I have known about this TV series for a long time yet I never considered it seriously… I was thinking, “how could a series where each episode constitutes an hour in a person’s life be interesting?” Boy, was I wrong.

This series stars Keifer Sutherland, and as I mentioned, the series is a day in the life of an agent of CTU (Counter Terrorist Unit). The whole series revolves around a 24-hour period, meaning 24 episodes. My misgivings about what they could concoct in order to make one hour in a man’s life interesting enough to watch and follow every week were dispelled after two episodes into it… I rented the series from Netflix.Com because I was curious as to why people liked it a lot, and I was glad I did.

The first season revolved around the day of the presidential primary, where Senator David Palmer, set to become the first black president of the United States, has an assasination plot against him, and Keifer Sutherland is tapped to prevent it in the next 24 hours, amid his own domestic problems and the hidden agendas behind the attempt at the senator’s life.

The thing I liked most about the first season was that it didn’t have a happy or uplifting ending – a ballsy move by the writers for a television series, and one that is rarely attempted in such a popular series.

I am now midway into the second season, where the conflict revolves around a terrorist attack on the United States – in the form of a nuclear bomb set to detonate in Los Angeles within 24 hours. And Keifer Sutherland is again thrown into another of his long days.

So far, the second season is more riveting because of the magnitude of the threat, as well as the turns and twists in the plot… I can’t wait to finish it next week … hopefully I can do a review on the DVDs afterwards.

If you haven’t tried watching this series yet, I suggest you do now. It’s action television at its best…

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