Ever since the original premiere of Fox's 24 was delayed because of the uncomfortable confluence of the tragic events of 9/11 and the explosion of a plane in the first episode, it has seemed almost inevitable that eventually we'd get a version of 24 in which Jack Bauer's beloved CTU was replaced by the NTSB or some comparably fictionalized transportation investigation bureau.
Nineteen years later, cut to Peacock's six-part thriller Departure, a British-Canadian co-production between Global and Universal TV.
I don't remember the last show to so blatantly attempt to absorb that fast-moving 24 DNA, while at the same time failing to correct so many of the things that often made 24 so frustrating.
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