03.16 | Episode five, 12PM - 1PM
First things first, I don't trust the old Granddad bloke. Roger, Palmer's new right-hand evil baddie. But he's called Roger, which leaves plenty out of room for comedy 'Roger, over and out' walkie-talkie jokes later in the series.
George and Jack argue a plenty, which is great when you know that they're both going to be working together like best buddies for the rest of the series.
Daddy Bob Warner continues his descent into baddieness by admitting that he knew Reza was only going to show Kate to the new house, and that he also knew Reza wasn't going to murder her and bury her body in the basement. What an ass. There's too many blondes in this show, and one of them needs to go soon. I vote Kate off, Weakest Link style, to be the first to go. She's rubbed too many people up the wrong way already.
Dumb moment of the show? Trained covert operative Jack Bauer telling his blabber mouth daughter THAT THERE’S A NUCLEAR BOMB! ABOUT TO GO OFF! IN LOS ANGELES! Over the entirely insecure mobile phone network, too. In front of his work colleagues, as well.
So what does Kim do? Kim introduces her 'friend' Miguel, and promptly tells him THAT THERE'S A NUCLEAR BOMB! ABOUT TO GO OFF! IN LOS ANGELES! A pity that he's also too thick to take all this information in, though. Miguel would be a prime suspect for being linked to the terrorist group, if only he wasn't already a prime suspect for 'Idiot of the series', by sole virtue of being Kim's 'friend'. It's like this – if you look like trouble (ie Miguel or Reza) and you're shacked up with a dumb blonde (ie Kim or Marie) who hasn't realised that you could be dodgy, then you're probably not.
What does this tell us about real life? Dumb blondes are always right, and they always date arseholes who aren't as much trouble as they seem. OK, like, whatever.
Shock of the week for me must have been the Ambassador's helicopter crash at the end. I never would have guessed that he'd never get back to Iraq the 'middle eastern country'. Maybe this'll have greater implications for the President, like someone aiming nuclear missiles at LA as well...
As for Jack and Nina, think of it like a Chachie and Joanie for the 21st century. I'm just waiting for the rule-breaking former agent and the other disgraced former agent to get down and dirty, and start their little love affair all over again. A struggle of love and hate, of biblical proportions, but on American telly.
It's a comedy goldmine out there, I swear.
