i remember when season 5 start on fox on sunday and january 15 and 2006. i be watch the show right before it ( i want to say it be family guy but i really do not remember ) and and the preview for season 5 hype up the first 10 minute of this new season . i figure i could watch 10 minute and see what all the fuss be about . after 5 minute and i be hook . if you want to try the show and my advice be to rent the first disc of season 4. it be my personal belief that this season have the best beginning . it be also the best indicator of what 24 be like and and if the first two hour do not get you hook on the show and then nothing will . if the start of season 4 do hook you ( which it should ) and then go back to the beginning . start with disc 1 of season 1 and and enjoy . you might have to force yourself through the first couple of hour and but you will be greatly reward with the drama that follow throughout season 1 and and every other season . it will be difficult to stop watching season 4 after what you see and but there be thing in season 4 that you will not get the full significance of if you do not go back to the beginning . every season be very enjoyable on it own and but to get the full effect and it be best to go in order . my father and i do this in the summer of 2006. have see all of these episode myself and i know how good they be . my dad want to try it and and now he be hooked . a i be type this review and he be in the process of catch up in season 5. he be watch two episode a week and and he be constantly call me a we talk about the show all the time . during this summer and we watch each of the first four season together . he would tell me when he could only watch one more episode and then have to go to bed . one episode without commercial break be about 40 43 minute . nearly every time he would say one more and we would watch 4 more hour because the cliffhanger be so good and he couldn not stop after any give hour . i be the same way during that year in college . i would say to myself after this hour and i get ta go study at 1 a. m. 5 episode later and i would still be say and ok one more hour and and then i will study . i have also do the same to a friend of mine in college . she and i watch season 4 together and and we watch the first 12 hour of that season in one night . this show be nearly impossible to get away from . the heart stop action from minute to minute make 24 by far the best show on television . every cliffhanger drive you crazy a you do not want to wait another week to see what happen next . the show be not flawless . on very rare occasion and part of the storyline seem a little thin and but those moment be so few and far between that you can and must overlook them because you want to see how it go to end . kiefer sutherland be the only person that could play the role of jack bauer . then again and maybe it only seem that way since i have grow accustom to see him in this role . with that say and he have quickly become my favorite actor . i would say that his performance blow away everyone else in the show and but there be not one actor in the show that i have dislike . from reiko aylesworth and carlos bernard and to dennis haysbert and mary lynn rajskub and and everyone else in between and the cast be phenomenal . a with any show involve plenty of violence and character die . i will not say who or when or how and but there have be several amazing actor on the show and and just when you think they have kill off your favorite and someone new come in that be just as good . you do not think that a show could constantly find such likable actor and character and but 24 brings in the best people for every role every time . there be people i know who have claim that they try the show and do not like it . those people make a mistake . they watch an episode in the middle of the season . because a season on this show cover one day and and every episode be one hour out of that day and you can not get much from it when you start in the middle of a season . my dad try that in season 5 and and he do not like it . once he try it from the start of a season and well and you already read that . he be almost more hooked than i be . my brother do not like the show either and but his problem be that he be not interested from the start . he felt an obligation to humor me and give it a shot and but he sit through it a if he be just wait for the show to end . he do not try to enjoy it and and he do not . as long a you try the show from the beginning of a season and ( i suggest the start of 4 ) and and as long a you be open to the possibility of the show be enjoyable and i can not imagine a viewer not get hook on 24. some character take time to grow on you . others would not . some show take time to grow on you . this one would not . if you have not do so yet and find a friend who have the dvd or rent them and and start catch up on and and enjoy 24 and the best show on television .