Rabbit Hole

Comments. Stream It Or Skip It: 'Rabbit Hole' On Paramount+, Where Kiefer Sutherland Is A Corporate Espionage Expert Framed For Multiple Murders.

A perusal of the cast list shows us that we haven’t seen the last of Valence, Homm or Hailey. We get that Weir is paranoid; it’s the nature of his job. It shows that Weir might be in on the frame-up, or at least a portion of it. The idea is that he wants to show Edward Homm (Rob Yang), a Treasury department investigator handing information to a CEO of a company that competes with Valence’s client. The viewing experience is a lot better if it’s the latter because, boy, some of what we saw in the first episode were definitely head scratchers. But if you just want to see Sutherland run around and get in an out of trouble like Jack Bauer used to, then this show should satisfy that desire. The idea is that, to make the investigation go away, there has to be a perception that the Treasury department investigator is in cahoots with the competitor, even though that’s not true. [Paramount+](http://paramountplus.qflm.net/gbPZBO) brings Sutherland back to the genre in a way viewers haven’t seen since the last iteration of 24 that he starred in ended. Then he goes to Valance, thinking he was set up, and Valance does something that completely throws Weir for a loop. She wants to know why there was a big stock sell-off that one of his clients took advantage of the night before. He meets a woman named Hailey (Meta Golding), who is doing business in New York for a non-profit; they hit it off and sleep together. Opening Shot: A closeup of a hand, its thumb furiously tapping on the wood it’s resting on.

Rabbit Hole stars Charles Dance and Meta Golding share thoughts on their characters and Kiefer Sutherland's unique predicament in their new series.

Charles, there is a younger you in the series. That's what I liked, and what I thought was a little different about the script. We're trying to save the world, but [also] trying to get to know each other. But as you say, almost every aspect of Ben is a spoiler, so we can't really talk about it. Screen Rant: Charles, Your entire character is a spoiler, but this won't be out until the first two episodes are. But before his survival instinct goes into overdrive, viewers meet him as a specialist in corporate espionage, manipulating stocks and terrorizing the wealthy for his own company's gain.

Kiefer Sutherland wanted to play corporate espionage operative John Weir in "Rabbit Hole" because the character is plunged from a position of great power to ...

The more informed we are, the better off we are and I'm probably going to have to get a computer now that I said that." All of a sudden, I was the guy who liked doing 24 episodes a year. "In the right hands, technology can be really, really dangerous as well as it can be really helpful and really good. I was just happy to have a job and then just incredibly happy that it lasted a decade and I could watch my daughters grow up," he said. "I had no idea what I was doing. "There was just this shift of where the work was. That's what I think is the really scary part," he said. He also has been recording country music and touring with The Kiefer Sutherland Band in recent years. I don't struggle with it the way I've watched my children and grandchildren struggle with it." I've got a little library card and I can get through my day the way I always have. It's just something that I've been aware of in my career that those are great opportunities." I write in cursive," he added.

Paramount+ invites you to fall down a "Rabbit Hole" with Kiefer Sutherland. Will you follow TV's erstwhile Jack Bauer on this twisty journey?

John slips away/evades a mounted cop, only to later arrive outside his loft building just in time to see the top floors explode in a ball of fire, with at least two of his associates inside. Valence asks John to do the thing he does, on a job that requires an extra level of discretion, before handing him an envelope with the details.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rabbit-hole-recap-1x01-1.jpg) And there in the house’s basement, we see Treasury Department investigator Homm very much alive but bound to a chair. One of John’s associates, posing as a dog walker, uses her herd of pups to nudge the CEO closer to Homm, while another discreetly drops an envelope at Homm’s feet. Then, as John grabs a cab, he grows convinced that he is being followed — a suspicion he shares with Agent Jo Madi of the FBI’s Financial Crimes Unit, an apparent longtime adversary who is waiting for him outside his destination. He barks some orders into his phone and storms off.](https://tvline.com/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/rabbit-hole-1x01-1.jpg)

Rabbit Hole creators and directors Glen Ficarra and John Requa break down the two premiere episodes and that twist that sent John Weir (Kiefer Sutherland) ...

And it was just that they stumbled into it and they were completely like, "Look at what we did!" What if there was someone who actually knew what they were doing and had evil purposes that was doing this." But then as the story goes along, you realize he realizes that there's a bigger plot at play and that it could potentially be incredibly dangerous for the country and for the world. Glenn Ficarra: Seeing how Cambridge Analytica exploited this Facebook data to really discover things about people and manipulate them for relatively little money, it just makes you shudder at the thought of what could be done if somebody with the wrong intentions wanted to do something. Or reveal that the entire first episode was not what it seemed, with just one shot, with one toss of the apple, you know, completely upend the audience's expectation of what they had just seen and what's going to happen going forward. And even though they know he is a man capable of violence and a man capable of intensity. Early in his career, Kiefer played a lot of villainous or adversarial roles, then he's played his share of heroes: Jack Bauer had some decent shades of gray in him, but here you get to really play with the fact that here Weir's an unreliable narrator. And then we just kind of took that seed and ran with it. And what a great chance for you to have Kiefer Sutherland be being that guy, because they know immediately like, "Oh, we're down for something fun and we're going to go, we'd love to go do it with him," you know. You thought about writing something specifically for Kiefer before you even had conceived the concept, is that right? Tell me about the twists and turns that got you guys excited as you were baking them into the story. So it was a challenge, but it was also kind of a thrill because we didn't want it to ever be a predictive sort of formulaic, episodic show.

The one-time Jack Bauer is having the time of his life alongside Charles Dance in this high-tension conspiracy drama – and then it turns on a dime and goes ...

But this is the sort of thing that can easily be ironed out. Maybe he can tell me WHAT THE FUCK IS GOING ON!!!” at what must presumably be a particularly disconcerted priest – but this is the point where the loopiness ramps up beyond all comprehension. And there’s a version of Rabbit Hole where this is all that happens. If there is one criticism of Rabbit Hole, it’s that it doesn’t seem to know what it wants to be. Weir is essentially a paranoid spy who knows that someone is on to him, and he spends much of the episode shooting concerned glances into his rearview mirror. Is this a coded way of saying that I wish 24 was still on TV?

Kiefer Sutherland is back in the political thriller genre with Rabbit Hole, an action-packed new series unfolding on Paramount Plus now.

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Kiefer Sutherland, best known for TV's '24' and 'Designated Survivor,' talks about his country-music career and new paranoid thriller "Rabbit Hole."

And "West Wing" is really hard to write, and Aaron Sorkin's Aaron Sorkin, and that is not a reflection on the creator of (my) show. The idea, the premise of "24" is the star, and if you've got 16 iterations of "Star Trek," how can you not have two iterations of "24"? It's going to require a monumental effort to grind out the 24 episodes required for a season. What did you think of the way that whole series played out on ABC and I really loved that character, but I thought it was going to be much more like a "West Wing"-type show. I love writing the songs and I love playing them, and it's no more than that. And then I put together a band, and And we recorded a few songs and I loved the way they sounded. So it's a question of pain management and what are you up for? He has played a fictional president in "Designated Survivor" and a real one – FDR – in last year's Showtime "The First Lady." What I didn't like with the kid, and it never happened with Jack Bauer, was waiting to get hit from behind. Is this a conspiracy against him, or am I working this conspiracy to draw other people out?