24 - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)

...** The Basics ** 24 is drama series that is set during a single day. The series is 24 episodes long and (you guessed it) each episode is 1 hour long, give or take advert breaks. The drama is designed and written to be in real time. The actual episode length is around 40-45 minutes with strategically placed lapses for adverts when the series is being shown on TV. ** The History ** * WARNING: I don’t like to include spoilers in my reviews but if ...
...and Past Releases ** 24 Series One and Three are also currently available on DVD box set. 24 Series Four is currently being shown on Sky and will be released on DVD shortly afterwards. I have already reviewed the first season and intend to start watching the third season soon. I’m sure another review will follow. ** Availability ** Currently the first three seasons can be bought from Play.com for £18 each. This is by far the cheapest I have seen ...

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...Without a doubt, I’d say 24. With intricate plotlines and enough dramatic tension to burst a blood vessel, 24 is must-see TV. But it is also highly complex and if you miss one episode, you’re pretty much screwed for the rest of the series. So, what to do if you’ve missed some or all of Series 2 of 24? Buy the box set on DVD of course! >> SYNOPSIS << Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) is a former federal agent, who used to head up the Counter Terrorist ...
...Los Angeles within the next 24 hours. The only person who the President trusts to save LA is of course Jack Bauer, who is enticed back from retirement to help save the day! >> 24: A FRESH IDEA IN TELEVISION << 24 takes place over 24 hours, from 8am through to 8am the next day. Each episode is one hour long (or it should be an hour, but the ad breaks mean that if you watch it non-stop, it is only 45 minutes). There are three key narratives (Jack ...

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...on the first season of 24 then you will fully understand the love i have for this show and its characters. Love is a strong word but i'll use it anyway! Another £50 given over to the nice people at HMV and season 2 was purchased. After the experience i had with season 1, i thought it best to try and miss the episodes on TV and wait for the dvd to come out so i could watch 4/5 episodes in a row if i wanted to. It was hard work as my buddies were watching ...
...managed to stay clear of 24 chats! This season in my opinion was better than the first which was hard to do but the writers, cast and directors did an amazing job in keeping people on the edge of their seat. PLOT - As mentioned in my season 1 review, its quite tricky to give you a definitive plot for the whole days events due to the multiple subplots and continued progression of the stories throughout the day, however i will give you a run down ...

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Review of 24 - Series 2 - Complete (DVD)

...turns that are what make 24 so special, the story goes a little something like this: Jack Bauer and his daughter Kim are struggling to come to terms with the tragic loss of Jack’s wife Kim, who was tragically killed at the end of season one. Meanwhile newly elected President David Palmer is informed of a threat to National Security. There is a nuclear device under terrorist control in the city of Los Angeles and it is going to go off sometime in ...
...directors and the actors that 24 comes to life, and come to life it does. The highlights are Kiefer Sutherland’s performance as a grief and guilt ridden Jack Bauer forced to push his pain to one side so that he can do his job. Sarah Wynter shines as Kate Warner, a woman who just wants to do the right thing. Xander Berkley’s portrayal of a man struggling with the effects of radiation poisoning is touching while it is business as usual for Dennis Haysbert ...

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...action and suspense packed drama 24. Last time we left him, the longest day of his life was just ending. He had just found his wife dead, his daughter probably scarred for life after being kidnapped and CTU finally catching the traitor Nina Myers. The threat on presidential candidate Senator David Palmer's life eliminated. It's 1 year later. Jack has been estranged from his daughter Kim, who blames him for her mothers death. He is no longer working ...
...know we've got another thrilling 24 hours ahead of us. Time is running out. ------------------------- Characters ------------------------- The main cast returns for this series, including some unexpected appearances: Keither Sutherland - Jack Bauer, the main guy, he seems to know everything and be able to do everything. All round hero Elisha Cuthburt - Kim Bauer, tough girl. In series one she was very delicate, but now she's tougher and more ...

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...in LA in the next 24 hours. It’s up to CTU to stop it from happening. This one starts at 8am. It’s a year after the first ‘24’ and Jack has left CTU and let himself go a bit as both he and his daughter are having trouble dealing with his wife’s death. Okay, he’s grown a beard. It’s not exactly skid row is it? But, I digress…… George Mason, who Jack doesn’t trust, with good reason, is running CTU. There are a few new faces at CTU including Roseanne’s ...
...he? The real mystery of 24 is this…..WHO IS AUNT CAROL? If you’ve seen the 1st season you know the style of things to come, but you will be shocked and surprised by some of the twists and turns that the story takes. The return of some faces from season 1 may surprise you, but they were so good in season 1 that it would have been a crime to exclude them this time around. Once again there’s no swearing and none of the main characters ever seem to ...

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24 is a ground breaking American show based around the Counter Terrorist Unit (CTU) in LA. This review is of the DVD box set of Season 2. The show is unusual because it centres on a 24 hour period and is made up of 24 episodes, each covering 1 hour. This real time format can take some getting used to but since Season 1 they have improved it slightly so that the story flows more. Background It is now 18 month since the attempt on Senator Palmer’s ...
...in LA within the next 24 hours. George Mason calls on a reluctant Jack Bauer to help them stop the bomb. So is it any good? Of course it is, it’s 24! This season is punctuated by twists and turns that I defy you to predict. As ever there is no way of knowing who is good or bad, who will live and who will die. That is all part of the fun! Each episode races away and you would not believe how much can happen in a single hour. However the episodes ...

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...you know that the original 24 was only meant to be 12 episodes but after huge viewin figures early on they commisioned another 12 episodes!that is why in the original story line of season one it takes a huge deviation and twist around there to continue the story! but this one was written with the fact that there was gonna be 24 full episodes and god what a story line!!all the team return even ninas who is great as jacks nemesis! keifer is brilliant ...
...for the over 60!! 24 episodes with the same intense and addictive viewing as season one but with a better budget and effects! the extra features are a huge improvement aswell.. two hour long docomentarys, behind the scenes featerette on bombing at CTU. episode commenteries from stars and directors alike and also 25 deleted scenes with commenteries aswell!wow massive improvement on the slop yoyu were given as extras in season 1.! retail price is ...

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24 is an action/thriller television series with the theme being on counter terrorism. At the beginning of series 2 a terrorist threat to detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles is discovered. President Palmer (Dennis Haysbert) then calls on the main character Jack Bauer (Keifer Sutherland), former CTU (counter terrorist unit) agent and the man who saved palmer's life in the first series. When we see Bauer again, he is clearly a broken man, still ...
...of a larger plan... 24 is very fast paced, action packed and at times you can feel the tension and the urgency in the air. I was instantly hooked, with a gripping plot with seemed to twist endlessly and strong performances from the entire cast of characters, I had to watch "just one more episode"! even the last few seconds of the series left me eagerly awaiting series 3. Also 24 is unique in the way it is filmed in the sense that a season consists ...

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...daughter. Kimberly goes through another 24 hours of hell, (I wouldn't want her life for anything)! She is acused of kidnapping and murder and steeling a car. She escapes from custody only to injure the cop and her boyfriend in the process, she ends up in a nuclear fall out shelter with another nutter who she escapes from, only to be told by Jack that he is about to comit suicide by being the one to get the bomb out of L.A and detonate it with him ...
...Jack finds out that his old friend Nina Myers (Sarah Clarke) is behind the bomb, and has to interrogate her, he loves this job as he would like to kill her after she killed his wife in season 1. Needless to say he didn't die in the plane as George Mason had hidden himself in the plane in order to be the one to go down with the plane (he was going to die in a few hours anyway as he had been in contact with plutonium earlier that day). Kimberly so ...

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I started to watch 24 Season 2 when it came onto BBC 2 a year or two ago and I was hooked, every Sunday night I would cancel nights out to stay in and watch it. Then I missed an episode because I was away and my housemate forgot to record it. Absolute nightmare, I had missed 18:oo a vital hour. So i had to wait till it came out on DVD to see what happened. The DVD collection is really good. You can skip easiely to any episode that you want to see, ...
...8hours hooked on it. If you loved the excitement adn adventure on teh TV wait till you get teh sound effects pumping through your home cinema system, it made me weak wat teh knees. This DVD is a must for christmas to anyone who likes this series. Forget teh money, it is a truely great investment. ...

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...apologies, I just think that 24 is really at its best when you don't know what is going to happen next! It is quite hard to get across the intensity and brilliance that is 24 without spoiling all of the twists and turns in the plot. This is an excellent season, although Kim Bauer does become a little annoying, even more so in later seasons the others are fantastic. The twists and turns are just as thrilling as the first. The growing relationship ...
...Who can he trust?! 24 really is a must see! I would recommend getting the box set and setting aside at least a couple of hours each time your sit to watch it. Each episode ends with a twist and the temptation to just watch the next hour often wins when I am watching. In short, 24 Season 2 is MUST SEE TV. ...

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