Very good first four hours, I've gotta say. They're setting up the season well, they're bringing in some intriguing plotlines that they haven't done before, and I really like how they're using Washington, D.C. (though I doubt they actually did much filming there.)
Three caveats- last year's disastrous season had a pretty good first four hours too, and the "shock" of Tony still being alive was sort of undone since I've known about it since 2007, and now it's 2009.
And finally, reading "The Dark Side" and hearing specifics about all the loathsome shit our government actually did, it's sort of hard to root for government agents doing the same thing on the show. I mean, not even Dick Cheney, John Yoo or David Addington would sign off on pulling someone's life support out of the wall as they lay dying in a hospital bed.
Posted by Stephen Silver at January 13, 2009 07:40 PM