It is with a mixture of excitement and dread that I opened the package I received yesterday. Excitement because the latest series of 24 has been released. Dread because it means that I won’t be getting much sleep for the next fortnight.
24 is a TV show set over 24 hours of a day, usually where terrorists are up to no good and CTU (Counter Terrorism Unit) Los Angeles are out to stop them. Led by Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland), each episode plays in real time as the good guys race to catch the bad guys before innocent people pay the price for their government’s something or other.
The show moves at such a pace, and with a cliffhanger at the end of each episode, that pulling yourself away from the TV without “watching just one more episode” is akin to going cold turkey (perhaps).
So last night we put Ben to bed and sat down to watch “one or two episodes, just to see what happens”. After all we have lived through four previous bad days for Jack Bauer so, you know, we can handle it, take it or leave it, no big deal.
Four episodes later we crawled in to bed happy that Jack had saved the hostages in the airport, exhausted from edge of seat sitting we were pleased that there was a lull in the action, albeit so the bad guys could retrieve their bioweapons…
We might watch one tonight, only one though, you know, just for fun…
