Keifer Sutherland is great in his role of Jack Bauer an agent for C.T.U. (counter terrorism Unit) in this action packed show where a day seems to take forever (well at least a season). The first season was simply amazing with the freshness of the idea for the show, the surprises, great acting, a dimwit but uber-hot daughter, and one of the best ending scenes for a TV show of all time. All the subsequent seasons couldn't help but pale in comparison. Season 2 was still very thrilling and highly watchable. Something happened in the third season that made me like the show a tad less. That was the addition of Mary Lynn Rajskub as Chloe. Every time she said or did anything severely dumb (which have been too numerous to count) I found myself wincing. Sure Jack's daughter seemed to be a little on the flaky side, but Chloe was borderline mental and why ANY important government agency that's worth anything would ever hire someone so insanely deficient of any semblance to mental capacity is something I can't fathom. I could suspend disbelief for a lot of what happened in 24 (it can get a tad outlandish sometimes), but NOT Chloe.

Pre-Chloe grade: A Post-Chloe: B-