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  • Analyze Retentive: Amazon’s ‘Jack Ryan’ fun but familiar…

    Jack Ryan (John Krasinski) once served on the frontline of the war on terror but the soldier-turned-CIA analyst knows that there’s as much value in tracing money transactions as there is in sending drones into combat – and he’s sure that the financial trail he’s been following indicates not...
  • Jack Bauer returns as… the 24 Prequelizer?

    24 was a flagship show for FOX for nearly a decade. It featured the central character of Jack Bauer, an anti-terrorism task-force leader who found himself plunged into a terrorist conspiracy and for which he only had the titular amount of hours to unravel the plot. Each of the...
  • 24-Legacy

    Straight Outta Time : ’24’ clocks in for another tour of duty…

    Before a second of its first episode had been broadcast, 24 arrived on television schedules in the Fall of 2001 with the kind of zeitgiest-grabbing topicality that can’t be programmed, engineered or bought. Mere weeks earlier viewers had watched helplessly as the all-too-real world came powering through their television screens...
  • Designated Survivor

    Hail to the Chief: Sutherland is back to save America (and primetime)…

    “One helluva day…”  muses Natascha McElhlone’s new first lady Alex Kirkman as she gets ready to accompany her husband Tom and survey the damage to Washington DC in the second episode of  new drama Designated Survivor (broadcast by ABC in the US and available on Netflix in other territories) As Jack...
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