24: Legacy Season 1 Review - 4 Ups & 6 Downs

2. The Solid Supporting Cast

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Say what you will about the narrative, but at least Legacy gathered an impressive supporting cast of players.

The easy stand-outs here are Miranda Otto as former CTU head Rebecca Ingram, a strong woman with impressive ambiguity and depth, Jimmy Smits as her very David Palmer-like husband, Senator John Donovan, and Dan Bucatinsky as CTU analyst Andy Shalowitz, who starts off a goofball but quickly becomes one of the show's most likeable characters.

The performances are uniformly solid even when the material is straining interest and/or credibility, so if it does get renewed for another go-around, at least there's a firm foundation of talent to work from.

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