Is President Logan the best thing 24's got going right now?
The Chicago Tribune's TV critic Maureen Ryan thinks that the sudden appearance of Gregory Itzin, reprising his role as the corrupt and evil former President Charles Logan on 24, is a rare shining moment in a rather lackluster season, the first hour hours notwithstanding.
". . . [I]t's as though the writers are flailing and scraping and doing all they can to come up with compelling stuff, but unfortunately they're only partially successful at best," Ryan said, as she sliced and diced Jack Bauer's sixth day, including calling the idea of having the late President David Palmer's brother Wayne become president " a big mistake."
While I was thrilled to see Logan and think he is a highlight amid a string of some odd weeks in 24, I wouldn't go as far as Ryan, who calls watching this season "drudgery." (Though I do agree with her on the President Palmer II bit being a bad idea.)
It has not been that bad. True, 24 has had its moments of distinctly, un-24-like campishness this season. How campy was it to have a soapy storyline involving never-before-seen Bauer family players? As long as Josh Bauer doesn't wind up being Jack's love child, I can excuse the whole family storyline as an unpleasant tangent, kind of like the Mexican drug-related storyline on another one of Jack's bad days.

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