24:Season 7, Episode 19: "2:00am-3:00am"
Grade: 7.8
The episode after Tony reveals that he is in fact still bad is a solid one which is more than I can say for the two episodes following this one. Something that I admire about this season is how fast everything has moved. Things that would take 5 hours in another season of the show take 1 or 2 episodes at the most. So I was afraid that Tony would have to play it cool under Jack’s nose for multiple episodes which was something that I was dreading. Luckily this was all solved at the end of the episode when Jack figured out that Tony was bad. Wow Tony has really turned into quite the douche. I really just do not care much about him anymore. I’m still attached to the character only in that I’ve known him for so long but I really just do not care about him anymore. It’s what he does to Jack that I really care about. So it was pretty difficult to watch where Jack and Tony’s friendship has gone when Tony refused to give Jack his medication during his seizure. I wonder what others think about the question if Tony is willing to kill Jack if it came down to it. I think he actually would be able to do it. I hate to admit it but I think he would be able to. It was a very exciting episode during the parts with Jack and Tony because Tony was just trying to get Jack to leave because of his condition while Jack knew something was up and could not quite figure it out for a little while. However by the end of the episode he realized that he had mistrusted Tony all along. Jack was about to shoot Tony because he had said that if he found out that Tony was fucking with him, he was going to kill him on the spot. His seizure prevented him from doing that. I think Jack is extremely willing and ready to do whatever it takes to make sure that Tony stays dead this time around as much as it pains him to.
Renee learned about Moss’ death : ( and we see that Renee deals with death by bottling up her emotions (seriously, Jill Bauer coming through). I felt really bad for Renee because she cared for Moss so much and they really had their relationship put through the ringer during the season. Crazy stuff happens with a blonde woman who shows up as Hodges look alike lawyer who she killed and presents him with a suicide pill because his death will save his family. I do not get how any of this connects because I’ve just lost track of things. Hodges swallows the pill but he survives. So much for the “suicide pill”. Kim leaves and we find out that Jack is now Grandpa Jack because Kim herself has a daughter name Teri. Oh my god how depressing is that? Overall it does keep the momentum of the last episode and is good but the next two episodes just kind of meander a bit for me.
Season 7, Episode 20: "2:00-3:00am"
Grade: 6.3
Here is where we start our two episode slump. Its not an actively bad episode and I understand that set up needs to be provided on this show but honestly it just felt like we were dragging ass here. There was no urgency to anything and there should be urgency at this point in the season since there has been for the rest of the season. Tony kills the guy with the canister because he wants to double cross Tony which was a stupid thing to do. Jack questions Hodges but gets nothing because Hodges truly knows nothing about the people he was working for. This was probably the best scene of the episode as Hodges tried to compare himself to Jack. We finally see Chloe again who hugs Jack which is adorable because they are BFF’s at this point even though being friends with Jack is not what its like being friends with other people. The CTU servers are put back online which is awesome because its just like old times. Then we are introduced to the illegal Muslim that is going to be framed for the attacks that Tony and his group are going to be doing on the country. I know his role is just another one of those “how are we supposed to give a crap about you when we will only see you for a few episodes kind of person” but honestly I feel for this guy and his brother. What a sucky deal. Olivia has no capability of being mature and understanding her mother’s decision to give Hodges a Witness Protection Program deal even though he was responsible for the death of their brother/son. So she calls someone to help her take care of Hodges even though she made it pretty clear to Aaron moments earlier that this was something she wanted so it won’t look good if he turns up dead an hour later but apparently she does not care. Olivia can be a moron sometimes. Oh and Jack flipped out on Janice because she was being annoying and because of the mood changes that the virus has inflicted upon Jack. It was awesome. The throwback to Palmer’s name was enough to almost make me cry. Again, the episode was not bad but parts of it seriously dragged and that is the last thing you want to happen on an episode of 24.
Season 7, Episode 21: "4:00-5:00am"
Grade: 5.9
And we enter the second hour in which we get…a lot of set up. The moment with Chloe and Jack when she figures out that something is wrong with him and finds out that he is dying was the best moment of the episode. It was weird how slow this episode was. Again with the no urgency. It did not even feel much like 24 to be honest. The parts that I liked were the fact that Olivia called off the assassination but a bit too late apparently or maybe not because we have no idea what happened as Jonas Hodges blew up. Thank God. Seriously, what a whiny annoying schmuck he was. After he was taken into custody he just became pathetic. I actually feel bad for Olivia. That’s right. Because no matter who killed him, she is totally taking the fall for it and that sucks for her but it’s what happens when you almost set up an assassination.
Tony and others are taking on the subway system. I still feel bad for Jabraan and his brother although it should hopefully be fairly obvious to the brother that Jabraan was forced to tell that lie. It’s a pretty shitty plan Tony I have to be honest with you.
Jack and Jabraan’s imam stuff was kind of annoying. First of all it pissed me off that way Jack handled the entire situation. He was a total asshole about the whole thing. Second of all brining him along makes no sense. It’s just so another person could point out how fucked up and lost and sad Jack Bauer is. Just one more person to pity him. We get it. It just felt forced to me.
Even though this episode was another one of mostly set up for these final hours, things pretty much look as if they are set in motion. They know Jabraan is being set up already and all of the final pieces are being set in motion. Next week looks like it is going to be very intense with lots of stuff happening. So let us hope that all of this set up was worth it as we head into the final 3 hours.
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