The New York Times is reporting that the Fox [melo]drama series, “24” is to become the first ‘carbon neutral’ television series. To offset the environmental impact of all those gratuitous car crashes and gun fights they intend to pay strange little men in India to run wind-farms that will balance the karma, and hence save the planet.
I’m not sure about being carbon neutral, but the show is certainly interest neutral these days. Currently limping through its seventh season, this initially strong concept has lost any trace of the adrenaline-soaked action and breathless vivacity of earlier runs; The plots are mundane and melodramatic, the bad guys are wafer-thin two-dimensional stereotypes and the story’s conclusion is utterly foreseeable weeks before it deigns to occur.
Kiefer Sutherland, like his Father, is an engaging and talented Actor – and deserves far better than this. And so do the viewers. The clueless, overpaid suits who make these decisions probably have rose-tinted visions of their typical fan; all farmhouse sinks and fair-traded sweaters. Do they truly believe such a being exists?
It’s time the clock on this anemic charade was run down to zero and stopped. What’s your opinion on that?
