Review of Rabbit Hole: Kiefer Sutherlands entertaining new thriller is similar to 24. but much more crazy

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For the sake of full disclosure I am one of Sutherlands devoted followers who would watch everything he produce

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so long as he mutters to himself while feeling a little harried a little jaded and like the world literally depends on it.

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Is this a veiled allusion to my desire for 24 to remain on television? Of course. Sure it is.

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And there is a variation of Rabbit Hole in which nothing else occurs.

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The only person trying to avert calamity is Kiefer Sutherland who has a granite-jawed face and lurches from crisis to crisis.

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The first episode definitely gets quite close to that. Weir who believes that someone is spying on him is essentially a paranoid spy.

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He spends a significant portion of the show casting worried looks in his rearview mirror.

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As it progresses you may find yourself settling in just as you would with any classic network drama featuring a tough but conflicted protagonist.

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Unfortunately Rabbit Hole then abruptly changes course and spirals into full madness. Ill do my best to avoid giving anything away.

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This is primarily because unlike 24 when all the idiotic things occurred because that show ate up concepts like a threshing machine Rabbit Hole appears to be doing all of this just for fun.

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In spite of everything that has happened there is an obvious brightness here. Sutherlands Weir isnt an entirely heroic figure.

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He is too confused and upset for that. He quarrels. He makes a joke. He is defeated in clashes with young skateboarders.

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And when has anyone ever been able to claim that except from the footage of him throwing himself into a Christmas tree?

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Rabbit Hole has only one drawback: it doesnt appear to know what it wants to be.

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Both a full-bore action thriller and a loosey-goosey screwball comedy are present at certain points.

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