TV Review: 24 – 6:00-8:00 PM

Posted by Josh Radde (josh@filmschoolrejects.com) on March 3, 2009

“24″ Airs at Mondays at 9/8c on Fox

Episode: A 2-hour episode spanning from 6:00 – 8:00 PM.

Synopsis: General Juma takes center stage now that Dubaku is out of the way; Ryan Burnett, one of the masterminds behind the day’s events and Senator Mayer’s (Kurtwood Smith) Chief of Staff, plan to go to the White House; Jack has to ask Chloe to do something questionable (shocking); Walker makes a ballsy decision when seeing that an attack is imminent.

Review: First off, let’s re-cap last week’s highlights since I wasn’t able to get a review up. I thought it had some great moments between Jack and Renee, even better than we had seen before.

“The next time you raise your gun to me, you better be prepared to use it,” says Jack.

“I was,” replies Walker.

Walker also gave Jack a few righteous slaps. Their relationship is amazing, and is developing as a great through-line for this season of “24.” I honestly don’t know if they will end the day making out or killing each other. That being said, the first thing Jack does in the first of tonight’s 2-hour episode is go it alone. But seeing Jack get his hands on a tazer is always a promising proposition. Chloe going head-to-head with Janis is a great nerdy-chick showdown. This show MAY NOT BE big enough for two cyber-babes–a dangerous prospect for those of us who have grown to really like Janeane Garofalo’s Janis.

“You’re reprehensible, Bauer,” says Mayer

“And you sir are weak–unwilling and unable to look evil in the eye and DEAL WITH IT.” Sweet.

The second hour opens with President Taylor removing her eyeglasses dramatically. Now, we’ve all seen this 100 times. Cherry Jones, I’d say scores a 7 on a scale of 10 on “dramatic removal of glasses.” It also opens with a soaking wet Walker. Nice.

But back to the serious aspects of the episode. The editing on Juma’s attack is leading us to believe that they are somehow under the White House. Because APPARENTLY the Potomac River connects with the White House? The action has to commence somehow so we’ll let that ridiculousness slide for now. I will say bringing the action directly to the White House makes the stakes very high. With the action always happening in L.A., there was never a sense that the President or the foundation of the presidency was under a real attack, but within minutes of the second hour, the White House becomes another battleground on “24.” Well done.

Tony Todd as General Juma will be a formidable enemy seeing as within appearing in two episodes he gets to the President with little to no resistance. A villain on “24″ willing to die for his cause is usually one that makes it the furthest. AND LADIES AND GENTLEMEN: IT’S JON VOIGHT TIME!

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