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Aristus

(66,327 posts)
1. Not me. I checked out of that stupid series halfway through the first season.
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 03:22 PM
Feb 2014

Just a lot of "Be afraid! Be very afraid! Terrorists everywhere! Only torture can protect us!"

The producer is an admitted pro-war, pro-torture shithead. I'm not doing anything that will generate revenue for him.

Bucky

(53,998 posts)
2. I liked the first season - lots of plot twists & whiplash, till about Hour 18
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 03:35 PM
Feb 2014

Then it started getting silly with the bad guys being seemingly everywhere and supercompetant at everything and always showing up by surprise.... up until Kiefer showed up and killed them 3 at a time. It just got to be overkill. Maybe it got better, but for me, it wasn't the political agenda so much as the implausible worldview and the fact that every single stranger who ever showed up in the story would, soon enough, turn into a bad guy mole.

The show made excitement boring.

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Wounded Bear

(58,648 posts)
9. Never saw a single episode...
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 04:44 PM
Feb 2014

Always seemed like shameless exploitation of 9/11 to me.

I'll be sitting it out again.

aint_no_life_nowhere

(21,925 posts)
11. I had no idea what you were posting about
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 05:41 PM
Feb 2014

I've never even heard of that show. I thought maybe you were referring to last season's return of future Hall Of Famer Charles Woodson, No. 24 to the Raiders.


CBGLuthier

(12,723 posts)
12. Once I figured out the show had an agenda and it was unpleasant I tuned out.
Tue Feb 4, 2014, 05:42 PM
Feb 2014

I think the show was designed to make us accept torture as just another part of law enforcement. Disgusting fucking show.

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