24: Series Finale
“Jack, if I had only listened to you, none of this would have happened.”
So says President Taylor last night at the culmination of Season 8 and the series of 24 as a whole. More fitting words I cannot conjure. For years, Jack Bauer has been the man who broke rules and pushed [...]
24 Season 8: 1:00pm to 2:00pm
Tuesday, May 18, 2010
Wow. I haven’t been this juiced for 24 in a long, long time. I think I can officially come down and say that this Jack Bauer vengeance stampede has saved the final season from inanity. What began as a standard-issue, plot-recycled slab of 24 mediocrity is ending in one of the all [...]
Continue reading...Smallville/Supernatural Season Finales
Sunday, May 16, 2010
Two of the CW’s bread-and-butter hourlongs wrapped up big-time story arcs in their season finales. Smallville and Supernatural may pull small ratings when measured against its competitors, but both shows sports devoted fan bases and the way the seasons went out this year is sure provoke heated discourse from the underground. My [...]
Continue reading...24 Season 8: 12:00pm to 1:00pm
Tuesday, May 11, 2010
Wow. Now that’s an interrogation scene. For eight seasons, Jack Bauer has given the audience loads and loads of tips on how to properly get a captured antagonist to cough up valuable intel, whether it’s using as frayed house lamp cord or simply punching the guy in the chest repeatedly. But this [...]
Continue reading...24 Season 8: 11:00am to 12:00pm
Tuesday, May 4, 2010
As the clock on this final season winds down, we oft-suffering 24 fans have been treated to a fairly big surprise: a plot element that isn’t completely lifted from season prior. I am of course talking about Jack Bauer’s sustained jihad against Russia and anyone who stands in the way of his mission. [...]
Continue reading...24 Season 8: 10:00am to 11:00am
Tuesday, April 27, 2010
Every law enforcement agency including the mall cops has descended upon Jack Bauer. Little do they know, they’re going to lose, because Jack is friends with Michael Madsen. As the perimeters are scrambled, President Taylor and Charles Logan hatch a shady scheme to ensure that terrorist mole Dana Walsh is neutralized, thus preserving [...]
Continue reading...Spartacus: Blood and Sand Season 1 Review
Thursday, April 22, 2010
This past Friday, Starz wrapped up the first season of its hyper-stylized, MA-rated (to the extreme) gladiatorial saga–Spartacus: Blood and Sand.
When I first saw the promos for this, I was intrigued, less about the historical retelling of the Spartacus (and his eventual running point on a massive slave rebellion) and more because it looked a [...]
24 Season 8: 9:00am to 10:00am
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
Jack Bauer is not a happy guy. Following the ground-shaking events of the last few hours—and the shocking use of multiple silent countdown clocks—Bauer is obviously ready to crack some skulls in the six remaining hours he has on network television.
The episode picks up with Jack stewing in the hospital room, lamenting the cooling [...]
24 Season 8: 5:00am to 6:00am
Tuesday, March 30, 2010
You know, up to this point I’ve been pretty okay with the ridiculousness of this season of 24. Day 8 is not one Jack Bauer’s best, for sure, and every episode seems to usher in new levels of inanity, usually associated with Dana Walsh.
But it was this show that really pissed me off. [...]
24 Season 8: 4:00am to 5:00am
Tuesday, March 23, 2010
CTU is in shambles, its motherboards and circuitry and Johnson rods fried from a successful EMP attack. As our favorite bumbling bereaucrats scramble to get back online and once again contribute nothing to the mission of tracking down the nuke rods, Jack Bauer, Cole Ortiz, Owen and some loser CTU stiff who’s certainly going [...]
Continue reading...24 Season 8: 3:00am to 4:00am
Tuesday, March 16, 2010
Jack Bauer is oh so close to scoring the big lead that finally brings him to the deadly nuclear rods of deadliness, but awful subplots keep getting in the way. Also it doesn’t help that the New York version of CTU is even less competent than the LA precinct and those guys allowed two nukes to be lit off on American soil.
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