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24

                                                “My name is Jack Bauer and this is the longest day of my life” Next week 24 returns in the form of a miniseries named 24: Live Another Day.   In light of this I wanted to offer a few comments on each season the old series, which I was a fan of from the day it first aired in 2001.   Please note, as always I will discuss some major spoilers so if you have not seen the series yet it may be best to read this after you have done so, for free if you have an Amazon Prime account (or you could even borrow the DVDs for free at a local library. Season 1 (2001-2002) I read the reviews of the pilot and knew, though I usually don’t watch a lot of television series, a real time thriller about a federal agent balancing a threat against an African American presidential candidate and searching for his missing daughter was too intriguing to pass up.   I decided to watch part of the pilot episode, bowing out if it did not grab me s