• Network: FOX
  • Series Premiere Date: Nov 6, 2001
  • Season #: 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 , 6 , 7 , 8
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Generally favorable reviews - based on 19 Critics What's this?

User Score

Generally favorable reviews- based on 71 Ratings

  • Summary: Jack is enjoying retirement and life with his family when an assassination plot draws him back to CTU (in New York City).
  • Genre(s): Drama, Action & Adventure
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 19
  2. Negative: 3 out of 19
  1. Reviewed by: Verne Gay
    100
    Four immensely enjoyable hours. Alas, I can't speak to what happens during the remaining 20.
  2. 80
    The first four hours are good. Very good. Certainly, 24 fans will enjoy them.
  3. Reviewed by: Hank Stuever
    60
    Well, here's "24" again, with a renewed sense of dot-connecting purpose (fictional, yet symbolic) and a two-night premiere, Sunday and Monday -- a rollicking four-hour chunk in which the series seems on track to rediscover some of its original verve.
  4. 37
    The show's few interesting actors get little to do and the new characters aren't that compelling. Pass.

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Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 19
  2. Negative: 1 out of 19
  1. 10
    Though I was glad to see Chloe and Renee back, I have to admit - the rest of the cast did little to entertain me. I feel like 24 season eight must have had new writers. The final season paled in comparison to the previous 7. Maybe it was time to call it finished. Expand
  2. After watching every episode of every season, the 8th and final season of 24 follows a similar path of previous seasons. Something terrible is about to happen or has already happened, and the president of the US calls on Jack Bauer to be a part of the solution. While the backdrop feels a little more cookie-cutter this time around and maybe a few episdes in the middle seem to take the eye off the ball, it's the conviction in which the actors portray their characters and the less gimmicky feel of the plot over the 24 episodes that makes this swan song feel good once it finally closes. It won't be the best season of 24 for most fans, but it certainly ends up being worth the time when the final timer counts us out. There aren't many shows out there getting it done as well or as consistent as 24 does. For that, it was certainly a pleasure to ride along all this time. Expand
  3. Not the best season, but defiantly worth watching if you're a 24 fan like me.
    I'd say this season is average with most of it's previous season
    s, but falls short of being really good, great or amazing. Expand
  4. ChrisC
    2
    24 has apparently fired the last of it's good writers and hired nothing but cheap hacks. It's also shed the last of it's believability and completely lost it's unpredictability. Collapse

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