fun I could possibly have rooting for Big Brother. For being the most openly neo-conservative show on TV they do have a way of avoiding controversy that they could be creating. Let's look at the world of "24." Surveillance has run amok. Stealing computer software leads you to having ties with Islamic terrorists. Having one night stands leads you to have ties with Islamic terrorists. It is not only OK, but rather expected, that you treat liberals as the enemy. And torture, which shows up in nearly every episode, is the only way to save all of God's children from these Islamic terrorists. Alberto Gonzalez himself could not have cooked up a more rosy picture of torture, but more on that later. Still the show wins fans and awards alike, and completely deserve them both. It is possibly the most entertaining thing on TV, and in the year 2006 that is saying something.
What is amazing to me about the show is the way that they are able to continuously create situations for these characters that are both plausible and suspenseful all the while keeping up the break neck pacing that they are so famous for. The very basic premise of this season is so simplistic and over the top. Terrorists (brown of course) are going to steal a nuclear weapon and shoot it at one of the US's main cities. The only hope we useless civilians have is the bravery of Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland). There are, as always, a gazillion side plots here and before all is said and done we will have three presidents, the Chinese, Tony Almeida, gay sex, a white suburban girl, a hunt for a "football," the destruction of Air Force One, and that woman from "House of Sand and Fog" all involved. One of my favorite twists of this season was the introduction of sworn in President Charles Logan played brilliantly by Gregory Itzin. Logan is a man in way over his head but believes that a little tough talk and a few phony smiles will solve anything. Itzin's performance is at once hilarious and depressing, and I hear he only gets better in season 5. I was also intrigued by the angle early on that involved the son of the terrorists who had the bad fortune of having a white girlfriend. Now the parents were obviously delusional if they thought their son wouldn't get a taste for white meat living in the sanitized suburbs of America. That aside, the scene where his mom is left to poison his girlfriend to get her out of the way is played perfectly on a small, domestic level.
But then we have the torture. More than anything it is just stunning how often it shows up. If somebody isn't being tortured, then they are being threatened with torture. If I didn't know any better I would say that the makers of this show have some sort of fetish that involves the intense suffering of others. We also get scene where "tough guys" stomp their feet and cry because liberals are obstructing their ability to torture. I also found it in bad taste that the 1 (!) liberal character on the entire show was shown to be weak, whiny, skuzzy all while having ties to terrorism and, of course, being gay. That is because, as all red blooded conservatives know, all liberals are gay. But hey it is their show they can do what they want. Oh, I forgot to mention, I love this show!!
Best TV Drama
I have watched 24 from the start and I'm hooked! Thank you amazon for such a great price on season four. I am looking foward to purchasing season five as well. Thanks again!
Great Season
In my opinion, with the exception of Season 1, the best Season of the series. Jack Bauer at his best, and a very encompassing plot.
There's not one cougar to be found in 24's dynamic third season, and that's good news for everyone. After Jack Bauer's daughter Kim (Elisha Cuthbert) survived hokey hazards in season 2, she's now a full-time staffer at CTU, the L.A.-based intelligence beehive that's abuzz once again--three years after the events of "Day Two"--when a vengeful terrorist threatens to release a lethal virus that could wipe out much of the country's population. Jack (Kiefer Sutherland) attempts to broker a deal for the virus involving drug kingpin Ramon Salazar (Joaquim de Almeida), whose operation Jack successfully infiltrated at high personal cost: to maintain his cover, he got hooked on heroin. That potentially deadly triangle--drug lords, addiction, and bioterrorism on a massive scale--sets the... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 07 December 2004 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Jack Bauer is having another one of his "very bad days" in the second season of the groundbreaking real-time thriller 24. Once again the hours are ticking by with more guaranteed cliffhangers than a convention of mountain climbers. Holed up in a Los Angeles condo and estranged from his daughter, Jack is no longer on the government payroll; unfortunately for him, this small fact doesn't seem to matter to President David Palmer and the NSA, who call him back in to the CTU and give him 24 hours to infiltrate a terrorist organization that is planning to detonate a dirty bomb in the city of angels. All Jack wants is to get his daughter out of the city, unfortunately Kim's new employer, the abusive father of the child she is nannying, has other ideas.
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Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes places over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you subtract the commercials). Everything takes place in real time, which means no flashbacks, no flash-forwards, no handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked so things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy.
Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done an impressive job of putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) runs around L.A. trying to stall an assassination attempt on an... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 17 September 2002 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Arguably the series' best season to date, season 5 of 24 literally starts with a bang and never lets up, with an intricate executive-level conspiracy to control Central Asia's oil supply. Piling crisis upon crisis in an escalating series of deceptions, twists, and deeply hidden agendas, the day-long ordeal begins with a devastating political assassination connected to a disgraced former CTU agent (Peter Weller) and a radical group of Russian separatists (led by British actor Julian Sands) threatening to release lethal nerve gas in Los Angeles to protest a U.S./Russian treaty about to be signed by President Charles Logan (Gregory Itzin). As Logan's unstable wife Martha (Jean Smart), Secret Service agent Aaron Pierce (Glenn Morshower), and chief of staff Mike Novick (Jude... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 05 December 2006 Usually ships in 24 hours
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True to form, at the beginning of its fourth season J.J. Abrams' Alias proceeded to reinvent itself yet again--and the results looked quite a bit like the first season, but with a decided twist. Super agent Sydney Bristow (Emmy nominee Jennifer Garner) found herself once more working for a covert secret-ops group that was "off the books" and headed up by Arvin Sloane (Ron Rifkin) as she was partnered with... Hey, wait, wasn't Sloane a bad guy before? Well, yes, he was, but having been "rehabilitated" from his evil ways, he's now Sydney's new boss--nevermind the fact that he's trampled all over her life in more ways than one--and head of the CIA's new super-secret division, APO (for Authorized Personnel Only), which also includes all of Sydney's old friends, as well as her... More Info about this DVD DVD Release Date: Released the 25 October 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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