It was a pleasure to watch the first two episodes, which displayed all of the strengths and weaknesses of a series that usually starts well and stumbles later. Jack Bauer was yelling at a guy within a couple minutes of his first appearance. CTU continues to have worse internal security than my local DMV, plus funky orange walls at its new set. And the producers seem to think that peace in the Middle East requires simply a goodwilled ruler of an unnamed “Islamic Republic” and a handshake at the UN.