(Beware: « 24 » spoiler ahead. But it’s not like the plot makes that much sense anyway…)<\/p>\n
« I love you. I didn’t realize how much until I thought I lost you! » Michelle tells Tony, post-body-slam. Doesn’t it seem like most of the dialogue of « 24 » could easily be generated by a computer program? Besides, I thought that, like most women, Michelle didn’t realize how much she loved Tony until he put down the can of beer and got off the couch. […]<\/p>\n
Yes, it’s all a little bit foolish, and it’s basically impossible to make all that suspense pay off in the end. But then, the joy of « 24 » is in the suspense, and expecting it to lead to a deeply satisfying conclusion is like expecting « The Love Boat » to burst into flames and sink.<\/p>\n
If « The Love Boat’ ever does burst into flames, though, you can be sure that it will at least produce a great, big, thundering bang when it does. »<\/p>\n
Salon’s hilarious review<\/a> of 24’s season finale by Heather Havrilesky.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" (Beware: « 24 » spoiler ahead. But it’s not like the plot makes that much sense anyway…) « I love you. I didn’t realize how much until I thought I lost you! » Michelle tells Tony, post-body-slam. Doesn’t it seem like most of the dialogue of « 24 » could easily be generated by a… Continue reading It went pfffft !<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=929"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/929\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=929"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=929"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.martinepage.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=929"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}