My assessment of the series up to now is that acting is superb by the different characters of this thriller. Nevertheless storytelling goes overboard in many scenes or chapters making the series to my perception lack that important part of reality. I mean terrorists r always accurate & on the ball to what they r doing. The CTU unit should be an almost flawless anti-terrorism agency for the US government & they r portrayed as an agency below standards of the professional terrorists.Always making stupid mistakes, many traitors in the agency something that scares me for their lack of accuracy. Also everyone is plotted as evil even the President of the US & the "good guys" r portrayed as too innocent to believe. Nevertheless all said above I like the series and give a rating of 8 due to the factors above.