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Racing the clock in the ISIS era

With a revamped cast, 24: Legacy is after more than nostalgia
Hawkins, who plays a veteran forced out of hiding, opens up new territory for 24

THE ORIGINAL FOX SERIES 24 WENT INTO production in 2001, months before the news added rocket fuel to the idea of a counter-terrorism operative racing the clock in real time to avert disaster. 24: Legacy has switched out the cast and the central threat, but the reboot (which begins on Feb. 5, following Super Bowl LI) arrives with a boost of its own: the edgy new political world surrounding an impetuous new President. “That’s the success of

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