What am I talking about? The Keifer and the Fox show 24 of course! [Incidentally, my two other favorite characters on my two other favorite shows are named Jack (A.D.A. Jack McCoy on Law and Order, and Jack O'Neill (born Richard Dean Anderson, but better known as MacGyver) on Stargate SG-1] Now if you’ve seen 24 and live in the real world (not some peachy keen princessland), you know its the perfect show. The only problem with having watched the best show ever put on television (doing 3 seasons in less than 2 months, averaging 4 episodes per day) is it makes all the other shows VERY VERY SNORINGLY boring. With only 24 episodes a year, the withdrawal symptoms are bad, and nothing can really satisfy that 24 fix like a 24 marathon (not even watching a new episode of season 5 each week).

Sure, Law and Order, Stargate SG-1, and some of those History Channel shows are still entertaining and I keep up with most of them, they just make the time go by till the next Monday at 9pm. What makes 24 perfect and overshadows all the other shows is 24 haseverything…suspense, drama, family, power struggle, love, honor, action, technology, ingenuity…the list goes on and on- AND THERE’S A TON OF IT! It’s actually much worse when you watch it on DVD like we did, there’s no chance to take a breath during clock’s “dum dum dum” ticks where the commercials would’ve been.

The writers of 24 stuff so much into each episode, and each season, other shows would need several seasons to pack in all those events…not to mention the events on 24 are happening in “real time.” They don’t waste any time with worthless dialog or doctors playing footsies under the sheets with the nurses. As if that wasn’t enough, to pack several seasons worth of events into ONE 24 HR DAY, they have several storylines happening simultaneously.

This show, the events, dialog, scenarios, and solutions are truly groundbreakingly astonishing. Some scenes make people squimish, and you don’t ever want to be in ANY of the character’s shoes, even some minimum wage janitor out in the middle of Bakersfield. So why is this so addicting if watching it makes you want to jump out of your skin? Maybe because with the amount of terrorism today, we’re reminded of how out of control everything is and VERY extreme and VERY desperate measures may not be so extreme anymore. Still, what happens to Jack Bauer and the cast of 24 over a 24 hour period? No way, not even a cracked up Superman. Oh, and it’s never just a 24 hour period…there’s always the morning or day before the action starts.

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