The mountain lion that menaced Kim Bauer in the first season of Fox’s 24 was a feature, not a bug.
That ferocious feline, which probably still haunts Elisha Cuthbert’s dreams, was a proof of concept for how that boundary-breaking series could to extend its high-wire premise across 24 hours per season: Not everything could be an A-story or a B-story, but in Jack Bauer’s world, even the filler was fraught with tension.
The Day of the Jackal
The Bottom Line A solid start and a strong finish bookend six hours of filler.
Airdate: Thursday, Nov. 14 (Peacock)
Cast: Eddie Redmayne, Lashana Lynch, Úrsula Corberó, Charles Dance, Richard Dormer, Chukwudi Iwuji, Lia Williams, Khalid Abdalla, Eleanor Matsuura, Jonjo O’Neill, Sule Rimi
Creator: Ronan Bennett
Or at least it theoretically was. As even the most
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