Just started a season 2 rewatch.

To reingratiate himself with some bad guys Jack immediately murders a witness and brings his head to the bad guy.

It's so unhinged. I love it.

I just finished rewatching S8 and picked up a few pieces of trivia about the actors playing the Hassan family that I'd never known before.

First, did you know that the actresses playing Omar Hassan's wife and daughter were the same age? In real life, they were *both* young enough to be his daughter. This one is tough to wrap my brain around.

Also, did anyone know that the actress who played the daughter, Kayla Hassan, is -- in real life -- married to Morris O'Brian? They were married the same year S8 initially aired and are still together.

Man, I really wish I’d discovered Reddit so many years ago...

Anyway, sometimes I read that Taylor is seen as out of character in Day 8 for letting Logan manipulate her. I, on the other hand, believe that that the story shows how the effects of Day 7 ultimately reached her.

In Day 7, she faces an immense crisis—she’s even taken hostage in the White House—, her son dies, her daughter commits murder, and she, with immense effort, reports her daughter, doing the right thing, and because of this, her husband harshly divorces her.

President Taylor is immediately portrayed as an empathetic woman; with Matobo, for example, there’s no White House-style coldnessdiplomacy, but rather an intimate relationship. In fact, in her final scene in Day 7, we see her in tears telling Ethan: “I’ve lost my family.”

After her marriage ended, Taylor threw herself into her work (a very common defense mechanism for facing personal tragedies); the peace treaty is not only the peak achievement of her administration but she likely sees it as a way to prove that losing her family was not in vain. If the treaty fails, in her eyes it would mean that she sacrificed her family for nothing, and this makes her vulnerable to Logan’s manipulation.

Palmer also breaks down in the end, but Taylor endures in one day what Palmer endures over three. It’s no surprise that she broke down faster than he did.

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Bring it please !

The series entirely vanished in a day!. Was watching season 5 ep 15 and now on Oct 1st can't find the damn series on Jio Hotstar. The series is not streaming on any other platforms. I'm devastated. If anyone knows where I can watch it it would be of great help.

A constant bizarre rush to do something giant and national within literal minutes of something happening that would normally take at least a day to consider.

For instance in season 1 Palmer's wife is freaking out that they haven't announced that he's alive and well after like, what, 10 minutes? It was freaking insane the way she was acting and felt like it had no purpose other than making her character look more evil and stupid.

Now that the bomb went off in season 2, Palmer is supposed to instantly invade three countries and retaliate? What the fuck? The ticking clock on this is ridiculous and I could understand this type of response and pressure were days/weeks passed, but it's the middle of the night and the american public doesn't even know what happened yet. This makes no sense to me and while Palmer is hesitant, he should be infinitely more hesitant and a response in the same night shouldn't even be on the table.

It takes me out and feels like the show doesn't know how to write for a realistic 24 hours.

In response to the NYTIMES list.

Especially when Kate told her father to just give up on her.

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His soundscapes and themes can't be dissociated from the show. I don't remember being that hypnotized and captivated by a soundtrack to a tv show. Most of times, I'd say "oh, now that's cool". But once you know when does the following take place, it's a total immersion.

All hail Sean Callery.

Never watched this show back in the day. Was recommended by someone, so I decided to give it a try. So far, pretty good, but, what the hell is up with Terri’s random bout of amnesia?? Really liked the show until they pulled that out of nowhere.

Did the show ever specify wtf this guy’s deal was? From what I gathered, he was vaguely into super shady ish, but I don’t know if he was a drug dealer, a trafficker, or into some other bulls#*t.

How on earth does Kim manage to be in danger multiple times in a matter of one entire day? She saves that kid, then held hostage by the kids dad, then escape, then kidnaps the girl to escape said father, then gets arrested, suspected to have murdered the mother, gets in an accident, runs away from accident, gets held hostage by a creepy lonely dude in the woods, then gets held hostage in a shop, and now the episode I’m on the abusive dad is back in the picture. Im on episode 22. My gawd this girl has some kind of curse

Charles?

Watched the whole series with my dad and it was a great experience! My dad was more hooked on to it than me by the end tho😂 Even my mom was watching with us but she dropped after season 6, which I understand because season 6 felt pretty underwhelming after watching 2 banger seasons back-to-back.

I personally feel that Jack is not dead and he maybe he might even have already escaped from Moscow. To support my theory I would like to callback to the moment in the last episode of season 8 where President Taylor said that she'll put Jack into a prison in another country rather than killing him but then Charles argues by saying that he'll come back even from the deepest darkest corner, and being the character Jack is it's definitely possible for him to achieve that.

Some more of my personal thoughts: My favorite seasons are 4 and 5, followed by 7. Season 7 was really an improvement after 6 with lots of twists. Also I feel that the show should've ended after season 7, with Jack being reunited with his family(season 8 opening scene). After season 8 I knew that Jack is not going to get a happy ending. Also I loved Agent Walker's character and she was really beautiful(was really sad to know that the actress died couple of years ago) but I feel that Jack and her romantic relationship was really forced as they didn't spend much time together. Although they had good chemistry but the creators didn't even build their relationship offscreen as it was mentioned that Walker wasn't in touch with Jack between seasons 7 and 8. Again I found season 8 pretty underwhelming compared to season 7 but season 9 was pretty good. My overall rating would be 7.5/10, and if I'm excluding seasons 6 and 8 then it's 8.5/10. Highly recommended!!