24 - Season Two

Buy This Item 24 - Season Two by Fox Network  Available from Amazon  $46.99  on 11-14-2008     Various Reader Reviews Many shows undergo a sophmore slump, but 24 manages to acheive nearly the same levels of excitement as seasons 1 and 3. The show takes a nosedive from season 4 on, when the writers seem to have run out of plot ideas. Season 2 is still fresh with life. We are introduced to our first nuclear threat, while it was entertaining still (season 4, 5, and 6 all get nuclear so it wears out by then...). The focus on the Warners and Reza was masterful, at first the viewer does not see their importance, but you KNOW one of them is involved, just which one? The reason this season did not merit five stars in my opinion was that the story lost some muscle once the nuke was detonated (a little more that halfway). Also, the story arc involving Kim Bauer was a little ridiculous: kidnapping, car theft, dead woman in trunk, boyfriend losing legs, cougars wanting to attack, crazy man with bomb shelter.... The involvment of Sherry Palmer in the story got a little overboard as did the removal of Palmer from power. I found the ending a little anti-climatic because all Jack was doing was trying to prove that an audion track was a forgery...apparently killing a bunch of terrorists in the LA Collesium will prove that... We also got to see a glimpse of what would have made an amazing plot thread: the rumored 'Sons of Liberty' or Freemasons or whatever you want to call them. Basically a group of super wealthy and powerful men who use their influence to truly run the country and the economy. Using them as a plot backdrop could have created a mystifying element similar to the Smoking Man and company in X-files; however, the writers never revisit this aspect. I bumped the rating up to four stars since the first half rates a five and the second half rates a three.

24 - Season Two Available from Amazon Price: $46.99 Updated on 11-14-2008.

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