JPTV: What I'm Watching Tonight

Regarding 24 - Short answer: no. This season has been a parody. It has nearly ruined the entire run of the show, in my eyes. I am sure that the supposed "shocking" ending will result more in laughter than the surprise that they were going for. It is really hard to watch the show these days, but once you start, I have to stick it out. Maybe I will make sure that I am out of the house on the night of the season 7 premiere so I am sure to miss it and not get suckered into it.

Though if it really does get the reboot they are promising it could be watchable again...

I feel that I owe 24 something after five awesome seasons. This season has been lame, no doubt about it, but I'm a sentimental guy. I still buy Liz Phair's disks even though she bites now. I watched X-Files to the bitter end, even though it also bit in the last two seasons. The only show I've given up on is the Simpsons. After watching it for 14 years, they owed me something, and that something was an occasional humorous episode.

I'll be watching 24 tonight because I have a wasted investment in ot and I'm stubborn. I might give them the benefit of the doubt next season for one or two episodes, but if it stinks like this year.....goodbye.

I might catch Heroes when it is repeated on Sci-Fi later. My viewing of it is spotty at best and I don't really know the characters or what is going on beyond what I read here.

I quit Sopranos a few years ago because my son was getting old enough that I couldn't keep him occupied with other activites while it was on and I didn't really find it appropriate for the him.

LOST!!! I can't wait!

I'll be watching 24 tonight, but solely to be able to take pride in my own masochism by saying "I watched every episode of the sixth season of 24". The show was dying all season, and the minute they killed Eric Balfour off for no good reason (other than perhaps because his agent had advised him not to waste another year in this turkey), it became Zombie 24.

As for the summer, hope springs eternal with the sacking of Arnold Shapiro as the producer of Big Brother... although I have the feeling that the only way that show will ever really work is if all the male houseguests are completely clueless jocks and the women are all manipulative beauties -- to me nothing says compulsively watchable trash televsion like eye candy with testosterone poisoning combined with multiple Alexis Carrington Colbys.

Not to spoil anything, but as someone who was also terribly disappointed with the crap that was 24's 6th season, I must say the ending was...ok.

There were things that could've been done to jump the shark for the fifty-million-people-are-gonna-die time, that didn't. For which I am grateful. Still, that doesn't mean there weren't some moments where I was rolling my eyes and banging my head in dismay.

I don't know...Jack's still cool, in his way.

@Joanna: You know, I actually agree. Just blogged a post about it.

@p_lukasiak: Good to have you back!

@Keith: Sopranos is out for the kid, but 24 works? I guess the Sopranos violence is a little more hands-on. But dude, you're paying for HBO: multiplays are your friend!

@everyone else: OK, you talked me into it, I watched.

James,

My son is now 14 and I imagine he has heard words that would make me blush.....and I know a lot of bad words. This was back in the first or second season of the Sopranos when you really didn't want the "little" ones hearing the F word every other breath. We could set him up in his room with toys or a video and watch Sopranos for an hour. Eventually, he wanted to be where mom and dad were at, so we just quit watching. Now, the rationalization of 24. Jack is killing bad guys and not shouting the F word thru the whole program. Besides, at 14 my son is parked in front of the computer on his myspace with four different IM programs running and texting on his phone all at the same time. I could be watching porn and he'd never know.

All this complaining about "24" being a dud this season. Poor Jack, he's been tortured, drugged, beaten, shot and worst of all he's had his heart broken each and every season. Hey this show is an hours worth of fantasy, it's not real folks. In my humble opinion the best show on TV is "The Shield". Thank God the "Ultra Right Wing" do gooders who would love nothing better than tell us all what we can watch haven't been able to kill it.