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TV Review: 24: Live Another Day “1:00 PM to 2:00 PM” By: Brandon Wolfe “ 1:00 PM to 2:00 PM ” (perhaps confusingly, a title eight other ‘24’ episodes bear) starts out reminding us what ‘24’ does so well before going on to remind us of the things ‘24’ frequently did to hurt us, or at least make us very sleepy. The show, even at its worst, was always masterful at building tension, even if the things happening onscreen weren’t technically of grave consequence to us, and the entire first act involves Jack’s breathless pursuit of comely, improbably named terrorist Simone Al-Harazi from a subway to a train station. Only the most attentive viewers probably even remember from last week the reasons why Jack is pursuing Al-Harazi, but when ‘24’ starts using its split-screens and Jack is sprinting and scowling his head off, you often find yourself gripping your armrest in spite of yourself. The entire sequence lasts almost 15 minutes, before Jack loses Al-Harazi because Chloe was asleep at the

TV Review: 24: Live Another Day – “11:00 AM-12:00 PM”/“12:00 PM-1:00 PM” By: Brandon Wolfe It has been four years since the clock finally ran out on Jack Bauer, and at the time it felt like not a moment too soon. Actually, it felt like a moment arriving years too late. ‘24’ was one of the defining shows of the ‘00s, it rewrote many of the rules of television and it had stretches where it occasionally brushed up against something like brilliance, but it ran out of gas long before it left our screens. Collapsing into a slog of poor writing, repetitive use of the same handful of tropes, frequent deployment of troubling politics and just an overall sense that its premise could not withstand being trotted out over myriad seasons, the latter years of ‘24’ became something of a chore to get through. Add to this mix rapidly diminishing ratings and it’s hard to argue that ‘24’s’ demise wasn’t the right call. But all that being said, it’s nice having ol’ Jack Bauer around. The charact

A brand-new trailer and poster for Fox's 12-episode revival 24: Live Another Day hit the web Tuesday and Jack Bauer ( Kiefer Sutherland ) is on the run. In the fast-moving 60-second promo, it's established that Jack has been off the grid for the past four years. "He didn't do that by being careless," CIA agent Kate Morgan ( Yvonne Strahovski ) says. (The trailer also offers a glimpse at Benjamin Bratt's Steve Navarro, head of CIA operations in London.) He's more unpredictable than ever, meaning he's far more dangerous than before. When President Heller's chief of staff Mark Boudreau ( Tate Donovan ) catches wind that Jack is back on the grid, he's more than unhappy: "After all these years, he surfaces in London? We have to consider that he's here to do the president harm." But Jack, reunited with a punked-out Chloe ( Mary Lynn Rajskub ), has other plans, warning that an assassination attempt on the president on foreign soi