sentences:  "24" was featured on the cover of "TV Guide" as the "best new show of the season".The premiere episode was cited by "The New York Times" as a "Critic's Pick" by Caryn James, who noted that it was "a drama sleek, suspenseful and absorbing enough to overcome its blatant gimmick".She added that of the 2001 fall season's new government series that "24 is the most daring and promising" and that "Mr. Sutherland is an unexpectedly sympathetic hero".