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November 12, 2003
24: Secret Crushes Revealed
Lots of magical things happened on last night's episode of the Season of Nonevents and Nonmurders at 24. The immediate, full-force, chainsaw-weilding attack of the CDC people on the non-drug-dealing kid's apartment, and the tasteful use of plastic shower curtains to seal off the virus were thrilling, and probably one of the more interesting sets the show's designers have gotten to do. Also ingenious was the headset that Kiefer wears inside his CDC spacesuit, and the scene in which he learns of the lawyer's murder, lurches into a super-fast biohazard shower, emerges from all the shower curtains, rips off his spacesuit helmet, and pukes. And the nearly instantaneous chemical analysis of the non-cocaine using some kind of virus-to-ethernet interface, via a laptop, was the most baffling use of whatever technology yet this season. I was already wavering on this season, I admit. But now that everybody's secret crush, Tony Almeida, has been shot in the neck, and lies bleeding and writhing on the second story floor of the Los Feliz mall, well, I guess they got my attention. Tony, just so you know, I am momentarily redirecting my ardent celebrity love for Mark Ruffalo to you, with the hope that my passion will cauterize your wounds. Please don't die. -amy
