The following takes place between 7:03 AM and 7:10 AM

If you've ever followed Jack Bauer, the ex-Marine Black ops agent, and 'allowed yourself' to be absorbed into his world, you'll know that this is one of the best scripted TV Series around. Agent Bauer almost always uses the element of surprise against the enemies of the United States, which means that most of the time he is unarmored, carries only a sidearm and very rarely has other agents as backup - on the rare occasion that Bauer does have backup, you can most certainly say "KIA" before the hour is up.

So what makes this show so interesting? Well, the above is a precis based on 5 years of 24 broadcasting. If you're not addicted yet, and want a chill-out 'thing-to-do' after a hard day's (week's) work, 24 is right up your alley. I haven't given anything away so if you're blessed enough to have friends whom own the DVD (or if you are going to collect them yourself), then that is the way to watch this series, on DVD, with episodes back to back.

Anything can and will happen - the writers of 24 have proven this - which I suppose in a sense reflects what is in the 'real-world' that we see and live in everyday. Without trying to "justify" a TV show to say that it is humanity personified - Jack Bauer in 24 gives us a glimpse into the world that most of us do not (will not) see; our world that is not perfect; our world that has enemies; our world of freedom in that which we live has a blood-stained-history, which continues to be stained by blood, because as long as humanity has differing agendas, the world will be at war, if not at a global level, then at a local level.

AND it takes people within their certain "day jobs" and their daily sacrifice to keep the rest of us safe; protecting the interests of our freedom. And we are indeed a blessed generation, a generation of westerners who can do almost whatever-they-want, so freely and unrestricted; dare I say most of us will probably never see anything close to what our grandparents or great grandparents witnessed, the World Wars of I & II... hard to imagine those wars were only less than one hundred years ago.

...that was probably a little bit too heavy for a one-hundred-word review of 24.