This heart-stopping thriller has got me hooked halfway through the season last year. Well, Jack Bauer rose from the dead and is back in full on action baby! Monday nights I am so into him...

Does anybody else watch Jack?

CSI Miami follows but it has sort of lost steam for me.

One other show I'm late in picking up but is so darn "geeky" but thrilling is Numbers.

I loved that show for the first couple or three seasons, and then started to lose a little steam. But I'm still a big fan, no doubt. A new cliffhanger every week! The end of every episode, when the scene ends and cuts over to the ticking clock (03:59:57... 03:59:58... 03:59:59... black screen) always finds me in wide-eyed suspense and amazement, muttering under my breath, "hoooo, jesus, fcuk me running!".

I just get cnbc-e, so I have to follow it about a year or so late. What is it now, just starting the fourth season in the US, is it? Maybe 5th? I can't remember. Man, if there's anyone here in Istanbul who can point me in the right direction so I don't have to wait a year for it, I would consider naming my first born child after you (my "cable" internet connection, in real life, is about as fast as dial-up, so fat downloads are kind of tough).

Matt

I borrowed the 2nd and 3rd season on DVD. Just finished the 3rd season last weekend. great stuff.

Yeah, whenever a new season comes out at the local illegal video store, I buy it up greedily like a drug addict, run home, turn off the phone, and watch an entire season in two days (if I could squeeze all 24 episodes into a single day, I would, but I'm not a kid anymore).

Matt

I love that show!

Cnbc-e is still working out ways to bring the fourth season to Turkey. Apparently because the terrorists are Turkish that may be a difficult if not impossible thing to do.

I'm glad to know there are other avid fans. I think it's on te 5th season but I could be wrong...In that case, I won't divulge details.

OMG! Tonight's episode was so gripping! As usual, I am held in suspense anticipating the next installment...I have to do some yoga now to relax before bedtime.

Any show that disses a country without even having the proper Turkish names for the characters that portray the evil Turkish terrorists needs to be ignored.

West Wing suffered from the same problem but up until that point it was doing
fine. Unlike the popular opinion, their mud flinging occured after Aaron Sorkin the Armenian creator of the show left. I like the 7th season though. Vinick started off noble he is slowly loosing his morale compass though. I wonder if liberals are not interested in depicting an objective series of events where republicans does not necessarily have to be shady. Mind you I don't care much about what the republicans are preaching.

If you want accurate, knowledgeable portrayals of a complex world, watch National Geographic or something. If you want action, guns, and cliffhangers, then truth, accuracy, and understanding are going to be among the first casualities, in any production by any culture. Ignore those productions on that basis, and you stand to spend a great deal of your life in stunningly accurate but excruciatingly boring correctness.

Matt

Aaron Sorkin is not Armenian, he is Jewish.
There is a throwaway line to "a grandmother defending herself against Turkish terrorists" in the pilot.
During its first four seasons, the West Wing was the best television show in the history of the medium, ever.
His next show, Studio 60 from the Sunset Strip, is going to kick some serious ass and I can't wait.



Eh? [Holden in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]Fictional Characters! Fictional Characters![/Holden in Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back]

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Aaron Sorkin is not an Armenian

I am watching it since I like Keifer Sutherland. I picked it up late last season and didn't even see the first 2 (or is it 3?) seasons. The rest for me is "fiction" as most US TV series' are. I haven't delved deeper into who even created it but I'd rather watch in on Monday evenings that American football.

BTW, I also watch Frontline for what really happens in some parts of the world. That was some dose of reality that exists in Turkey which I never knew of before. Two weeks ago, Turkey factored in the global sex trade feature. It was heartbreaking to see women who are sold to people in Turkey where they are held captive, live in cramped quarters and being forced to work in the worst condtions. They are basically kidnapped in their hometowns and sold to people who run illegal brothels in Istanbul and Antalya. Frontline featured a woman from the Ukraine and one from Moldova. Turkish police in Antalya knows about the trade and use these poor women on occasion. What is the worst part? The fraffickers wehen caught just get an slap on the wrist and will do it again. One woman was returned due to the investigative reporter who helped a man look for his kidnapped pregnant wife.

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline ... stock.html

What needs to be done page: global human trafficking

http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/slaves/

Thank you Matt!! Jeez, some of you guys take your film and tv way too seriously Its supposed to be entertainment, duh!!

Is there any other way? :p