24 (TV Series) Day 6: 6:00 a.m.-7:00 a.m. (2007) User Reviews

This season starts in a hurry

[eartherian · 8/10 · 23 September 2012]

When compared to all the previous seasons, this one seems to start in a hurry. In the previous seasons, the new characters were introduced in a way that the viewer gets time to sink them inside. But the things start at a pace in this season. They must be counting on the maturity of the viewer of 24, which must have increased with all these passing seasons.

Needless to say, the character of Jack Bauer has grown with time and the piece of acting we get to see in this first episode says it all.

But the plot does leaves me with questions. How come Jack Bauer could not escape from the Chinese? The fact that he remained in the Chinese capture does not do justice with the level of intelligence he has.

Maybe, they have kept a answer for this in the coming episodes!

Episode 1 - Gripping Drama

[rjh009 · 9/10 · 10 January 2007]

After previewing the incredible first 4 hours, Day Six seems destined to be 5 parts "Crash", 10 parts Clancy thriller. The terror that unfolds is more horrifying and real than ever, and I've never rooted for/sympathized with Bauer more, and I've seen every episode in the series 5 times over.

America is under siege by a large network of suicide bombers, leaving the country in a perpetual state paranoia to the extent that the government, led by a new President Palmer (DB Woodside) is inclined to begin operation of WWII style detention centers to ease fears.

The moral ambiguity of this season is incredibly well crafted by the writers. The action is, of course, top notch and the tension runs deep.

The only point of criticism is the forced office politics at CTU, especially the tiresome squabbling between Milo and Morris O'Brian.

But the shocking conclusion at the end of episode 4 left me shaking and nearly in tears. This season could easily trump all the others ten fold.

Great beginning

[Mike-on-TV · 9/10 · 15 January 2007]

I was turned on to 24 over the Christmas holiday by my parents. They have made it their mission to rent and watch every season of the secret agent thriller throughout the final 4 months of 2006. It was over the course of two days that we watched the final 7 episodes (hours) of season 5. Now I'm hooked.

Being that I'm (in a way) caught up and am now a big fan I feel it's my duty to report on the current activities of CTU agent Jack Bauer. As we remember Jack was kidnapped by the Chinese for events (I'm assuming) that took place in prior seasons. It is now two years since and the apparently worn out lead role has been returned to his homeland for unprecedented settlements and is being relied on for even more outlandish expectations.

As all I'm sure the loyal 24 audience is used to, there is a fresh man in office. This year it's a new President Palmer and he has purchased Jack's freedom from the Chinese. The president plans on negotiated with the shady Abu Fayed, Jack's life for the whereabouts of the suspect in a series of bombings, terrorist Hamri Al-Assad. Oddly there is no objection from would be martyr as he has been looking forward to dying for a cause since his kidnapping some time ago. Hey months of torture will do that to a guy.

Fayed has a grudge with Jack from years prior. But thankfully resentment-riddled jerk has an ego. Before he can begin his revenge on the willing lead Fayed, as all evil masterminds must do, unfold his true intentions for the world. Of course this gives our hero a cause to fight for and thus comes the climax of the first hour. Jack takes a bite out of terrorism, literally.

With only one hour after being returned from a Chinese prison the star is thrown back into the mix of fighting to save America. It looks like it's going to be one of those days.

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Jack is Back

[antony_elliott · 10/10 · 11 January 2007]

This series jumps straight back into it. There is no gently gently for Jack.

Have watched the first two episodes and they are brilliant. Full of some shocks, some gasps of what happened in the break between season 5 and 6.

Once again it is the undertones of the characters that is the real pull here. Trying to see the changes that has occurred in the stars since the last season. How is Jack mentally after China? How have the others coped with the events in last season.

Basically the next few months of my life are now set with 24.

Welcome back Jack.

[bifties · 10/10 · 8 January 2007]

I have just this minute finished watching the first 4 episodes of the new series, and without giving anything away, I am happy to report that this series looks to be just as exciting as its 5 predecessors. Excellent! Not to be missed.

I admit that half way through the first episode I was more than a little upset, but by the end of the episode I was more than happy with where the story looked to be going.

And, with all the previous series I was completely wrong about where the story was going.

However, for those of you out there that have not seen some or all of the previous series, I strongly recommend you go back and watch all of them in order. I promise you will not be disappointed.

Like millions of others out there, I know that Jack Bauer is probably the

Welcome back Jack.

debate and decision

[freetobreathe · 10/10 · 14 January 2007]

Really the best acting performances on TV in a long time. But even better is the writing! The twists and turns of plot leave the viewer dizzy and asking for more. Weaving political and historical analysis in the plots creates an entertaining mix of the real and the fictional...a so very contemporary tableaux that can only serve as a lightning rod for discussion.

Life is like this. The interaction among characters and events lead into myriad and complex directions of reality and 24 has managed to capture this temporal nuance. Interaction among the characters often leads to monumental tragedy but the lonely road of the hero who goes against the prevailing norms and bureacracy can save the day...usually...but there is no guarantee as we have seen with Jack's virtual abandonment in China at the end of the last season.

The country needs Jack Bauer more than ever but can he rise to the challenge again?

[SgtLennon · 10/10 · 2 June 2014]

There are bad seasons of television and then there are disappointing seasons of television. Season six of "24" fits into the definition of the latter. Considered by many to be the worst season of the series, the sixth season is VERY disappointing.

What separates this season from another like recent mismanaged year of television, such as "Dexter" season eight, which was preordained to be bad, this season of 24 had the potential to be good — possibly great. The previous season ended with Jack Bauer (Kiefer Sutherland) beaten to a pulp after being captured by the Chinese Government. He was on a slow boat to China, awaiting endless sessions of torture for his information.

Showrunner Howard Gordon, who also wrote this premiere, provides the strongest season premiere by virtue of decorating the series universe with relative chaos. When the season opens, the United States is in the eleventh week of a domestic terrorist siege. Small terrorist attacks litter the country. Terrorism isn't being quelled, and it looks like the bad guys are winning. People judge middle eastern citizens through suspicious lenses. As what they see as the only recourse, the government detains citizens in camps.

Great presidents like Franklin Roosevelt foolishly dealt with similar circumstances by detaining Japanese-American citizens, who all turned out to be innocent of incriminating associations. At the beginning of the season, Former President David Palmer's (Dennis Haysbert) brother, Wayne Palmer (D.B. Woodside) starts as the Commander-In-Chief. "24" weakens the country's chance of survival by having Palmer be an impotent, indecisive leader.

Even worse, Jack Bauer finally returns as part of deal, in exchange for the location of the terrorist head leading the attacks, in worse mental shape than when he first left. He bears two years of torture scars on the back of his hand and countless psychological scars. The terrorist deputy Abu Fayed (Adoni Maropis) wants Bauer dead for retribution of the death of his brother, in events that occurred before the series. The dire circumstances requires people to react in unique ways.

So, the country needs to him to die to have a fighting chance at survival — and Bauer is more than happy to oblige, his will broken after years of torture. Between the closing moments of season five and the opening episode of the sixth season, Sutherland provides some of his best acting on the show. What's great about that last scene in season five is it's brutal reminder about the stakes of the series, while Sutherland reminding the audience ("I know how this works. I just need to be make a phone call...please just one phone call...") that not even Jack Bauer is likely to escape this incident.

What makes this season premiere work is the fallibility of our lead character. As the scars show, he has limits to what he can endure. Even if it turns out that Fayed is the real leader and the initial head Hamri Al-Assad (Alexander Saddig) wants a ceasefire, can Jack Bauer rise once more from the ashes and save the country, even if he wants to? It's this that made this season potentially great, while ultimately disappointing, all the same.

Good Episode

[redHudson8 · 14 January 2007]

That was pretty vicious of Jack... being pretty much... Dracula. Who do you think will die in between 8:00 and 10:00? I don't know, but I know that Lock from the Matrix is in it, and The doctor from Star Trek Deep Space Nine!

I do know Shawn Majunder (a very funny comedian) is going to be on the show, for quite a while too, and he is going to do things that result in giant numbers of casulties. He is going to kill a major character too, not Jack or Karen, that's all I know, I have a hunch, I'm hoping not, but I have a small hunch that it's going to be Bill Buchanan. The last thing you'll be doing at Shawn Majunder on 9:55 PM tomorrow is be laughing.

24 is the best show EVER!

great start to the show - phenomenal first 4 hours - fifth hour starts nicely as well

[islandxtreme26 · 10/10 · 21 January 2007]

I purchased the season premiere for season 6 today, and have once again watched all 4 episodes - This tremendous start to the season makes it possible for new fans of the show to see how great it really is. Also included is the first 12 minutes of the fifth hour - Jack is back, he helps free a man trapped in a chopper that crashed due to ElectroMagnetic Pulse from the bomb, the president is in the bunker under the white house and Fayed is still alive - with four more "visitors" (suitcase nukes). Great show, great start to the new day...how can you top this??

Gotta Love 24!!!

Much the Worse for Wear

[Hitchcoc · 10/10 · 4 February 2019]

We are introduced to a crisis in the country. Muslim terrorists are blowing up buses and buildings and murdering innocents. Wayne Palmer is now the President and his chief of staff seems to be a zealot who wants to lock up all Islamic people. He is going against the President's orders and establishing internment camps. He is the newest internal villain in a long line of them.

Undignified homecoming

[Mr-Fusion · 6/10 · 22 May 2017]

The image of Jack stepping onto US soil is a startling one; weakened, dehumanized, eyes-to-the-ground. And the reason he's free at all is so that CTU can offer him as a sacrifice to stop the recent terror attacks. And while this episode certainly plays up the level of his personal sacrifice for his country, it's also all too willing to send him right back out there to save another day.

I get it, this is "24", and Jack just goes back to work, day-in and day-out. It's just that here, so much emphasis is placed on his miserable state, and there's almost no hesitation to going full badass again.

Regardless, there's no rest in this season opener, and a decidedly hurried one.

6/10

Finally this show has "Jumped the Shark"

[mobile_pc_sale · 2/10 · 15 January 2007]

I have watched all "24" episodes to date and have enjoyed them, however that being said let me continue with the reasons this show has overstayed is appeal and gone the route of The X-Files and similarly "thrown together for ad revenue" shows.

It used to be fairly well matched to the running clock, yet now we are fed some completely unrealistic timelines, one of the several that annoyed me from ep01 last night was the 2 and a half minutes Jack had to steal a car, call into HQ, hotwire the car, drive somewhere (for arguments sake I'll say half a mile) park the car, find the right house, slip into the back yard, wait for the guard to come out, k.o. the guard, go inside the house, start a conversation with the target and let him know that in another 2 and a half minutes the house was going to be blown to pieces, lol Other completely unrealistic actions include doing complex computer operations in a mere few seconds, doing impossible computer operations in a mere few seconds etc etc.

Also, wasn't it nice of the guard standing watch, to not struggle while his neck is being chomped on and to die in 5 seconds without a noise or spurting any blood............

What used to be somewhat watchable and enjoyable (yet always somewhat far fetched) has turned into a complete joke of unrealistic moves, actions and timelines, just another good series gone bad due to poor writing and what probably amounts to the almighty dollar from the advertisers over content.

I will not be watching any more "24" and will be happy with the show on DVD of all earlier seasons, maybe I can forget I started to watch the new season altogether.

More annoying side characters

[stevelomas-27685 · 4/10 · 8 September 2021]

I really do like 24 but up to this season the Tom Lennox character just totally gets on my nerves and ruins the whole show not only is he completely disrespectful to the president, He is just beyond irritating I know this has been a theme throughout 24 but after six seasons it started become really tired some.