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24
Season 6
EMAILPRINTSERIES: Fox, Monday 9:00p (60 minutes)

Generally favorable reviews
Based on 23 critic reviews
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Based on 97 votes
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Show Info
Genre(s): Action / Adventure, Drama
Created By:
Joel Surnow
Robert Cochran
First Air Date: January 14, 2007
Summary
Starring Kiefer Sutherland, Mary Lynn Rajskub, D.B. Woodside, James Morrison, Peter MacNicol, Jayne Atkinson, Carlo Rota, and Eric Balfour
The sixth season of the Emmy-winnning series finds hero Jack Bauer in far worse shape than we left him last year, thanks to serving 20 months in a Chinese prison. Fortunately, a new terrorist threat arrives to distract him from his troubles. There's also a new President (D.B. Woodside's Wayne Palmer), but look for previous First Couple Gregory Itzin and Jean Smart to return mid-season.
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TV: 24 (Season 5)
Episode Guide & More Info: More about this show at TV.com
Also On The Web: Official Show Site Television Without Pity Recaps
What The Critics Said
All critic scores are converted to a 100-point scale. If a critic does not indicate a score, we assign a score based on the general impression given by the text of the review. Learn more...
New York Daily NewsDavid Hinckley
Unlike most serialized dramas of late... "24" continues to do everything right.
Read Full Review >New York PostAdam Buckman
OK - so plausibility is not this show's strong suit. It never has been. This show is about suspense, action and violence. And, as a look at the show's first four hours reveals, all three have been taken up several notches in the series' sixth season.
Read Full Review >USA TodayRobert Bianco
What's remarkable is that 24 still finds so many ways to surprise us, to take our knowledge of how things are done and turn it against us.
Read Full Review >Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
No, the thrill isn't gone. "24" remains a wild 'n' crazy roller-coaster ride.
Read Full Review >Wall Street JournalDorothy Rabinowitz
It's clear that all that has made "24" so huge and deserved a success is on display again in these first smashing episodes.
Read Full Review >Chicago TribuneMaureen Ryan
Far from taking anything away from the pulse-pounding show, thanks to Kiefer Sutherland’s magnetic performance, Bauer’s subtle psychological anguish may be the most interesting surprise of “24’s” new season.
Read Full Review >People WeeklyTom Gliatto
The series' sixth season begins with an intensely entertaining four-hour, two-night premiere. [15 Jan 2007, p.33]
San Jose Mercury NewsCharlie McCollum
This year, as in the past, there are all kinds of problems with "24" if you think too hard about what you're watching.
Read Full Review >The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Even in its sixth season, “24” remains remarkably compelling.
Read Full Review >TV GuideMatt Roush
24's first four hours, airing over two nights, aren't quite as electrifying as last season's opening act.... But none of these problems diminish the pulse-pounding pleasures of watching 24.
Read Full Review >LA WeeklyRobert Abele
Where does that leave Season 6, then, when the show has stemmed major disasters for five years running and its intensity level of choice is 11? As well-oiled as before, actually, and, judging from the four hours airing over Sunday and Monday, unafraid of edging its parallel-universe America ever closer toward a world war nightmare of mass hysteria.
Read Full Review >NewsdayVerne Gay
If all this sounds like "24" has been hijacked by public policy wonks or Shakespeare profs, don't worry. Your show very much remains your show.... It's just that your show got a little smarter.
Read Full Review >Hollywood ReporterBarry Garron
This remains a superb, positively riveting TV drama, however repetitive the themes and grandly implausible the scenarios.
Read Full Review >Baltimore SunDavid Zurawik
Once again, the producers and writers are creating a show that speaks to and reflects its era more succinctly and dramatically than any other network series.
Read Full Review >Arizona RepublicBill Goodykoontz
These episodes aren't as slam-bang great as last season's first four. But they are scarier, more personal, making it seem as if this time we have more to lose.
Read Full Review >Entertainment WeeklyGillian Flynn
24's best seasons have always hinged on a central, tantalizing character... This year could finally be Jack's turn to fascinate.... Otherwise, this round of mayhem has little to differentiate itself. [19 Jan 2007, p.67]
San Francisco ChronicleTim Goodman
Season 6 proves that the best part of "24" is its ability to make your pulse race as you sit slack jawed in front of the bastard machine mumbling, "They didn't just do that, did they?"
Read Full Review >Seattle Post-IntelligencerMelanie McFarland
So just put your intelligence on hold for an hour or four, and you'll be ecstatic at Day 6's beginning.
Read Full Review >VarietyBrian Lowry
The four episodes previewed are far from flawless, but even with their lapses and excesses, I can hardly wait for the next hour.
Read Full Review >Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Last year's body count also makes some of this year's deaths feel routine; I spent a good chunk of the early episodes figuring out which characters had lived just a little too long, if you know what I mean.
Read Full Review >Chicago Sun-TimesDoug Elfman
The problem with the beginning of "24" isn't the plotting or the rusty acting. It's the pacing, the clunky rhythm of the action-adventure. Thank goodness, the quality of "24" fluctuates, so it has real potential to become great again in future episodes.
Read Full Review >Boston GlobeMatthew Gilbert
Much as I am compelled to watch "24," and admire its craft, I find that I can't take it seriously.
Read Full Review >Pittsburgh Post-GazetteRob Owen
"24" still maintains some of its trademark intensity, but too often in these first four hours, the show is smack-your-forehead laughable.
Read Full Review >What Our Users Said
The average user rating for this show is 7.9 (out of 10) based on 97 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.
Nicholas C. gave it a2:
Honestly, 24 is a great show! Always was, always will be. It does however end with Season 4. The only interesting characters die in an absolutely pathetic manner, other characters die because they're just morons surrounded by more morons and the plot -- it stops being a political thriller and becomes a very poor imitation of StarWars. I own seasons 1 to 4 on DVD, watched season 5 and after seeing season 6 decided that I'm more interested in Telletubbys than season 7. I don’t know what happened to the guys making it between seasons 4 and 5, but right now the show is simply idiotic, to say the least. Full-stop.
Goofy Disney gave it an8:
This show is fun to watch because series after after series CTU, and the presidency don't learn. There is always a assassination attempt, and CTU forget about a sewer network running right under them. In this series i thought the idea that jack's family were involved in the terrorist strikes was slightly unlikely. Ridiculous parts include, -When jack kicks a suicide bomber out of a train -When jack storms a Russian embassy -When he takes a nuclear component form high security -The president asking for jacks return from a Chinese prison to fight terrorism -The apparent skill jack has with guns -How different the president and vice president are considering how one is center and the other is sometimes far right wing -When the president fakes a nuclear strike on a country -When jack flies a nuclear carrying plane -The apparent sensitivity jack has for his girlfriend after all the torture and killing -Sometimes the timing on the show is off, such as jack has a shave, shower, gets dress and is on the road in less than a minute. -The count less times we find that someone related to someone we already know is apart of the terrorism.
[Anonymous] gave it a4:
This show has officially "jumped the shark".
Darshan W. gave it a9:
24 just picks up where it left off. just breathless action. Yes some of the situations would even get superman in trouble but Jack some how pull it off! first rate!
Kevin L. gave it a7:
Great drama. Intriguing characters as well as suspenseful plotline. The intensity just grabs you every episode.
computa gave it a1:
the worst season yet...i guess there is only 1/4 of the season that is interesting and the rest is just random conversations...plus there is just too much non important subplots
Slotkins gave it a5:
Same ol', same ol'. Yeah, I watched it all, but by the end felt like I'd seen it all before - and just last year. It's just a soap opera with an suitcase nukes. And what did we learn this season? That torture is wrong - if the subject is in the regular cast, otherwise go ahead. I'd like to water-board the creators and see if next season is just another hack-job reshuffle of "previously on 24". Is that all they got?
