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A brief article about tonight's ep of 24.
24 isn't realistic -- but it is entertaining
By Alex Strachan, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 1, 2010 4:09 AM
24, the real-time thriller that made Jack Bauer a household name and rebooted Kiefer Sutherland's acting career, has had a typically up-and-down season so far.
Tonight's episode picks up at night -- it's 9 p.m.; do you know where Jack Bauer is? -- and all the old signposts are back. There are bad guys. The baddies have their hands on enriched uranium and, presumably, are hoping to blow something up real good. Jack Bauer is once again in a race against time to stop them.
Women are once again bearing the brunt of 24's violence -- it's disconcerting to see Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff playing a victim and, tonight, the formerly straight-arrow Agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) has been grabbed by the baddies and is being coerced to do very bad things while working undercover.
24's stock TV villain at the moment is the Russian mob, which is both safe and politically correct: Russian mobsters have yet to form their own advocacy group, unless, of course, you count the Russian mob. In tonight's episode, Callum Keith Rennie, a veteran of everything from the homegrown Due South and Da Vinci's Inquest to Battlestar Galactica, has a just-watch-me turn as a Russian baddie. Rennie seethes with coiled menace and malevolence as the mobster who would otherwise be a stock TV villain, and he's nailed the Russian accent cold.
24 is silly and even ludicrous at times. Despite the ticking clock and a seemingly uncanny ability to foreshadow the future, 24 has never been particularly realistic in its depiction of a working police agency, but it's still entertaining on a comic book level: It's a chase thriller for adolescent boys. We continue to buy into it because the actors obviously take it so seriously, from Sutherland on down.
Still, it would be nice if Wersching's Agent Walker and Sackhoff's Dana Walsh stopped playing the victim and started fighting back. The scuzzy ex-boyfriend and the Russian baddie need a serious straightening out, as a certain hockey analyst would say. (9p.m., Fox, Global)
24 isn't realistic -- but it is entertaining
By Alex Strachan, Canwest News ServiceFebruary 1, 2010 4:09 AM
24, the real-time thriller that made Jack Bauer a household name and rebooted Kiefer Sutherland's acting career, has had a typically up-and-down season so far.
Tonight's episode picks up at night -- it's 9 p.m.; do you know where Jack Bauer is? -- and all the old signposts are back. There are bad guys. The baddies have their hands on enriched uranium and, presumably, are hoping to blow something up real good. Jack Bauer is once again in a race against time to stop them.
Women are once again bearing the brunt of 24's violence -- it's disconcerting to see Battlestar Galactica's Katee Sackhoff playing a victim and, tonight, the formerly straight-arrow Agent Renee Walker (Annie Wersching) has been grabbed by the baddies and is being coerced to do very bad things while working undercover.
24's stock TV villain at the moment is the Russian mob, which is both safe and politically correct: Russian mobsters have yet to form their own advocacy group, unless, of course, you count the Russian mob. In tonight's episode, Callum Keith Rennie, a veteran of everything from the homegrown Due South and Da Vinci's Inquest to Battlestar Galactica, has a just-watch-me turn as a Russian baddie. Rennie seethes with coiled menace and malevolence as the mobster who would otherwise be a stock TV villain, and he's nailed the Russian accent cold.
24 is silly and even ludicrous at times. Despite the ticking clock and a seemingly uncanny ability to foreshadow the future, 24 has never been particularly realistic in its depiction of a working police agency, but it's still entertaining on a comic book level: It's a chase thriller for adolescent boys. We continue to buy into it because the actors obviously take it so seriously, from Sutherland on down.
Still, it would be nice if Wersching's Agent Walker and Sackhoff's Dana Walsh stopped playing the victim and started fighting back. The scuzzy ex-boyfriend and the Russian baddie need a serious straightening out, as a certain hockey analyst would say. (9p.m., Fox, Global)