After eight seasons, the phenomenon that was 24 has concluded. This program demanded that we pay attention to what was happening on the screen, and that was something new and special compared to “background” television programs that you didn’t have to watch carefully.
Here’s one review, from Mary McNamara at the Los Angeles Times:
>>In the end, it all came down to Jack and Chloe, surely one of television’s most complicated, and unconsummated, romances. Yes, Chloe (Mary Lynn Rajskub) is married and Jack ( Kiefer Sutherland) has had his string of disastrous love affairs, but it was Chloe who saved him from all his enemies, including, in the second-to-the-last hour of the series, himself. And it was Chloe to whom Jack directed his final farewell via drone satellite. “When you first came to CTU,” he said, bloodied but unbowed as ever. “I never thought it was going to be you that was going to cover my back all those years…. Thank you.”