But there are so many of them out there, by the time you've made it all the way through them, it's time for the new disks to hit the shelves.
To review, Jack Bauer (Sutherland), is the head of the Los Angeles Counter Terrorist Unit. The show documents 24 hours in real time and there are multiple story lines going on at once.
I've discovered some others that readers here might enjoy. Here's the lowdown:
Alias: C'mon, don't tell me you haven't see this yet. Jennifer Garner (she's from Houston!) as super double-agent Sydney Bristow, who was also a grad student in the first season... (Man, and I thought I had a busy schedule.) Her clothes and six bazillion wigs are fabulous. Lots of action and some intrigue thrown in for good measure, stir up some really bad guys to fight and outsmart, and you have a really fun show. A little something to make you wonder, this is from the ABC Sydney Bristow Agent Progile: Training/Special Skills: Krav Maga, track and field, Pilates, Linguistics, Theatre Arts, and electromagnetic lock picking.
The Shield: Michael Chiklis is Detective Vic Mackey, the rough leader of the LAPD Strike Team unit (based on the LAPD Rampart Division's corrupt anti-gang unit). These guys fight crime on the criminal's terms and while they get their hands dirty once in awhile, they seem to slip past any intense scrutiny the department sends their way. In 2002, the series took an Emmy Award. It's hard to decide sometimes if Vic and his crew are bad guys doing good things or good guys doing bad things. The writers set watchers up to not trust Vic in the pilot, when he wastes a guy on his own crew (Reed Diamond as Detective Crowley). FX has a real winner with this one.
Homicide: Life on the Street: Baltimore seems to be a den of crime-especially murder. In 1988, David Simon, a Baltimore Sun reporter, hooked up with the Baltimore PD Homicide Unit and documented a year in the life of a busy homicide squad. The series is based on David Simon's book of the same title and the plots are phenomenal, the characters are complex, and the dialogue intelligent-even witty at times. Guest directors give the gritty scenes a new interpretation that flows well without ever seeming sensational. One bit of trivia from the set: A criminal attempting to elude Baltimore city cops ran onto the set while Homicide was being filmed. The surprised bad guy saw all the uniforms and surrendered-to the actors. (The incident became an episode in the series. And if you're a Law & Order fan, you might recognize a few episodes that crossed over.
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