It’s amazing how Fox’s 24 has moved from being topical in a vague but fantastic way at the season’s beginning (when NYT’s Caryn James noted how the far-fetched plots undercut the show’s reality effect) to acting as a creepily parallel to the Iraq war and in particular to this week’s speculation (discussed in The Daily Treatise) that the neocons in power are purposefully encouraging a broader war. So much so, in fact, that the show would be open to charges of opportunist lefty propaganda if it hadn’t been written and shot months ago. And if its politics weren’t so hedged to begin with.
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