"Binge Watching "24" Maybe a SPOILER or two" Topic

The 24 episode tv series that supposedly takes place in a single day.
Some observations. I have 2 "hours" left on Season 6.

1. It's a very funny show, albeit unintentionally.
2. Jack Bauer must get at least 3 concussions per day.
3. His daughter probably gets kidnapped at least 3 times a day. No wonder she's no longer on the show.
4. CTU needs to do some serious vetting and reference checking. All those moles!
5. The 25th Amendment gets a serious workout.
6. I have a hard time deciding which is more dysfunctional. CTU as an office or the Bauer family.
7. My favorite Holy **** moment: "George. Get me a hacksaw!" in Season 2.
8. Whisper and shout. Whisper and shout.
9. President Logan looks an awful lot like Richard Nixon, until he grew a beard. I trust Nixon more.
10. Some obnoxious bureaucrats may rise to the occasion and achieve greatness, but they're still jerks. George Mason, Ryan Chapelle, Tom Lennox, to name a few.
11. Time is rather … fluid. Maybe that's where Game of Thrones got the idea for the King's Highway.
12. "I'm sorry. I only tortured you for information because the CTU mole lied about you. Dinner later?"

I get a kick out of the liberal actors (I know, an oxymoron) who signed on to the show, read their lines and got paid, and then blasted the show as right wing propaganda. I'm looking at you James Cromwell and Janeanne Garofolo. What did they expect? "They looked at me strangely when I asked if my character had any redeeming qualities!" Hey. You're supposed to be a Bad Guy. Shut up and cash the check.
At least Kiefer Sutherland didn't hold it against Kal Penn, since he made him his press secretary in Designated Survivor.

It's a shoot em up action show, with Jack Bauer doing very dodgy things. The silliness is not all that apparent if you watch it over the course of a full television season, October to April. But when you watch 3+ episodes per night and finish off the season in a week, it's downright hilarious.
In more than one season (6…) it seems like they ran out of plot after 18 hours, and needed desperately to fill 6 more. Hello Audrey Raines! Nina Meyers, you vixen. Come on down!

IMO Season 7 was the most poorly written season. It seemed to me that they started with writing the end of the show and wrote the show in reverse until they arrived at episode 1. I don't know if this makes sense. Watch it and see what you think.

Starting it next week.
Oh wait!
Better see if Santa brings it!

I seem to remember a screen writers' strike during one of tge seasons. Was 7 the one?

Writers strike was between 6 and 7. Hence the TV movie in between, "24--Redemption". Guess they didn't want to call it the obvious "2".

I want to assume you're also accompanying your marathon with at least one of the 24 drinking games,e.g. whenever Jack says "Dammit!" or yells at somebody:

youtu.be/vhzacl88gjs

There are others to choose from:

drinkiwiki.com/TwentyFour

Happy drinking!

My drinking game is triggered by "Within the hour".

I think I stopped shortly after Jack's daughter was menaced by mountain lion. Congrats on the stamina to do 6 seasons!

The wife and I watched all of them. We had fun counting all of Jack's kills.

I don't think watching 3 episodes a night really counts as binge watching this particular program.

You should really just block out a weekend, start the DVD at whatever time it's supposed to be ("this episode takes place between 6 and 7 am"), and hang in there for the next 24 consecutive hours.