What I’m Watching: 24

24: Season 8, Episode 21 “12:00PM-1:00PM” (F)

I’m very much looking forward to all of this nonsense being done with once this show is over. It’s really at such an irreparable and irrecoverable point where there’s no hope of it achieving any quality for the rest of its run. I’m not addressing anything specifically but rather the show as a whole. Bringing Meredith Reed, a character who had some duplicitous, weird, unexplained connection to President Hassan, back into the plot of the show at this point feels a bit strange, but I suppose there needs to be something going on to keep Jack hungry for blood. Now that he’s spouting lines like “see you in hell,” he clearly has no regard for the life he’s living and he’ll on go on killing people until he’s done what he thinks he needs to do in order to exert justice. Cutting the SIM card out of the guy’s stomach after violently murdering him was even more extreme than most of the things he’s done before, and I have a strong feeling that it won’t be the craziest thing he does before the show goes off the air in less than two weeks. Regarding the revelation of the identity of the person who called the Russian Jack killed, haven’t we been here before, with Logan being behind everything? Is this a twist or just what we’ve known all along ever since Logan showed up? I can’t even sort it all out, and I really don’t think I want to. Another quick note to newbie Cole – it’s not a good idea to say to someone, “so you’re involved in the cover-up.” That usually leads to death. Watch your back, Cole.