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“24” Day 7, Hours 14 And 15: What Does Hodges Want?

April 1, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By Elaine B Lesson learned: People will follow anyone who pays them enough. Recently, I reported that, according to Kiefer Sutherland, Jack and Renee will be an item next year. But after the last two hours, I am wondering if Day 8 will, as was done with season two of Breaking Bad for obvious reasons, start immediately after Day 7 ends. It can be informally called “Jack gets a few moments of bliss before he dies.” That’s because, in Hour 14, during one of the most thrilling chase sequences of any season, he was exposed to the nasty bioweapon Starkwood […]

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“24” Day 7, Hour 14: Morris Should Have Stalled For Time

March 17, 2009 StayTuned Staff

Lesson Learned: “Every war worth fighting involves collateral damage.” Thank Jonas Hodges for the lesson of last night’s episode and for the wonderfully warped remark, “Tell them to pack their pajamas and toothbrushes, it’s going to be a long night.” That comment puts Hodges as villain in a spot reserved for the “mayor-who-turned-into-a-big-snake” in an end-of-season apocalypse on Buffy the Vampire Slayer. Maybe Hodges will get blown up, too, before Day 7 ends? Maybe the bioweapon he imported will even turn him into a big snake first. Now that would be an impressive climax. Day 7 has so far resembled […]

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“Mars” Departs, “Ashes” Arrives

March 4, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By ElaineB ABC announced Monday that it is canceling Life on Mars – bad news for fans of the quirky American version of the British series. But if there is one thing the network folks have learned from the disastrous season a few years back – in which heavily plotted shows like Surface and Invasion simply Vanished from the air – it’s that even short-run series must have a resolution. So if you have been immersed in this throwback-to-the-past police drama, you’ll at least be able to find out what happened to Sam before the series takes its final bow […]

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“24” Day 7, Hour 10: Money Doesn’t Talk, It Screams

February 24, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By ElaineB Lesson learned: Never underestimate the corrupting power of greed. For the last nine hours, I’ve been concentrating on the theme of force vs. law (or torture vs. reason, depending on your perspective). But now 24‘s second theme is emerging and, in these troubled times — in which bankers, stock and real estate brokers and Bernie Madoff destroyed countless lives and the American economy with their greed — it’s likely to be accepted as reasonable by just about everyone that White House and FBI staff can be bought with diamonds. Sadly, the most unbelievable thing in hour 10 was […]

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24 Day 7, Hour 9 — The things we do for love

February 17, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By ElaineB Lesson learned: Google prospective boyfriends I used to work with a gorgeous young woman with a very active dating schedule. The secret to her success in finding good men, she said, was weeding out the losers. She googled names, checked arrest records, whatever she could find before she moved beyond that first coffee date. To me, trusting soul that I am, her actions seemed a bit extreme. But Marika, Dubaku/Samuel’s girlfriend, should have done the same. Of course, she would have come up with nothing, as Samuel did not exist, but she might have tried. And, as noted […]

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Cherry Jones discusses playing Pres. Taylor on “24”

February 16, 2009 StayTuned Staff

By ElaineB It’s always a pleasure when a network makes a star available during the season, as FOX did last week with Cherry Jones. In a long interview, she gave her thoughts on her role and working with Jack/Kiefer. For those coming to this story a bit late, her interview took place just days after the 24 episode in which Taylor meets Jack Bauer at the White House. Cherry Jones on her familiarity with the series before she was cast: When I found out I had the meeting, I went and rented the first season and watched the first two […]