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A Modern Spy
Jack Bauer has got a background from the army and works for a counter-terrorist unit (CTU) in Los Angeles. After 9/11 the situation is tense and all sources of information especially digital data are compiled and evaluated to estimate the danger of new attacks. All starts … and Jack Bauer is faced with a mess of action and treason as well as dangerous threads to the public within the next 24 hours.
It’s a realtime series – and during the seasons the catastrophes have to be foreseen and attacks to be stopped. Jack Bauer is the main protagonist to end it all, however, there is an awful price to be paid by him personally. He is a national hero as well as a scapegoat when he interferes with the plans of politicians or other influential people.
I don’t want to go into detail concerning the plots of the seasons. Let’s just summarize that it is always exciting and at the same time there are cruel scenes – a climax of violence and lack of law.
Bauer is often faced with murder conspiracies which are connected to large-scale attacks. A certain amount of crime – even when related to terrorism – is on the plate.
Of course Bauer is another type of spy like the prototypes from the 50s or 60s who worked clandestine and murdered alike – international terrorism wasn’t on stage at these times. Even James Bond literarily born in the 50s became the omnipotent world savior only later in the 90s and the following decades in the movies. Bauer is dirtier and his combatants are dirtier still than all the spy generations before. Another spy of this new type is Carrie Mathison from the series Homeland.
… and of course it’s the ultimate series for binge-watching!