24 (2001)
Counterterrorism agent Jack Bauer fights the bad guys of the world, a day at a time. With each week's episode unfolding in real-time, "24" covers a single day in the life of Bauer each season.
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What critics compared 24 to
In fact, it looks a lot like an episode of 24, and that’s not where the similarities end.
Even if it often recalls quick-cut, accelerated-pace TV shows like 24, the aesthetic feels fresh.
…it is both riveting and sprawling, even as it is shot mostly in shaky-cam closeup that calls to mind the tenser moments of 24…
Bigelow's film feels bizarrely cut out of the same post-9/11 nationalism that birthed similar media like 24.
It’s like Bigelow found the perfect marriage between the stressful kineticism of hit aughts series 24 and the cerebral video work of Harun Farocki.
…like any thriller where lives hang in the balance, such as any episode of 24…
By grafting old-school procedural pleasures onto a 24-esque real-time format, the show produced a genuinely novel structure in the post-prestige era that was impossible to look away from.
Because we’re watching a day in the life of the hospital spread across a full season à la 24, we can anticipate checking back in with characters as the clock ticks on.
…while the first season was telling one long story stretched across a single day, with each episode covering about an hour of time (a concept once popularized by Fox's jingoistic "war on terror" hit "24")…
The Pitt freshens up the hospital genre by splicing the intensity of The Bear, the urgency of 24, and a bit of House’s medical mystery into a viewing experience that starts off slow, but keeps on running once it gets its legs.
…it’s a 24-style “one hour of TV = one hour life” tour through one 15-hour shift for senior attending Dr. Michael “Robby” Rabinavitch (Wyle).
…this medical drama–meets–24 season…
…or the show finds a clever get-out option, like 24, whose 24-hour structure left no room for funeral planning or eulogies and allowed the show to kill off characters more or less every other week, just for LOLs…
Rory makes everyone run out of the hangar (to avoid a nuclear bomb, like that time Jack Bauer avoided a nuclear explosion in 24 by hiding behind a rock)…
That ended badly, with a vial of the virus cracking and hissing on the ground, which reminded us of 24, but since Oliver was right next to it at the time, it presumably turned out to be not quite that deadly after all.
Generally speaking, it is a bad idea, both in life and in TV shows to nuke towns (just ask 24), as it’s too big of an event for things to carry on as normal afterwards.
This time, the series channels The Pitt and 24 by setting the entire season, except the finale, over the course of one day.
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Sure, it’s still a concept episode in its way (or two, I suppose, doing The Poseidon Adventure in space alongside an hour of Jack Bauer-style, real-time 24 action)…