Blaine Mayer Is 24’s Jane Meyer
HOW many hours in Jack bauer’s day? 24 x7 equals… Says Paul Berger in NY:
DID anyone notice the name of the senator grilling Jack Bauer in tonight’s season seven premier of “24?” Surely it is no coincidence that the senator’s name, Blaine Mayer, bore more than a passing resemblance to that of Jane Meyer, who wrote an unsympathetic article about “24″ co-creator Joel Surnow for The New Yorker in February, 2007.
In that article, Meyer calls out the program and Surnow for blind patriotism and for legitimizing torture as a means to an end. In tonight’s show, Senator Mayer judges Jack Bauer similarly harshly. Though not before Jack has time to call the senator “smug” and leave the Capitol to save America from the terrorists once again–using any means necessary, we suspect.
A hunch can be right…
Posted: 13th, January 2009 | In: Celebrities Comment | TrackBack | Permalink
