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Nearly two years ago, I watched the third series of 24<\/em> in 24 hours<\/a>. I’ve not seen any since and, thanks to a colleague, find myself in possession of the series 4 box set<\/a>\"\". I couldn’t resist the temptation to watch the whole thing today.<\/p>\n

I don’t fancy staying up all night, so I’m aiming to watch in 17-18 hours, just over the actual length of the series – despite being in real time, they have to allow for ad breaks and recaps.<\/p>\n

Two episodes in and there’s been a clumsy infodump; a CTU PowerPoint display full of nonsense apparently designed to impress the viewers while presumably baffling those in the meeting; the dreadful line “Looks like someone’s trying to corrupt the internet”; a first twist you could spot a mile off; and about 11 deaths, averaging 6.5<\/strike> 5.5 an hour.<\/p>\n

It takes itself terribly seriously but in some ways is as much hammy hokum as Sunset Beach<\/em>. Great \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

Update:<\/strong> Halfway through and the confirmed death count is around 58 (just under 5 an episode) but potentially much higher if you include character not seen on screen. Only one episode with no killings – this is not a quiet show. Several significant twists, and one big “Yay!” moment.<\/p>\n

Update II:<\/strong> Finished around 2.30am last night. Worth watching with plenty of exciting bits, although, as always, some scenes stretch the suspension of disbelief and there were a few too many moments of frustration where you could see a twist coming and wished the characters would notice. There were the obligatory 24<\/em> ingredients: a token English actor; a CTU mole (rerun of Day 1); constitutional politicking (rerun of Day 2); some family plots you just didn’t care about (rerun of anything with Kim Bauer in); product placement (and I mean you, Cisco Systems); computer screens showing impressive nonsense; and characters from previous series prised into the plot.<\/p>\n

There was one funny line in the 24 episodes and, like the series as a whole, I suspect it wasn’t supposed to be funny. There is one more “Yay!” moment before the end.<\/p>\n

The folks at CTU are declared the best agents there are, and yet the organisation continues to display dysfunction that would put The Office<\/em> to shame, and every field agent other than Jack Bauer is rubbish.<\/p>\n

An actor turns up who’s been in The West Wing<\/em> (RIP) and Lost<\/em>, the other two American shows I watch. There’s a lot of crossover between The West Wing<\/em> and 24<\/em> (not least Jim Robinson from Neighbours<\/em><\/a> who was a Cabinet member in both), but Evan Handler<\/a> is the first actor I’ve spotted in all three. (Mid-update update:<\/strong> Look! Jim Robinson from Neighbours<\/em><\/a> is in Lost<\/em> too! Hurrah!)<\/p>\n

Favourite line: “I was inappropriately blunt, wasn’t I?”<\/p>\n

Most similar Doctor Who<\/em> story: The Mind of Evil<\/em>.<\/p>\n

Final death count: around 106 characters shown on screen, with at least several hundred others referred to.<\/p>\n

Verdict: Good. If the first three were your sort of thing, you’ll enjoy Day 4.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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