They've already stated that the second season would be similiar to "The Fugitive" (i.e. them on the run, trying to clear their names).

BTW, the "24" creators have nothing to do with the series. It was created by the guy who did the Vin Diesel movie, "A Man Apart."

I always thought Angela Lansbury was a serial killer. Worse yet -- she was a serial killer who framed other people for her crimes.

I was always hoping they'd end the series with that shocking revelation in a final episode, where she opens her refrigerator door to reveal a not-so-well-presered human head (a la Dahmer), but I guess the audience demographic (older white women who are largely sane) precluded it.

By the way, I always thought Hercule Poirot was a serial killer, too. I get a bad vibe around Belgians, anyway, though.

Two observations:

First, "A Man Apart" was one of the worst movies of the last five years. And I say that as someone who actually *likes* Vin Diesel (not in a Powers Boothe way or anything).

Second, Ace-- that Angela Lansbury thing is gold. I wonder if I went back and actually watched all those old "Murder, She Wrote" episodes, but watched them while always thinking that Lansbury was the murderer in each episode, but rather than discovering the "killer," she was the one covering it all up. . .

Hmmm. I wonder if that just improved watching A&E exponentially.

Cheers,
Dave at Garfield Ridge

P.S. Me? I'm still waiting for "E-Ring". That's gonna be hiii-larious.

There are all kinds of possibilities for other seasons...2nd season: they run. 3rd: One gets re-captured, the other must break him out from the outside...4th: They execute one brother; the other brother commissions Hellboy to help him bring his brother back, but they get stopped by Constantine...errr whatever. Ok, this is kinda hard, but thats why I don't get paid for it.

It's a good show. I like it so much it has a permanent setting in my DVR. Plus, the guy Haywire from this weeks reminds me of one of my friends, so the taunting is priceless...

Dammit, Colossus-- you typed faster than me.

What can I say, Dave? Great minds . . .

You watched Murder She wrote?

I was skeptical of a second season of 24. And of course it just keeps getting worse and worse each season. They have to keep topping the previous season. I always thought they should do a second season that was a different story completely from the first. Just end the story after 24 hours. Next season would be an entirely new plot, just using the same actors. They could focus on writing a decent new story instead of working so hard to make it fit with and build off of the previous seasons.

Sometimes I get so damn tired of the focus on serialized TV. They need to start with a completed story, tell that story over the course of a season and be done with it. Make each episode part of the large plot. Fuck this serialized filler bullshit that turns up week after week, season after season.

Some years back, someone set me up with a blind date who turned out to look like a young Angela Landsbury. I wish someone would have killed me then.

It's a great show, totally digging it. There's no way to work another season out of it though... unless of course; he doesn't break out by season finale time...

It's a lot like OZ just with none of the nudity, which is depressing.

That show "Reunion" has me puzzled... if the season ends at the present day, they have nowhere to go with a second season, except to have an entirely different group of friends.

Also, I thought "24" was much improved this last season over the last two seasons... they got rid of all the stupid little subplots inconsequential to the main plot (except for the one with the boss's daughter killing herself-but that was just show tony and michelle could get back together), dumped his trouble-magnet of a daughter, and had a lot more straight-forward action.

So, Ace is into prison soaps. Color me...not surprised.

P.S. - Ace - any of the main characters resemble George Clooney?

> a blind date who turned out to look like a young Angela Landsbury

Actually, the young Angela Lansbury was hot. A blonde Emma Samms. I think you got ripped off. I think your blind date wasn't a young anything. Are you sure your friend didn't set you up with his mother?

Soooo...you all watched "Murder She Wrote."

It is all becoming clear. You are all old white women.

Now I know why Ace wants his identity to remain a mystery.

Yep, you caught us. We're all actually in a little sewing circle here.

Well, I don't know about Ace-- he might be in another circle right now.

A word on "24"-- I miss Kim Bauer. Who else gets nipply after a cougar attack? She's the best.

If Angela Lansbury was a serial murderer then the head in the refrigerator must have been Tom Bosley's.

Actually, the young Angela Lansbury was hot. A blonde Emma Samms

Lansbury looked like Samms the same way Rue Paul looks like Tyra Banks.

I think Reunion starts over each season with a new cast and a new scenario.
Prisonbreak is pretty good and worthy of the dual DVR. Las Vegas will get the other tuner for the double header.
Survivor debuts tonight and Threshold will have a 2 hour debut on Friday. I live for the new fall lineup, and I was getting so desparate that I even watched Bones and put it on season pass. I am pathetic, but in a harmless way.

Murder She Wrote was no Magnum PI.

24 is a good show because it's one of the few that don't insult the audience's intelligence. It's smart without being hamfistedly manipulative like "ER". It also works because Keifer Sutherland is so accustomed to playing bad guys that he gives Jack Bauer enough menace to make him an interesting and a little anti-heroic.

Ace, you simply MUST rent "The Manchurian Candidate", you will never think of Angela the same way again.
This is one of the greatest movies ever made.
Not the ultra crappy modern remake, the original.

I agree, the original "Manchurian Candidate" is on my top ten list for favorite movies.

Angela Lansbury! At any age...cold as liquid nitrogen and oh, so — tssssssss!!!!111!!!one!!!! — hot!

Angela Lansbury - quite the whack-a-mole. My wife worked in Hollywood for a couple of years and was told that she refused to allow her name to be mentioned on the crews' radios. They had to have a code word to talk about her. She also didn't want the crew to knock on her trailer door (like everybody else) - she had a series of lights in her trailer that you activated her to tell her when she was needed.

Did someone say the young Angela Landsbury was hot? Angela Landsbury? Are you fucking high or something?

As for "The Manchurian Candidate"; It has all the thrills and suspense of your local Jay-Cees Haunted House.

Man, and I thought I needed to get out more. Sheesh!

Pic from 1971

http://www.imdb.com/gallery/hh/0792567/D4584C.JPG

My point exactly! Thanks, Jenny!