At Last!

It’s been a long time coming, but we finally had some good stuff in 24 this week. Best scene of season six has to be Jack, Morris and Nadia fighting back against the terrorists who’d invaded CTU. Admittedly, lardy Morris’s attempts were a tad comical, but Nadia should have been sent off on field duty along time ago with her Charlie’s Angels-working-in-a-posh-building-society routine. And we also had some fun when dopey White House aide clobbered the spy who shagged her with both a bottle of cheap wine and a light fitting. Excellent.

One of many problems with this series has been that Jack’s the only one allowed to do any fighting or rescuing. Sure, peroxide field agent Ricky Schroder gets to a bit of shooting, but CTU is a rather useless department when the only member able to do anything was actually declared dead two years ago. Big changes are needed next series and one of the first has to be to team Jack up with a high-kicking female counterpart.

Actually, marry Jack to his sister-in-law-off-Melrose-Place and have them off battling terrorists all over the world in a variety of disguises. It might sound a lot like Alias, but that would be the perfect antidote to this humour-free sixth season.