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Review: 24 – 7×1-7×4
In the US: Mondays, 9/8c, Fox
In the UK: Mondays, 9pm, Sky One
Sometimes a year off can be a boon. Like a gap year or backpacking round Europe, it can give you new perspectives and distance on things you used to take for granted.
24‘s been stuck on the TGV of TV for over a year now, its last season cancelled by the writers’ strike, with only an anaemic and turgid TV movie to keep us going since then. But as this four-episode, two-night intro to the new season shows, it’s come back a whole lot more vigorous than when it left and it’s brought a bunch of old friends with it.
