TV: Series Watching award-winning action series 24's character Jack Bauer reaches saturation-point, as formulas lose lustre

The saturation broadcasting of Kiefer Sutherland as Jack Bauer has made the younger Sutherland less known than his character and his weekly show 24. The episodes of the show however have begun to blur into one another--counterterrorism, CIA and FBI renegades devoted to conspirators even h+er up, enemies bent on the destruction of America by bombs and mass-epidemic virii. The show seems to have worked thru its previous monotonous preoccupation with Arab/Muslim conspirators in the USA. But chases, explosions, illnesses, and narrow escapes continue to litter relentlessly the plot, in what is now becoming a nauseating routine. Tonite's episode, like recent ones, has for its chief enemies (besides internal oldstock American traitors) antgonists are bearing Slavic-sounding names (which echo the entire Cold War). In any case, it's time for this viewer to look for something less repetitious and predictable when I'm up for a breathless action flick on the tube each week. Trouble is, Jack Bauer and 24 remain far superiour to most other plot-driven fare. Ho hum, nothing new under the sun, or in the late n+t TV hours.