Racing the clock in the ISIS era
With a revamped cast, 24: Legacy is after more than nostalgia
by DANIEL D’ADDARIO
Dec 21, 2016
3 minutes
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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