The TV action serial 24 has been revived. You remember that show, right? Jack Bauer running around shouting “We’re running out of time” into his cell phone while harried computer experts in a dimly lit room squinted at floor plans on a monitor. Every segment ended with the sound of an enormous alarm clock being crushed repeatedly: Changchank. Changchank. Changchank.
The first show premiered two months after 9/11 and was an odd form of comfort food for a nervous, unsettled audience. Its hero was patriotic, clear-eyed, and capable of, shall we say, improvisational persuasion when it came to national security. Sample:
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