Don't watch it while eating dinner.
But I am all for the torturing to gain info on terrorists themes they have :)
I hardly ever watch any TV except reruns of COPS and maybe a football game here and there. Since getting my video iPod, I've downloaded two TV shows that I think are okay. One of them is "Lost" - a show about an airplane that crashed on a remote island and all sorts of weird things start happening with them. The other show is "The Office" which is a sitcom that I can tolerate because it does not have an intelligence insulting laughtrack and it is about a typical American office that quite funny. I especially liked the episodes that dealt with political correctness like that "Sexual Harrassment" episode in which some corporate flunky came to the branch office to talk about sexual harrassment in the workplace.
So what of this "24" show? Liberal crap? Or is it worth checking out?
I do not think this show is available yet on iTunes.
Buy the DVDs of 24. It's that good. Nothing liberal (or conservative) about it at all. It's just a good show.
It's probably in the eye of the beholder (or viewer), but I think of it as a patriotic show. Bauer is the kind of hero we all hope we have in our secret services--and probably do, but we'll never hear about them.
It's a great thread and a great show. I'm addicted!
Personally, I'm not a fan. It's just a little too much--all Jack Bauer seems to do is run around yelling "NOOOOOOOOO" as yet another thing goes wrong. And there's always a mole. It seems to me that they make it up as they go along, with no plan as to the direction of the plot from week to week.
That said, a lot of people like the show. Jack Bauer is a man of action and is not PC in the least. You might want to rent the earlier seasons to watch from Hour 1, because you'd never catch up if you start in the middle of the season.
Many people call it the greatest show ever--I call it mildly entertaining at first, then more and more annoying as the season progresses, until the point where I can't watch it anymore.
In another season the SecDef tells his reprobate son to 'spare him the sixth grade Michael Moore logic'.
Lots of action, plots twists and major characters do go to CTU heaven from time to time.
I don't know how much this matters but it's one of Rush Limbaugh's favorite shows. He even spends time on the set when he can. It's probably the least PC shows out there. One hour of hard hitting drama and action.
Sam - I'm right there as far as TeeVee. But, do yourself a big favor. Check this out. Join the thread tomorrow night. You will be lost as to the plot lines; but, it is one hell of a ride.
Good guys vs bad guys. No bs.
I rented the previous season's DVD's to get up to speed.
Save yourself before it's too late. If you start watching, you'll quickly learn that it's totally and completely addictive. By that time, you'll be hooked.
The President is shown to be inept and weak, the Vice Pres is shown to be a power grabber and the Chief of staff deals with terrorists to sell Nerve gas.
Other than that it may have some ???????? little real stuff in it.
Best show on television. I single-handedly am responsible for getting my roommate, and my mother and father back home, addicted to this show.
If nothing else, you will be so envious of Bauer's cell phone. It works anywhere and never runs out of battery. Yet it looks like an off the shelf old Star Tac!
Except for sports, I never watch TV. Almost everything that appears on the screen is pabulum, and seems to have been written by high school drop-outs and directed by an idiot; the actors are mostly Gen X post-adolescents, with all the attendant delusions. Yet, after reading all the posts here on Free Republic about this show, I rented the first DVD of the first season, shows 1-4. Loved it. It's just sufficiently intelligent and well-written to be credible, without the usual Hollyweird agenda, and just spectacular enough to be fun. I'm looking forward now to catching up on four years or so of past shows. It's worth a look, IMO, and that's a recommendation from an arch-conservative who hates TV.
But I am all for the torturing to gain info on terrorists themes they have :)
I watched last season.That pretty much cured me of any desire to see more.
It's bubble gum. Expertly paced, slick, and fairly suspenseful—but bubble gum nonetheless. I like empty calories as much as the next guy, but the 'running clock' device ran stale after ten or so episodes.
Is it better than most of the crap on television? Yes. But talk about damning with faint praise.
By the way... I rented one DVD of the first season, figuring I'd play five or ten minutes of it, and, if it was no good, remove the disk from the player, take the thing back to the rental shop, and forget the show forever. I watched the entire four hours straight through without a pause.
"So what of this "24" show? Liberal crap? Or is it worth checking out?"
Definately NOT liberal crap. You might not like the current story line, as the feckless president is obviously a dead ringer for Richard Nixon. Rent the first season on DVD. Watch one episode and you will be HOOKED! Hubby and I watched three in a row the other night (we'd been on vacation and recording them), had there been six, seven, eight recorded I think we would have stayed up all night and watched them all. I've heard of people who watch the whole season, all 24 hours, straight through.
I sincerly think it is the most edge of your seat exciting TV show ever made. Sure, there are lots of silly parts, but taken as pure entertainment it is great.
And the producing/writing team behind the show is very Conservative friendly.
Last year, Rush visited the 24 set and was impressed with everyone he met. 
And this photo was taken just two weeks ago ... 
But all of that is beside the point. 24 is one of the best--if not the best--show on TV.
[Is it any good? Or is it just another liberal claptrap show like "West Wing." ]
Take West Wing, rotate 180 degrees. It is great.
Last year I got hooked on it big time. I went out and got the first three seasons on DVD. Year One (or Day One), I thought was fairly average. They got progressively better. Season 4 remains tops however, followed by this year.