This season finale had a lot to live up to with all that's happened thus far, and as for how ell it delivers . . . with nothing short of flying colors. Between the domestic lives of the Palmers and the Bauers, plus a mole in CTU, it's just one bombshell after another. By now, Jack's credentials as a badass are well in order, what with his two-gun assault on the Drazen hideout. And Kiefer Sutherland's tasked with three different scenes of emotional intensity, nailing every one of them. The stakes were already high when the episode opened - and they stayed right up there until the bitter end.
Which brings me to the real shocker and how I think this show found its nerve and really caught fire on TV: that fade to black on the gutsiest ending there can be. There were enough major players to kill off here that I can safely say someone dies without spoiling it. But it's the person they chose that's the real punch to the solar plexus and served to define Jack Bauer from here on out.
Those aren't cojones, those are grapefruits.
10/10
Which brings me to the real shocker and how I think this show found its nerve and really caught fire on TV: that fade to black on the gutsiest ending there can be. There were enough major players to kill off here that I can safely say someone dies without spoiling it. But it's the person they chose that's the real punch to the solar plexus and served to define Jack Bauer from here on out.
Those aren't cojones, those are grapefruits.
10/10