????Coming of age in the mid-2000s, I remember dozens of long drawn out debates around torture and its efficacy. Despite the reams of academia pointing out its practical and ethical flaws, and while the US is arguably doing more torture than ever before, nobody's debating anymore. Torture has become normalized. Why the change? Presenting exhibit A: the TV show 24, which has done more to normalize torture than any other piece of media in the history of America.????