There’s a terrific article in today’s Salon about the terrific season of “24” which ended last night. Major spoiler warnings to those who haven’t seen it — but would still like to, say on DVD:
The thrill and the awfulness of this second season of “24” has been in the way that it seemed to be one of the only outposts in the media to take the full measure of the last five years of American political life and tell us, no, you weren’t dreaming, things really have been as bad as you thought. The show was an extended bad dream that promised — and provided — no relief. Week by week, it began to seem an ever more accurate mirror of the real world.
There’s also an article about last night’s series finale of “Buffy the Vampire Slayer”, but I’m holding off on that until I finally get sent those eight final episodes by the friend who’s been taping them for me these past two years.