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#28
#28
Originally posted by milohimself@Apr 25, 2005 10:38 PM
Never seen an episode in my life.
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I have seen a half of one :rolleyes: A show ya'll would like is Nip/Tuck!!!
 
#29
#29
I can't stand all of that cutting and pulling on skin. :ph34r:
 
#30
#30
Originally posted by Orangewhiteblood@Apr 25, 2005 10:51 PM
I can't stand all of that cutting and pulling on skin. :ph34r:
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::Cough:: ::Cough:: weak ::Cough:: :lol:
 
#31
#31
The only shows I have ever watched with regularity in recent history are Band Of Brothers and The Sopranos.
 
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#33
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The whole series is better than Saving Private Ryan, IMO
 
#34
#34
Originally posted by milohimself@Apr 25, 2005 11:00 PM
The only shows I have ever watched with regularity in recent history are Band Of Brothers and The Sopranos.
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24 is good enough to be on pay cable tv. Thank God it's not.

Easily the best show on network tv, bar none, and has been for 4 years now. It's literally like a 24 episode miniseries except there are no boring parts because anytime there's not action going on they're laying the story down for what's about to jump out around the next corner. And it's fast paced. Even the "set up" dialogue scenes are pretty intense.

Review of the Season One DVD set on Amazon:

Such a simple idea--yet so fiendishly complex in the execution. 24, as surely everyone knows by now, is a thriller that takes places over 24 hours, midnight to midnight, in 24 one-hour episodes (well, 45-minute episodes if you subtract the commercials). Everything takes place in real time, which means no flashbacks, no flash-forwards, no handy time-dissolves. Every strand of the plot has to be dovetailed and interlocked so things happen just when they should, in the right amount of time. Not that easy.
Creator Robert Cochran and his team of writers and directors have done an impressive job of putting the jigsaw together and keeping the tension ratcheted up high, as federal agent Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) runs around L.A. trying to stall an assassination attempt on an African American presidential candidate and rescue his wife and daughter from the clutches of the Balkan baddies. Twists, turns, revelations, and cliffhangers are tossed at us with satisfying regularity. It's not perfect: we get some hokey plot devices (instant amnesia, anybody?); the final twist makes no sense whatsoever; there are altogether too many huggy family moments; and as for Dennis Hopper's "Serbian" accent....

Even so, this is undeniably mold-breaking TV. Sutherland, rescuing his career from the doldrums in one heroic leap, fully deserves his Golden Globe. Sets and locations are artfully deployed, and Sean Callery's score is a powerful, brooding presence. Like Murder One and The Sopranos, 24 is one of those series that future TV thrillers will be measured against. --Philip Kemp

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Only House comes close, but it's more like a cross between ER and CSI. Not much action, nothing like 24.
 
#35
#35
24's the best. I won't see Monday's episode until Thursday though when I see the tape.
 
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