TV Review: 24 – 2:00-3:00 AM

Posted by Josh Radde (josh@filmschoolrejects.com) on April 21, 2009

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24 Airs Monday Nights at 9/8c on Fox

Synopsis: Hearing about Agent Moss, Walker and Jack head up a unit to try and contain the man that stole the gas canister. Tony, still undiscovered as the villain, is helping the man get through the FBI blockade.

Review: I’m glad Kim Bauer hasn’t gone home just yet. Something tells me she won’t board that 6:10 to L.A. and that Jack will learn about his grandchild, “Teri” Bauer. Awww. Plus IMDB has her listed through the end of the season.

“24″ submitted another thrilling hour last night. I really hope Tony can step it up as the bad guy, although I’m sure his motives will be explained in the coming episodes – whether it’s strictly monetarily or because he lost a piece of himself when Michelle was blown up – I’m sure the writers will come up with some way to justify why the character we’ve seen for 6 seasons as a loyal sidekick to Jack is now a villain.

Seeing Walker deal with Agent Moss’ death was interesting*. Say what you will about Jack having to deal with people he cares about dying all the time, at least he takes some time to soak it in before moving on. When Bill Buchanan died earlier this season, Jack took a whole commercial break to be sad about it; Renee just gave a few blank stares and went on her way. Although it seemed awkward to have Jack giving her advice, he was right. She has to feel something or else it will effect her judgment. Or something. Either way, it lead to a tense moment between the two of them, which it seems like all serious moments in this season have been inevitably created to do. They’re definitely setting up Walker as the next “Audrey Raines” or “Kate Warner,” except she seems to have some balls and won’t just be the damsel-in-distress. So that’s nice.

Looks like we’re not done with Hodges yet, either. A “replica” of his lawyer, Trisha, is sent to him and it reminded me of the second episode of “24″ Season One when “Naked Mandy” (as she’s been known on the Internet) gets the security card of someone before blowing up a plane (a scene, you’ll remember, that had to be cut on-air because of 9/11) and then gives it to a dude that looks exactly like him when she lands. Neat throwback. But anyway, Hodges was supposed to give himself a nice, clean death via pill via heart attack but it looks like he’ll survive only to come under the interrogation practices of Jack Bauer next week.

As for Jack, I hope every climactic moment of each episode remaining isn’t squelched because Jack is in too much pain, that will get irritating. It’s already irritating. It’s another throwback, this time to Season Three when Jack was going through withdrawals from heroin, except that’s a plotline many “24″ fans would like to forget.

BTW: Whatever happened to Naked Mandy? She got immunity when she tried to blow up Tony in Season Four, I just don’t remember what happened to her after that. Help me out.

* In hindsight, shouldn’t we have gotten a silent send-off for Moss? I figured that when we heard the “beeps” in last week’s episode, it was either because this was such an “OMG” moment or because Moss may not actually be dead (even though he clearly was). We should’ve at least gotten the silent transition to commercial when Renee found out about it. Or was Moss never a character we were supposed to care about?

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  • I think you have to be around for more than one season to get the silent send off with no beeping. Larry's first season was this season. Plus , he was kind of annoying anyways. Did you catch how Renee said someone should call his ex-wife and it sure as hell shouldn't be her. LOL. Nice touch there. Tony played it so well this episode as the villain in hiding. Poor Jack is on to him right until that seizure hits. It's on now. I believe we have like five (?) hours left which means four episodes. Did you catch how Kim's daughter is named Terri (after her mom I am sure)? I sort of called it last week when I said her son's name would be Jack. If the writers can tie all this together nicely this could be on of the best seasons of '24' yet. They have set the bar high all season with more nuggets available to be had. Jack interrogating Jonas Hodges could be a great scene there ... lots of potential. Renee did stop to cry a bit when barking out instructions. I see her breaking down at the end of the season as she has been through a lot in these last 24 hours. The actor who is playing the newest "chief villain" is a popular guy. I forget his name but we could be in for a surprise or two with that as well. We still have some definite loose ends to tie up by the end of the season which is a great thing.
  • Chille
    I just hate how they used Tony being the bad guy for the anchor of the season, then, JUST KIDDING HES GOOD! And now he's the bad guy again.
  • This season has more twists than a corkscrew!

    And that's not a good thing. Put down the Red bulls and write a good story damn it.
  • That was the last we heard of Naked Mandy. I wonder what other situation could bring her back. Her past involvement with Tony could bring a nice twist to the story that.
  • Yeah, I hope they do something with Tony and his plot line not just go back and forth with his alliance.

    Also I thought Moss should of got more of a send off, I thought he was a quality character.
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