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Season 2 starts fairly flimsily and picks up hugely after Nina is brought into CTU, and especially from the moment Kate is kidnapped

As aforementioned, there is a relentless tension which fills this season like a building smog, and it’s glorious

Season 2 also contains 24’s best episode (episode 15, in Bradley's opinion).

• The Game/Max

  • Love the first-person shooter stuff, similarly sniper missions
  • Puzzle solving is solid but really repetitive and not that hard
  • Interrogations are alright, weirdly I really struggled when I played recently having always done them fairly easily
  • The driving missions are shocking
  • He targeted Prescott, who survived an assassination attempt by Peter Madsen’s men
  • Madsen kidnapped Kate and Max used her to blackmail Bob into helping him smuggle nuclear weapons out of the country
  • He’s a German arms dealer with ties to the Middle East. The US government caught onto him, his deals with the Middle East fell through, and his contacts there forced Max to watch his children be executed, for which he blames the US hence the attacks
  • Gameplay:
  • Annoyingly the story isn’t the most coherent and often missions exist simply to exist (Bringing In Lee Jin Yu, who is actually a terrorist with Peter Madsen, where you’re chased and there’s a van that shoots at you, with the aim of destroying your car to kill you. Even though they need Joseph Sin-Chung to be at CTU)
  • Max:

• David Palmer’s presidency

  • Hell of a thing for David to deal with in our first in-office sighting of him, and within the first 10 months of his presidency
  • I like that David remains true to his principles throughout, even when all non-fourth wall breaking logic suggests he should change his mind (e.g. we know Cyprus is fake, but David’s faith in Jack is *mental* given all the confirmations)
  • Not keen on him having accepted Sherry back into things, even briefly, though I am intrigued by the moments 12-3am where he looks incompetent and like he’s just appeasing his highest-ranking staff with his decision-making
  • David’s character and control is great, even when experiencing the pressure from everyone around him.

• What to do with Kim?

  • On an emotional level, Jack’s concern for getting her out of LA is fine, and the various tearful interactions between them work nicely
  • A bonkers plot involving an abusive father, technical kidnapping, assault, murder suspect,...