Brief Summary of Yesterday

I missed the first 20 minutes due to a social engagement. (Yes, people are more important than TV. Even 24.)

But it is a world where car and bus bombings happen all of the time, here in the US. Supposedly, 2 years have passed since Jack was taken prisoner by the Chinese...I thought last season was now -- it seemed to mirror our then current political environment: imperial powers in the White House, fear of "other" of all forms.

Now, the supposed good guys are in power, and the dead president's 28 year old brother is now president. (He's actually as cute as some of the terrorists, though.)

Yet things are so chaotic here in the US that the administration is willing to step all over the Constitution.

(Which, oh yeah, is the whole basis of 24..."medical interrogations" and all.)

Jack comes out of Chinese prison looking like Grizzly Adams on a seriously too high dosage of anti-psychotic drugs, and is somehow shaven and then traded to the bad guys for information about another bad guy.

The bad guys beat and torture Jack, and he flatlines. But before he dies, the bad guy confesses that the other bad guy isn't really a bad guy: he's on the side of right! And the first bad guy is trying to stop the former bad guy.

You follow?

Jack somehow comes back from the dead, rips out the throat of one of the guards with his teeth (eew) and gets a clean set of clothes and becomes all perky.

He finds the not bad guy, rescues him, and now they are doing something to save the world.

There was other drama, I didn't pick up on all of it, you don't really have to...Chloe and her dreamy husband almost screw things up by trying to use their surfeit of technology skills to rescue Jack...the President's sister somehow runs an organization that is being searched by the government.

Is she unknowingly fronting for terrorists?

Because, as you know, other than Chloe, women on 24 are either stupid or evil.