24 Bauer Party People

Jack faces his greatest foe yet: criticisms of US Foreign Policy. Is this show secretly good now?

In which:

-frying pan immunity comes back to haunt us

-an MI6 agent kills Diana

-Kim grows as a killer

-and yet more dads!

Fill your lungs with virus, become the Joker, and prepare to melt! We meet the villain, and he's... Jack Whitehall?

In which:

-a hotel has a handy Hotel Gun

-a whole new formulation of dad

-and we discuss 24: The DVD Board Game!

Hear us find our second wind in real time as we ask: whose baby is this, and will Kim orphan it?

In which:

-President Wifeguy: The Return

-Sam talks a lot about Tango & Cash

-and a familiar smokeshow reappears!

Bad news: The plot sucks. Good news: now we have an entirely different plot, and maybe this one won't!

In which:

-everyone knows Andy the torturer

-thank christ, Kim's in peril

-and CTU Is Fake goes all the way to the top

Already the quagmire pulls us in, as a sweatier-than-ever Bauer tangles with some unfortunately named Hispanic chaps.

In which:

- Kim Was Not The Impostor

- a new type of dad just dropped

- and we fire the podcast gun

Three blissful months without 24 come to a screeching halt as we settle in for another day at the coalface.

In Which:

- we play "What the fuck is going on?"

- we discuss potential future pod ideas

- and we rename a host

A two-hour S2 finale. 24 thought it could destroy us. It didn't know we could destroy us first. You knew what you were getting into by listening.

In which:

- we mix drinks

- Kim makes us cry laughing

- and we make our final awards judgements

A shorter and more subdued episode as we envy Jack sleeping the sleep of the dead. In Which:

- the hogs come out to play

- Jack Bauer vibrates

- and Jack Bauer gets vibrated to actual death

The No Good Day Award hits lethal fever pitch as the wisdom of doing this one day after season 1 starts to fray. In Which:

- Palmer takes a Zoom call

- a sheep dip filled with spaff

- and Kim escapes Vault 101

This was the best of times. This was also very much the worst of times. It's downhill from here. IN WHICH:

- Islam is handled sensitively

- the torture veers from fun to upsetting

- cougars (figurative)

- and cougars (literal)