24: Season 2

Another day is done. This time, the threat was nuclear. 

24 cranked out another great season. Jack picks up the pieces of his fractured life following the tragic events of the first season and returns to help save the day. Now some terrorists are once again holding the country hostage as they attempt detonate a nuclear bomb in Los Angeles, with the possibility of hiding larger, more devious plans for America. Jack is on the ground floor butting heads with CTU as they try and figure out who's on first, Kim is running away from a psychopathic, murdering father who she works for as a nanny, and President Palmer is doing his best to prevent the country from entering into another World War. Just another day...

The show is still gripping with big cliffhangers at the end of every story arc. It's easy to binge on. Though, I'm beginning to think that we're missing another story here. The story of how Jack Bauer's great, great grandfather accidentally ran over a gypsy with his horse back in old country, who later inflicted a curse upon the whole Bauer family. A curse that states once a year for 24-hours, everything is just going to go horribly wrong. It's kind of ridiculous how crazy everyone's stories can get. Kim is by far the most confusing. While trying to escape a murderer, she gets stuck in a snare trap, is taken in by some forest recluse who tries to capture her, escapes, makes her way to a local convenience store to phone for help (already thinking her father is dead), then some lunatic holds-up to the store... I mean, it just doesn't end. 

Ultimately, the show is good. Still good. Hopefully will continue to be good. However, it's a little crazy how bad things go for everyone on a constant basis. It's even crazier how Jack Bauer isn't dead yet. The guy jumps out of a plane right before the nuke it's carrying detonates and survives. Gets tortures --- literally -- to death, but comes back to life and survives. It's bonkers. For that, I get pulled out of the show a bit just because it's absolutely so damn over-the-top. The show is like Jack, though. Despite how crazy and bizarre it seems, it yields results. Good results.