07.03 | '24' season five finishes in the UK
Sky finally caught up and broadcast the season five finale last night:
By the third ad-break, Jack has defused the missiles. This left the final episode set up to be an hour of Jack Bauer torturing the shifty, Nixon-alike President of the United States of America. My God, that’s a plot to conjure with — Bauer slowly clipping body-parts off the most powerful man in the world, while hissing huskily at him. It would be like the video to Rock DJ crossed with All the President’s Men.Pity the poor Australians, who are only a few episodes in and have weeks left to go.Of course, in the end, Jack did not torture the President, because he is a patriot, and believes in his country. Instead, there was a thing with a bugged fountain pen and the President’s mad wife, and Jack got his confession, making America safe once again. Jack had just enough time to kiss his girlfriend — who inexplicably didn’t just lie down in the dirt and beg to be impregnated — before he was kidnapped by the Chinese.
Now he’s in the hold of a boat, heading to Shanghai, and Season 6. It’s amazing that James Bond films still get made, really, when '24' does it all so much better, and faster, and hotter. And 24 times a year.
Meanwhile, Kiefer Sutherland has been interviewed by the Observer newspaper in the UK and has also won best male drama actor at the Monte Carlo TV Awards.
