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Eighteen
months after the assassination attempt on his life, senator
Palmer has been elected to the White House. The LA Counter
Terrorist Unit (CTU) are informed of a threat to national
security and Jack
Bauer is pulled out of retirement to help prevent a nuclear
bomb being detonated by terrorists in Los Angeles...
The
second season of 24 improves greatly on the first season
in a number of ways, but there are many aspects that don't
quite work, To start with the real-time device doesn't really
stand up to close scrutiny this time around. It is just not
feasible that all the events that unravel could have occurred
in 24 hours. Okay, this was a problem with the first season
but this time around there is way more going on.
Kim
Bauer's inclusion seems a little pointless and the things
that happen to her (when you consider these are the events
of one day) are ridiculous. She is on the run for murder,
involved in a car crash, caught in a hunter's trap, almost
attacked by a wild cat, trapped in a house with a weirdo and
abducted by aliens... Okay, the last one I made up, but the
way her luck was running it might as well have been included.
Not only that, but there seemed to be too many shots of her
running towards the camera with her breasts bouncing all over
the place - not a complaint, just an observation.
Before
you think I hated this season, let me just say that I didn't.
I loved it. There's some fantastic acting - especially on
the part of Dennis Haysbert, Xander Berkeley and Penny Johnson
Jerald - and, ignoring Kim's scenes, loads of dramatic tension.
The
last four episodes really need to be viewed together - you're
really not going to want to take a break between them.
There
are some great extras on the DVD including 45
deleted scenes that can be viewed independently (on the final
disc they include optional commentaries) or viewed throughout
the episode or separately for each episode.
There are two not to be missed deleted scenes include one
that (and this won't spoil anything) ties Nina Myers into
everything and a very funny alternate ending - which the commentary
explains was done to stop the ending being leaked on the Internet.
There
is also a two part documentary: 24 Exposed which takes
a behind the scenes look at the filming of the series; a Featurette
that looks at the preparation that went into blowing up the
CTU building: On the Button - The Destruction of CTU;
and episode commentaries from cast and crew.
Oh,
and see if you can spot the ex-Neighbour's actor in
Palmer's cabinet and Rosanne's daughter in CTU.
A
fantastic collection that improves dramatically on the first
season release.
Darren
Rea
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