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Review/Commentary
Reviewer: J
I hope nobody's expecting a long, thoughtful, thought-provoking review from me today. I say this for multiple reasons, not the least of which is that I have a head cold that is not keeping me in bed or anything, but rather has completely eliminated my senses of taste and smell. It's good, though, because I'm not inclined to snack at all since I can't taste anything anyway. Incidentally, have I ever told you that one of my huge pet peeves is any commercial where a person is whining and pouting and staying in bed…. because they have a freakin' cold!!! Ugh, drives me crazy. Grow up, people. Take some DayQuil and go to work, slackers.
Ah, yes, I'm digressing. Another reason, and a more pertinent one, that I don't expect to say much today is that there isn't much to review. I mean, what happened? Let's see… they found Nina, Jack punched her (which was satisfying for those of us watching for a few years), Nina managed to unleash hell on the CTU computer system, Milliken expired, Sherry was annoying, Julia was pathetic, President Palmer had about four lines, Chappelle resurfaced from the toilet or wherever he was last hour when something actually happened, Chloe continued to be weird and annoying, and Kim found out that - DUM DUM DUM - Chase has a lovechild! And that's about it. That's all folks, see you next week.
What? You're still here? Okay, seriously, this was a sweeps episode? Speaking of the whole baby subplot, even if you feel it makes it marginally more interesting, are we really supposed to care that much about Chase and Kim's relationship? I typically don't say anything about the scenes from the next week in my reviews, but I did notice that Kim makes some lame-ass comment about "We've been together for more than three months and you haven't told me this?" Whoop-dee-shit, Kim. People have secrets. And to repeatedly make note of the fact that you've been together for three whole months is annoying. I've got things in my fridge older than three months, sweetheart. And if I were dating a girl who kept bringing that sort of thing up, I think I'd get tired of it in a hurry (of course, seeing her naked would probably absolve a lot of sins). Not to mention the fact that he has been shot, beaten and nearly killed multiple times over the past 12 hours, so the last thing he needs is to be nagged by a pinhead who's been in the office the whole time. Sheesh. Yeah, yeah, three months, wahoo.
Is Penny Johnson Jerald/Sherry Palmer perhaps the most overrated actor/character working today? I mean, she irritated the hell out of me in nearly every single scene she was in during Seasons One and Two, and then when they were bringing her back, people rejoiced. The networks promoted her as everyone's "favorite villain," etc. Blah blah blah. I've never liked her, as my reviews will show. And I have never thought she was as good an actor as everyone else seems to. So now she's back, being squirrely as ever, throwing around lies like nothing, clearly having not learned anything from nearly killing a few million people by being part of a conspiracy to detonate a nuke in Los Angeles. I already pontificated on her stupid-ass comment about believing in Palmer's presidency, so I won't do it again. In this hour, she even goes so far as to upset a man with a heart condition to the point where he has an attack; and then she intentionally lets his suffer, physically restrains someone else from helping him, and then puts together a quick lie to cover up the fact that she and Julia Milliken are inadvertently to blame. Wha? Wait, wait, wait… did that all really happen on my TV set? Does she honestly think there's no way it could get tied to her and, thus, to the President? Did she honestly believe Milliken should be dead?? Is that really her call? How is he going to call off his dogs now? I guess Sherry is hoping Julia not only really did disable the surveillance cameras, but also is stable enough to stick to the story. And if the police noticed someone's surveillance cameras mysteriously were shut off right before their death, wouldn't that possibly lead to an investigation? Unreal. Simply unreal.
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