"24" season 1 (Fox): The degree of difficulty seemed impossibly high: not only a single plot told over an entire season (which had been tried, to very limited success, with ABC's "Murder One"), but one told in real time, and an action series (in a medium where action is tough to do well on a regular basis), to boot? Yet the first season of "24" mostly pulled it all off (give or take Teri's amnesia and Kim's second kidnapping), thanks to Kiefer Sutherland's almost feral performance as Jack Bauer and a production team that knew exactly how to tell their story, even if they didn't always know what that story would be (again, see Teri's amnesia). They've repeated that formula, with diminishing returns, for six additional seasons and a lackluster TV-movie, but the self-parody the show has become can't take away from how thrilling and bravura Jack's first busy day was.
Source: NJ.com
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