Why do people get so excited about the show 24?

Question

I gave it several chances but could never get into it.

Answer 1

I don't believe the hype! I am bored myself by it.

Answer 2

If you try to get into 24 in the middle of a season, you are most likely not gonna like it. You have to watch it from Episode 1 Season 1. Then you know what's going on at all times. Otherwise, your just lost and not sure who's who. It really is an awsome show.

Answer 3

For those of us that gre up during the cold war, it brings back the fond memories and fears of being nuked by the Russians,,, then again, are attention span isn't wasted on such intelligent shows like Next and Laguna Hills, we still actually think about geo-politics and its possible ramifications, when exploited into a weekly drama,,, I will be in my underground bunker if you need me after the nuke is dropped.

Answer 4

Because of the suspense. You can't start watching it in the middle of the season and expect to "get it". Try renting the first season, then decide whether it's worth it.

Answer 5

I've watched it since day 1 of season 1 and I have to say... It is freakin awesome!!

Answer 6

You're a fool. 24 is awesome. Have you seen Jack Bauer???

Answer 7

cause its a good show
me, my mom, my dad, and my little sister have seen every single episode made. we love it

Answer 8

The show is easy to follow and is in real time. It is good versus evil. People like to see good win out. 24 uses real life incedances sometimes. It is a good felling to know that there is an agency out in the real world always combating terrorism and evil. Be the evil forien or domestic.

Real time

An example of a 24 split-screen with the running clock24 is a thriller that purports to be shown in "real-time," with each minute of airtime corresponding to a minute in the lives of the characters. This real-time nature is emphasized by an on-screen digital clock appearing from time to time—this corresponds roughly to the minute of the broadcast hour, factoring in commercials. The writers often take advantage of the real-time nature of the show by having the characters place time windows on certain events such as terrorist threats, thus strongly hinting that the attack/event will occur before the end of the episode.

The action switches between different locations tracing parallel adventures of different characters involved in the same overarching plot. The result is long sections of unseen narrative for each character. A main character might only be seen for a quarter of an episode's overall running time. The notice preceding each episode announcing that "events occur in real time" was only included in the first three episodes of the first season, as well as the premieres of the second and third seasons.

Over the course of the hour, three minutes are added to the clock during commercial breaks to allow time for the opening "previously on 24" segments and the preview of the next episode over the closing credits.


[edit] Storytelling and visual style
24 employs fast-paced and complex plots.

A recurring theme of 24 has characters faced with the decision of whether or not to let something tragic happen for the sake of a greater good. In Season 2, a member of the presidential staff has the chance to warn CTU of an imminent attack on their building, but believes that doing so would put the culprits on alert and thus cause a valuable trail to go cold. A similar situation occurs prior to an attack on a shopping mall in Season 5. In Season 3, the President and CTU agents must choose between the life of a high-ranking CTU official and the imminent threat of further attacks. Season 4 is notable for a scene in which two men—one of whom possesses crucial information—lie dying in an emergency room, creating the ethical dilemma of whom to save. In addition, the sitting President often has to deal with a similar quandary. In the first hour of Season 6, Jack Bauer is asked to sacrifice himself in exchange for the location of a known terrorist.

The first season began and ended at midnight, leading to the situation that the main characters had to go almost two days without sleep. Bauer's sleep deprivation featured heavily as a plot element in the series. Later series have tended to use a less punishing time window, starting in the morning.

Early on, the series frequently used split-screen action to follow multiple plots, although in later seasons this was scaled back somewhat and confined mostly to phone conversations and shots leading into and out of commercial breaks.

Season synopses

Season One
Main article: 24 (season 1)
Day 1 starts and ends at midnight, on the day of the California presidential primary. Bauer's wife and daughter are kidnapped by a terrorist group plotting to kill presidential candidate David Palmer. A mole inside L.A. Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU), Jamey Farrell, is exposed, but does not provide any information that could help the investigation. When it is revealed that the man behind his family's kidnapping is someone from his past, Jack eventually realizes everything that has happened has to do with both him and Senator David Palmer personally, while information is uncovered that there may be another mole inside CTU. Jack ultimately has to balance his professional agency role with his family life.


[edit] Season Two
Main article: 24 (season 2)
Day 2 starts and ends at 8:00 a.m. In Day 2, approximately 18 months after Season One, Jack is dealing with the death of his wife, Teri Bauer, and the estrangement of his daughter, Kim. Jack is no longer working for CTU, but is forced into action when the White House receives intelligence that a nuclear bomb will be detonated in Los Angeles over the course of the day. President David Palmer counts on Jack as the only man he can trust to find the terrorist cell in possession of the bomb and to stop its detonation. Featuring political and social turmoil, more lives will be at stake as another conspiracy arises regarding a taped conversation about an attack on America, which was uncovered after the bomb crisis.


[edit] Season Three
Main article: 24 (season 3)
Day 3 starts and ends at 1:00 p.m. In Day 3, three years after narrowly averting a war with three middle eastern countries, Jack returns from a one-year deep undercover operation consisting of infiltrating the Salazar drug family. At the same time, a van drops off a dead body infected with a bio-weapon at the National Health Services. CTU then receives a phone call threatening to release the virus if Ramon Salazar is not released from prison in 6 hours. Jack has a new partner, Chase Edmunds, who is also romantically involved with Kim, who has now become an employee at CTU. Jack is also fighting a heroin addiction he developed during his undercover assignment, which close family and friends are unaware of. Ultimately Jack discovers that the mastermind behind the virus is Stephen Saunders, who had worked with Jack years earlier on the Operation: Nightfall assignment. He now seeks retribution against the United States for being left behind and tortured for two years.


[edit] Season Four
Main article: 24 (season 4)
Day 4 starts and ends at 7:00 a.m. It has been 18 months since Jack Bauer averted yet another deadly crisis in Los Angeles. Subsequently, he was fired from CTU by the new director, Erin Driscoll. He now has a new lease on life as a senior advisor to Secretary of Defense James Heller. He has also found a new love in the form of his boss's daughter, Audrey Raines. But, an impending hostage crisis concerning his latest boss leaves Jack's new life in shambles. Jack finds he must go back to his old calling as a CTU agent in order to save the life he has made for himself. As the day unfolds several contingency plans are revealed, all devised by Turkish terrorist Habib Marwan. Each of Marwan's attacks proves even more devastating than its predecessor and CTU races to find him before he can unleash unprecedented terror upon America. To complicate matters, a secret Chinese Consulate mission goes wrong which sets up serious consequences for Jack in future seasons.


[edit] Season Five
Main article: 24 (season 5)
Day 5 starts and ends at 7:00 a.m. Eighteen months after Day 4, Jack is living under a new alias, as Frank Flynn. He is currently living with Diane and Derek Huxley, a family near the Mojave Desert, California. Meanwhile, an unknown figure orders the assassination of the only four people who know Jack is alive — Tony Almeida, Michelle Dessler, Chloe O'Brian and former President David Palmer — as an attempt to frame him. He returns to L.A. to clear his name, when a hostage situation erupts. It is soon realized that this was only a diversion by a collaboration of conspirators and Russian separatists to obtain 20 canisters of Sentox VX nerve gas. The gas was originally to be used to attack Moscow, but the separatists begin to release it in L.A. in retaliation after they discover a U.S. agent has infiltrated their organization. Jack attempts to search for the remaining canisters and expose treachery that goes deep within the White House.


[edit] Season Six
Main article: 24 (season 6)
Day 6 starts (and will end) at 6:00 a.m. Taking place twenty months after the events of Day 5, Jack is released from Chinese custody to CTU agents in Los Angeles under a deal brokered by the new President Wayne Palmer. Jack is then sent to Abu Fayed to be sacrificed, in exchange for information regarding the whereabouts of Hamri Al-Assad, who is thought to have been causing a wave of suicide bombings across America over the last 11 weeks; however, Jack discovers that CTU has bargained with Fayed to hand over the wrong man, leaving the real terrorist (Fayed himself) free to continue his reign of terror upon various U.S. locations. Americans are in a state of panic because of all the attacks, and Jack, with the help of Bill Buchanan, Chloe O'Brian and others at CTU as well as Karen Hayes, Thomas Lennox and President Wayne Palmer in the White House, must stop these terrorists from detonating three Soviet-designed suitcase nuclear weapons as well as provide damage control for one that has already exploded in Valencia and another that almost went off somewhere in middle LA.


Cast
See also: List of characters in 24, Minor characters in 24, and Minor CTU agents in 24

The current castThe 24 cast has varied every season. The changes have ranged from small to almost the full cast. The only actors who appear in each of the six seasons are the main star, Kiefer Sutherland, and Glenn Morshower (Aaron Pierce, Special Agent with the United States Secret Service; a relatively minor character until Season Five).

The show has always had many guest stars not billed as main cast as well as Special Guest Stars from time to time. Special Guest Stars are usually former cast members making a return appearance, which can last from a single episode to almost an entire season, as do some guest stars, or characters usually played by well known film (Phillip Bauer, Victor Drazen, Lynn McGill) and television actors (Noah Daniels).

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