For the past several weeks my boyfriend and I have been watching the first season of 24 - ROd has it on DVD. I think I might have watched one episode of it when it was originally on, but it just seemed like too much of a commitment to sign on for 24 episodes of television that you really had to watch every single week in order to follow. So I skipped it... and now I am finding out what I missed out on. This show is riveting. I guess the coolest thing about is the fact that because of the nature of the show and the storyline, they can just kill off pretty much anyone at any time. Oh sure, you know that Keifer isn't going to day - after all, then who would save the day? - but anyone else is up for grabs. And there are seemingly endless plot twists and sidelines and crazed insanity. Remember LA Law? Remember the shock of that lawyer falling down the elevator shaft? You have the potential for shocks like that in every episode of 24, and it's the coolest thing.
Right now, we are at 7:00 at night and apparently this episode has a cameo by Lou Diamond Phillips. It's like a flashback to Young Guns. What the hell happened to the 80s Brat Pack? Is it sorta bizarre that they're all on TV now? Charlie Sheen's got Spin City (wait, is that show still on? whatever...), Anthony Michael Hall has Dead Zone, Rob Lowe has West Wing (and hell, Christian Slater's on there now), Jami Gertz was on Ally Mcbeal - as was Robert Downey, Jr between prison stints, Judd Nelson had Suddenly Susan (okay, so that's probably not much to write home about, but you get my point). So to round it out, I think Ally Sheedy and Molly Ringwald should get a show together, where they play lesbian life partners with five kids and a cat. Andrew McCarthy and Emilio Estevez can be their gay friends who helped father the brood, and Jon Cryer can be the wacky neighbor.
Yeah, I'd watch that.
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