Episode Report Card Grade It Now! YOU GRADE IT "Penny is not a diva, but Sherry is"
By Gustave | Season 2 | Episode 25 | Aired on 07.16.2003
Yeah, and it's a little unclear what happens to her. It took me two viewings to realize that she'd been led away in handcuffs. [laughs] It was the scene right before that. And can you tell me about that scene? You know what? Here's the thing about being on 24: Penny doesn't lie. But Sherry does. I can't lie but I can't tell you the whole truth. [laughs] There are some truths that even now I'm not certain of. We become masters of talking in circles. My daughter told me that yesterday. We were at an event yesterday. People were asking me about next season and she said to me, "Ma, you really know how to answer questions!" And I'm trying to think, what is she talking about? And then I think, oh I know what she's talking about. I've learned to master talking in circles and trying to sound quite profound while doing it. We keep topping and topping and there's so much more to top. Even the final episode was not our very best episode in my eyes. You know, it was wrapping up things and sometimes you do it a bit too quickly. We had twenty-four hours to do that…nine months to do that [laughs]. 24 is fast-moving but it was really moving fast for me: that final episode. There was so much to get in. It should have been a two-hour show, as far as I'm concerned. But I enjoyed it. Sherry had to do something. Her husband has kicked her out. She was a woman scorned. And the most fearful thing in this world is a woman scorned. We can do anything. We can stop the population of the world. All we have to do is close our legs and not have babies. [laughs] So Sherry had to do something and I was very happy that they did give me something to do. And even still, I challenge them to show what Penny can really do with Sherry. And there's so much more. I don't even believe we've begun to tap that reservoir of things that can come out of her. It's funny you should say "biblical," because I was thinking of Greek mythology. When you say, "I swear on the lives of my children…" Medea. Exactly. I was wondering if that was foreshadowing of something nasty happening to the kids. The writers plant seeds and you're always guessing what kind of fruit you're going to see. Sometimes you go the other way. And that's what's great about 24. Although you have to have some consistency so that you keep following and watching, you're familiar with certain people and you're familiar with certain behavior. You grow to really like it or love to hate it.