Rabbit Hole: Harebrained or Good Luck?

Bit of both?

I miss Jack Bauer.

In the weeks and months after 9/11, Bauer was the man America turned to when we needed reassurance that everything was alright. Yes, the terrorists were out there, but they were no match for a short, intense dude with a smooth-but-raspy voice who would stop at nothing to protect his country.

Need somebody to cut off a pedophile’s head with a hacksaw in the conference room? Bauer.

LA just got nuked? Bauer.

The new president of the United States makes Nixon look like Lincoln? Get me Jack Bauer!

That hero was so focused on fighting terror in all its forms that he didn’t even need to eat, sleep, or excrete waste. He just kept saving the world again and again, one day at a time.

Then Bauer went away, and Kiefer Sutherland tried playing POTUS himself for a while. But it was pretty boring. Then he had a show on Quibi, which I keep forgetting was actually a thing for a few months in 2020.

Now Kiefer’s back, and he’s Bauering $#!+ up again.

Sorta?