r/TwentyFour

Just started a season 2 rewatch.

To reingratiate himself with some bad guys Jack immediately murders a witness and brings his head to the bad guy.

It's so unhinged. I love it.

I just finished rewatching S8 and picked up a few pieces of trivia about the actors playing the Hassan family that I'd never known before.

First, did you know that the actresses playing Omar Hassan's wife and daughter were the same age? In real life, they were *both* young enough to be his daughter. This one is tough to wrap my brain around.

Also, did anyone know that the actress who played the daughter, Kayla Hassan, is -- in real life -- married to Morris O'Brian? They were married the same year S8 initially aired and are still together.

Man, I really wish I’d discovered Reddit so many years ago...

Anyway, sometimes I read that Taylor is seen as out of character in Day 8 for letting Logan manipulate her. I, on the other hand, believe that that the story shows how the effects of Day 7 ultimately reached her.

In Day 7, she faces an immense crisis—she’s even taken hostage in the White House—, her son dies, her daughter commits murder, and she, with immense effort, reports her daughter, doing the right thing, and because of this, her husband harshly divorces her.

President Taylor is immediately portrayed as an empathetic woman; with Matobo, for example, there’s no White House-style coldnessdiplomacy, but rather an intimate relationship. In fact, in her final scene in Day 7, we see her in tears telling Ethan: “I’ve lost my family.”

After her marriage ended, Taylor threw herself into her work (a very common defense mechanism for facing personal tragedies); the peace treaty is not only the peak achievement of her administration but she likely sees it as a way to prove that losing her family was not in vain. If the treaty fails, in her eyes it would mean that she sacrificed her family for nothing, and this makes her vulnerable to Logan’s manipulation.

Palmer also breaks down in the end, but Taylor endures in one day what Palmer endures over three. It’s no surprise that she broke down faster than he did.

I usually blaze through s01 to s08 pretty quickly. But I also take a pause before watching s09. I don't know why. My brain just needs that gap in my binge.

Anyone do the same?