MySpace Begins Selling 24
Rupert Murdoch's MySpace is to offer Burger King-sponsored episodes of 24 from May 22.
Posted to Video by TeevBlogger on May 17, 2006 04:48 PM
24 - Hour 22: The Bitch (Slap) is Back!
A reunion! Our old pal Sentox; Aaron Pierce, bloodied but not transferred to Washington; and Henderson, steely as ever. Can Behrooz be far behind?
Posted to Video by Mary K. Williams on May 17, 2006 11:51 AM
TV Review: 24 Day 5: 4:00 AM - 5:00 AM
Featuring The Gong of Time, The Sentox MaxKill VX-1/6 UberDeathCloud, The Hood of Infinite Disguises, and The Cone Of Silence...Oh, wait...
Posted to Video by Jeff Kouba on May 17, 2006 01:55 AM
TV Review: 24 Episode 22: The Bad Liar, The Bitch Slap, and the Wardrobe
“I don’t need another excuse to put a bullet in your brain.” Our hero, Jack Bauer, talking to Henderson in last night's episode.
Posted to Video by Victor Lana on May 16, 2006 09:05 AM
TV Review: 24 - Hour 21: Smoking Guns
There is a smoking gun. Logan wants to smoke Jack with a gun. He just might smoke himself.
Posted to Video by Mary K. Williams on May 12, 2006 05:57 AM
A Brief Survey for 24 Fans
Now it's your turn to answer a few questions, 24 fans.
Posted to Video by Victor Lana on May 10, 2006 09:21 AM
24 Day 5: 3:00 AM - 4:00 AM
A Jack-ku The graphic violence warning is among the clouds. My mood is tender. And I ask again, what was violent about this episode, let alone graphic? When the recaps started, I thought I was watching the wrong episode, because it went back to...
Posted to Video by Jeff Kouba on May 9, 2006 02:43 PM
24, Episode 21: The Tale of the Tape
I don’t think the loss of another major character will be accepted by fans; however, one thing fans of 24 have come to expect is the unacceptable.
Posted to Video by Victor Lana on May 9, 2006 10:52 AM
TV Review: 24 - Hour 20: A Bumpy Night
Jerky guy apparently loves the snarling Chloe. Sits down to "help." Tasered! That was Easy!
Posted to Video by Mary K. Williams on May 3, 2006 01:45 PM
24 Day 5: 2:00 AM - 3:00 AM
Hijacker Jack, and does tasing cause brain damage?
Posted to Video by Jeff Kouba on May 2, 2006 12:37 PM
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Eric -
Thanks for putting this all together!
2 - Eric Olsen
thanks for doing such great reviews!
3 - Glen Boyd
Seperated At Birth:
President Charles Logan From TV's
And...
President Richard Milhous Nixon
From The World Wide Glen
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If the two night, four hour season premiere of Fox TV's hit drama 24 is any indication, this year's weekly cliff hangers promise to be the best yet.
But it won't be just the non-stop twists and turns that face Keifer Sutherland's back from the dead counter terror agent Jack Bauer, that keep me on the edge of my seat this time around.
Nope.
The guy who I'll be keeping my eye on is the character of President Charles Logan. You see, I first noticed it when then Vice President Logan assumed the Presidency on the tightly wound drama last season.
The guy playing President Logan (actor Gregory Itzin for those keeping score) is a dead ringer for Nixon. Seriously, it's uncanny. Check out the two pics I posted above. He's got it all. The jowls. The beady, shifty eyes. The slicked back hair receding from each side of his face. The Drabby Suit...
I fully expect to see beads of sweat dripping from just above his upper lip on future 24 episodes, just as Nixon's so famously did like clockwork in his own televised speeches.
From the debates with JFK all the way to his famous denials of wrongdoing ("I Am Not A Crook"), as the Watergate scandal slowly closed in on his presidency.
Well it seems somebody on the writing staff of 24 has also noticed the resemblance.
Because on this season of 24, the writers have apparently decided to run the Nixon thing right up the ol' flagpole.
The first signs are subtle...things like the fact that the Logan character is keenly mindful of his legacy and his place in history.
He persues his own version of detente with a Russian counterpart (in the form of an anti-terrorist accord) as the ultimate photo-op...even as a former President has just been assassinated and terrorists are publicly executing civilians in an airport on national TV.
"I realize that I'm ambitious", Logan remarks matter of factly, "But I didn't think civilians would be killed." Which immediately brought back memories for me of the Nixon Watergate tapes:
"We could raise the money," Nixon said in one breath, referring to paying hush money to the Watergate burglars. And in the very next, always mindful of covering his steps, came the qualifying statement, "...But it would be wrong."
Speaking of tapes, 24's President Logan keeps not only tapes of all recorded White House conversations, but transcripts as well. Which brings us to the ultimate Nixon tribute (at least so far) the writers of 24 have resurrected from the historical grave of the Nixon/Watergate era.
Thats right, it gets even better.
They've actually decided to resurrect Martha Mitchell herself as a character on 24 this season.
For those either too young, or perhaps even too old to remember, Martha Mitchell was the wife of Nixon's Attorney General John Mitchell, and a perennial thorn in the side of that administration.
Painted by Nixon's goons as delusional and paranoid, Martha Mitchell went to the press (and anyone else who would listen) often and loudly, with stories of government shenanigans branded as "conspiracy theories" at the time.
She was eventually silenced through medication (and worse some have suggested). But perennial "kook" Martha Mitchell was eventually vindicated when the Watergate scandal verified at least some of her louder, wilder claims.
24's First Lady Martha Logan, herself a medicated conspiracy theorist prone to emotional outbursts and wild mood swings is portrayed by actress Jean Smart.
My friends, to quote one of the man himself's most famous campaign slogans, Now More Than Ever.
Richard Nixon is alive and well.
Don't be surprised to see 24's President Logan hitting the bottle and having long, late night conversations with the other Presidents hanging on pictures in the halls of the White House before this season of 24 is over.
Remember, you read it here first.