24 is great. Try watching it a few weeks.
It was the first to go back to the old time serial movies. Many will remember the Saturday movie serial with the cliff-hanger leaving you wondering what will happen until the next Saturday. Wonderful fun.
It is also well done, moves fast, has great technology, and mainly the good guys go after the threat and Jack will fight the great battle for us. It is clean, no bad language - just a quality show that leaves you glued to the set for that hour.
In fact, the best rental movies I ever got were a prior season 24 series of tapes. So great to watch straight through four episodes and then making the trip to get the next four for the next night. This is the best way to watch it - but who can wait a whole year for the season?
24 is the fastest hour of TV watching.
"It is clean, no bad language - just a quality show that leaves you glued to the set for that hour. "
This is probably the clincher. No illicit affairs, explicit language to deal with, although some entanglements lead to consequences. Just good old-fashioned action.
I like 24 but it would be far more successful if it was '14.' I have checked out prior seasons and enjoy it, but roughly 1/2way into each season the storyline take an unexpected turn and the viewer has to recommit to the show. I have never recommitted - the show consistently loses me just after the 1/2-way point.