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

24
Critic Score
Metascore: 79 Metascore out of 100
User Score  
8.0 out of 10
based on 23 reviews
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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.

GENRE(S): Action / Adventure, Drama
CREATED BY: Joel Surnow
Robert Cochran
FIRST AIR DATE: January 14, 2007

The premiere consists of two hours on Sunday 1/14 (8-10p) and again on Monday 1/15 (8-10p) before the show settles into its regular 9-10p timeslot on Monday 1/22.

What The Critics Said

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100
New York Daily News David Hinckley
Unlike most serialized dramas of late... "24" continues to do everything right.
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100
New York Post Adam 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.
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100
USA Today Robert 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.
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100
Detroit Free Press Mike Duffy
No, the thrill isn't gone. "24" remains a wild 'n' crazy roller-coaster ride.
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90
Wall Street Journal Dorothy 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.
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90
Chicago Tribune Maureen 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.
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88
People Weekly Tom Gliatto
The series' sixth season begins with an intensely entertaining four-hour, two-night premiere. [15 Jan 2007, p.33]
88
San Jose Mercury News Charlie 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.
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80
The New York Times Alessandra Stanley
Even in its sixth season, “24” remains remarkably compelling.
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80
TV Guide Matt 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.
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80
LA Weekly Robert 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.
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80
Newsday Verne 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.
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80
Hollywood Reporter Barry Garron
This remains a superb, positively riveting TV drama, however repetitive the themes and grandly implausible the scenarios.
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80
Baltimore Sun David 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.
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80
Arizona Republic Bill 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.
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75
Entertainment Weekly Gillian 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]
75
San Francisco Chronicle Tim 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?"
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70
Seattle Post-Intelligencer Melanie McFarland
So just put your intelligence on hold for an hour or four, and you'll be ecstatic at Day 6's beginning.
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70
Variety Brian Lowry
The four episodes previewed are far from flawless, but even with their lapses and excesses, I can hardly wait for the next hour.
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70
Newark Star-Ledger Alan 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.
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50
Chicago Sun-Times Doug 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.
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50
Boston Globe Matthew Gilbert
Much as I am compelled to watch "24," and admire its craft, I find that I can't take it seriously.
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40
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette Rob Owen
"24" still maintains some of its trademark intensity, but too often in these first four hours, the show is smack-your-forehead laughable.
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What Our Users Said

Vote Now!The average user rating for this tv show is 8.0 (out of 10) based on 95 User Votes
Note: User votes are NOT included in the Metascore calculation.

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?

Brendan D gave it a0:
Not only was this far and away the worst season of 24, it was one of the worst seasons in the history of television. The plot, which is usually strapped thin but paid off in spades in the series' superb fifth season, was horrendous and convoluted as usual, only this season, the writers decided to add boring conversations and cheesy retroactive continuity to the mix. Honestly, the season might have been saved if they'd have brought back Tony Almeida from the dead. Sure, it's an unbelievable and stupid plot twist, but in light of the sheer boredom and unequivocal failure that was Season Six, it would at least have been a WELCOME unbelievable and stupid plot twist. Instead, we had interoffice romances that had me screaming "NOBODY CARES" at the screen every ten minutes; treatments of abuses (prisoner, power, alcohol) that offended me as a writer; and an attempt by writers who obviously worship at the Church of Michael Bay of Latter-Day Morons attempting to use long-winded speeches to explain something profound. Not since the Michael Jordan-led Chicago Bulls were disassembled has something gone from Top to Bottom within a season. It's deplorable, and my only hope is that next year, they do something ballsy like killing off Jack or cloning a zombie version of Tony to take out all the people who work in CTU (and hopefully Defense Secretary Heller, who has been in that job now for at least four presidential administrations).

samijo gave it a6:
Well, it started off promising and then turned into the same ol' same ol'. This saeson is just a repeat of 5 and 6..Gee..CTU security was breached *shock* There was a SPY in the White house *shock again* Jack Baure is a badass???*gasp* more like YAAAAWWWWN

s s gave it a10:
Best show ever!!!

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