24: Season 1

24: Season 1

Okay,

So I know this is a blog intended to review movies I have seen, new and old.

BUT....

WOW!

I have just finished watching 24 season one and it was brilliant!

The concept of the show 24 is that the sh

ow from start to finish is twenty-four hours; twenty-four episodes, and each episode is exactly one hour.  Thus the show being one full day of Jack Bauer's life. (commercials are even counted in the time.)

Agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) works for a counter terrorist unit based out of Los Angeles.  Jack along with his wife and daughter are in the midst of mending a family issue as the viewers are thrown into the plot.  I will not get into many details because I WANT you to watch this fantastic television show.  

There is an assassination threat on a politician played by Dennis Haysbert at midnight, the day of the presidential primary, and Jack Bauer is assigned to the case.  This starts the countdown.  That same night Jack's daughter Kimberly (Elisha Cuthbert) sneaks out of the house with her friend and fall into the wrong hands of some nasty people.  Jack's wife played by Leslie Hope is left by herself and the other girl's "father" to find their daughter while Jack is at the CTU.  Good agents die, "dirty" agents are introduced, and a 747 explodes all in the first two episodes, and I will say the most most wonderful ending I have seen for a television series.  There is a massive story that is going to unfold, be prepared! 

Kiefer Sutherland won a Golden Globe for best actor for his performance, and the show was nominated for Best Television Series in 2002.

I think this show is a great for a family that has boys above the age of twelve, and any audience over the age of fifteen.  Your boys will be running around with their toy guns and saving the world under the name of Jack Bauer.  As for me I don't play with my toy guns any longer, but the show engulfed me, and at many times my heart was racing, hands were clenched and sweaty; I couldn't stop biting my nails.

I promise you will love it!

I give 24: Season 1...

5 STARS!