2006 to 2008. Jericho. Numerous cities in the US are hit with a nuclear attack and the residents of a small town – convienently named Jericho – are left isolated and trying to survive. How these bunch of idiots managed to hang on for 23 episodes is anyone’s guess.
2 Seasons, 23 Episodes.
Fabulous show. I wish it had not ended so soon. I hope it lives on as a movie.
Check that they had 29 episodes, and it was a good show. You my friend must be the idiot…
Unnamed one: I did not say that I thought YOU were an idiot for liking the show – I offered MY opinion about the show. Comments are open, which gives you a chance to offer yours, but there’s no need to get personal.
I watched this show and the plot holes were enormous: it’s also obvious that the script writers had no clue; it only had two seasons because of a ‘fan’ write-in campaign, and the continued poor ratings made it obvious that the network had been right all along.
The whole premise is flawed to begin with: you can’t set off that many nukes without screwing with everything – water, air, food, crops – everything. No amount of hand-waving will change that.
I don’t who wrote that ridiculous comment however we are all allowed an opinion. Obviously you didn’t watch enough to catch the “spirit” of what JERICHO is all about. Try it again……
Semper Fi
Well, Number 1 – I’ve got to change the color choices for comments and will be doing so shortly. For the uneducated, use your cursor to highlight an area that looks blank and you’ll be able to read what’s actually there…
Lee – you’re absolutely correct that everyone is entitled to an opinion. That’s why I’ve left comments here open – and why I rarely moderate (and then only lightly). With civility, I can tolerate just about anyone’s (ill-considered and incorrect) opinion, knowing as I do that my view is the correct one (at least here on my blog).
I don’t have enough time in the day to watch programs that are sub-par at best: the acting was, for the most part, second-rate. The situations overly contrived (striving for that mysterious and always unanswered X-Files backstory) and, as I said earlier, the entire premise is way over the line of believability. If it had taken place in some remote Alaskan mining town – maybe.
It seems to be a pattern with such shows that the developers conceive of an SFnal backdrop while pushing the ‘cheap to produce’: about the only such show I can remember from recent history that actually succeeded was Firefly (and that did so based completely on the writing and characterization). For the rest, its obvious to me that the ‘mystery’ or fantasy or SF elements are just a thin veil, targeted at a specific market, while the real ’story’ is little more than a soap opera.
“Watch it again” he says. Dood!?! Have you seen how many movies there are on here already? And I’m not just reviewing this stuff – I’m always looking for more!
As I said in the administrivia post, I’m cleaning some things up (almost done with new links for the movies) and will then be adding a ratings feature. Please come back when that’s set up and give props to a show that you obviously like.
Hey Admn. you look to be a twin of a dude I ride with, anyway I respect your opinion of Jericho after all are there really mountains in Kansas? However any show can be picked apart if ya want and here at Jericho we are a passionate bunch, are you aware of all our efforts to bring back our beloved show or all the charity work and donations we have done for various organizations? We take comments personal about Jericho but I gotta tell ya these rangers are the finest group of folks I’ve ever had to have had the pleasure of knowing, thanks for helping keep the fight alive and do us a favor, search a little harder and see if ya come up with something nice to say about the show after all it did win an award.
Ok beebull – here you go – nice stuff (kinda) about Jericho:
the fans of this show have bumped traffic to this site by a good margin – thank you all very much – and please come back often!
Look – I’m picky, pedantic and (often) pissed off at what I view as disrespect to the GENRE of science fiction.
It bothers me no end when I see a scene in which a 90 pound girl has supposedly been hauling 125 pound bags of rice (or was it salt?) around – without breaking a sweat or complaining (not to mention that the rations would have been just as safe where they were at originally).
And yes, you’re right, it is possible to pick anything apart. I’m sure I’d be just as miffed if you-all picked apart my favorite tv show/movie/novel/whatever.
(Of course, NO television SF show has ever really lived up to my standards – all of it firmly residing on the off-side of Sturgeon’s Law. Rating one of these shows as ‘good’ is relative)
I didn’t pick the name ‘crotchety old fan’ for nothing.
Yes, I’m aware of the effort to bring the show back. Does it have to be on a network? Because I think that the producers/owners might be amenable to a fan-funded on-line production. That would free the show from having to be concerned with a network’s sensibilities/budget and would give the fans a LOT more involvement and influence.
And remember what I said: ANY SF is better than NO SF.
Mr. Crochetty our latest venture was in LA where fans from all over the states and several out of country gathered for a fund raising event we called Welcome Home to Jericho, it was for an organization called Operation Homefront, these folks help the families of our deployed soldiers. We raised a little over 5k which may not sound much but these are tough times we have sent thousands of Jericho dvd’s over seas to the troops for there enjoyment, a truck load of peanut butter and other food to the Kansas food bank, thousands of dollars to Greenville, Kansas when they were destroyed by a f5 tornado, and numerous other charities benefited from ”Jericho” rangers, so you see how we feel about our show.
Have you ever heard of a fandom who does so much not to just get our show back but to help others in need? Jeicho in my eyes does not even belong in the sci fi category, it belongs in drama, jmo. Nielson claims 6.5 million viewership 2nd. season which is not bad when your going up against American Idol, CBS promoted very little and seemed to have a mind set of instant success or trash it, furthermore the Jericho board on CBS was huge with a lot of history on it, they said we were going to get plenty of notice if they ever decided to take it down, THEY LIED and a wealth of info and pictures were lost forever, your right if Jericho can find it’s way back let us hope it’s not on network tv because CBS sucks.
It bothers me no end when I see a scene in which a 90 pound girl has supposedly been hauling 125 pound bags of rice (or was it salt?) around – without breaking a sweat or complaining (not to mention that the rations would have been just as safe where they were at originally
Lol, they were 50lb. bags and yes it was salt, and these Jericho girls are country born an raised, so there as tough as the guy’s. Complaining about work ain’t what country folks do, they just do it. Plus it was winter in Kansas, very cold I might add.
ok – but my point was that the idiot could have set up shop where the bags were originally…
but anyways. Yes, actually, most of SF fandom is very well organized and very volunteer oriented (not commercial fandom but TRU fandom). In fact, I just received an email the other day from folks who are organizing a book donation program for an armed forces base library. Judging from the response, that is going to be one well stocked library!
Actually the idiot, his name was ”Dale” only took the salt away from origanal location to try and deal at ”BlackJack” fairgrounds for a part needed for a windmill to produce electric.You my uneducated one on the story of Jericho are becoming very boring with your ignorance of the basic story line, so this may be a fond farewell and enjoy thy self righteous belief on intelligence.
Thanks for putting Jericho up on your site. Awesome show with a very passionate fan base. And yes were still fighting for more Jericho.
Your calling the fans of this show idiots is uncalled for. Just because one doesn’t like a show doesn’t mean that one needs to degrade the fans of it. Argue plot points but name calling is juvenile. I loved the show and miss it. It made you think about the what ifs. Your nitpicking about plot points that you didn’t even get correct shows you never really watched the show. How many episodes did you watch? Since scientist rarely write shows I am sure there is not a show out there that is completely scientifically correct. Most good sci-fi calls for the viewer to suspend belief and live in the what if.
Hi Admin,
I was compelled to stop by and read your blog…mainly because, I, too am a fan of Jericho. Interesting comments. IMHO any of the post-apocalyptic shows or books have had both their stronger and weaker points. Alas Babylon, while strong on the details, never really had to reach past the tiny Florida community in which it was centered. ‘The Day After” was strong on visual effects and yet the story arc never passed several months post attack. It never dealt with the fact that diabetics wouldn’t have survived past the first month and so forth. Each of them had their intended purposes and at least one of them became a classic.
Jericho’s strength lay in something not necessarily highlighted to my knowledge in Sci-fi shows; the development of the larger conspiratorial issues….well, Firefly excluded. One strength that Jericho shared with many successful older Sci-Fi shows, was the growth of the characters over time in the face of adversity …individually and as a community. Unfortunately, Jericho had one and a half seasons (and severe budget issues for Season 2) to develop what, for instance, the Star Trek shows had years to work on.
Agreed, the science and attention to detail could have been better. I know, who drinks iodine? But, what Jericho may have lacked in that department, was made up by the eerie resemblance of what could happen any day in any given nation. The environmental toll would, admittedly, be huge and was unaccounted for but, then, if one were to notice, Jericho Kansas was not in the fallout zone nor was Cheyenne. That is why they were chosen by ‘the powers that be’. The fact that people would have to pull together and try to figure out who’s the good guy and who’s the bad guy in the confusion of any similar situation remains to me, at least, pretty compelling.
Perhaps, the reason why another fan asked you to re-watch Jericho might be that, in a quick fly-by, some of the bigger flaws stand out but the greater parts might be lost. When I look at some of my old sci-fi favorites, frankly, I wonder why I stuck with them…but they improved with time…either that or I kept hoping they would, so I kept watching and every once in a while I would be rewarded. As Jericho got going…at least everyone around me felt fairly rewarded. By mid season, if not distracted by the details of hills in Jericho and 50 pound bags of salt being carried by small people (which were all discussed thoroughly on the fan boards as well), most if not all of the people I shared the show with, were anxious to keep going. Must have happened for others as well. When CBS put the episodes on youtube last October, within a month the views hit over a million (I know Susan Boyle hit that in a day…I know…I know) even with counter difficulties that persist to this day.
So, while Jericho may not have been your proverbial cup of tea first time round…and I won’t go the ‘he said, she said’ route…it might be worth another watch….this time more slowly. Look for the nuts on the way by.
Beebull, YOU my fanatical Jericho friend, are starting to sound like those Star Trek fiends who get bent out of shape if when they see a Trek costume that has one stitch too many on their Star Fleet emblem.
Lighten up. Obviously I am not as steeped in the minutae of the show as you are (how many times have you seen each episode?) and obviously I can’t be bothered. I’ll read a bad book all the way through and I’ll watch a bad show all the way through – but I’ll not waste more time going back. There were plenty of other examples of unbelievable actions like – oh, I don’t know – the car trip visit to the other town that surrounded the car with guards who never saw the hidden pistol and never searched the car – that fuel my claims of bad writing – but as you can see, there are hundreds of different properties on the site. I’m sorry if my ’snap judgement’ about your fave wasn’t written up in thesis format with quotes, citations and footnotes, but you get what you get: whether you come back here or not, the site remains.
Dbalcer1 – if you had READ the commentary – instead of someone else’s inflamed reporting of it – you’d know that I was calling the CHARACTERS IN THE SHOW idiots – not the people who watch it.
Thanks for calling me fanatical for that I am, you are not the 1st. person I’ve met that did not like Jericho however the show remains as the best damn show I’ve ever seen on TV imho and yes canceled twice a 3rd. return is slim at best but we rangers take that as a challenge and your site/post is just another step we take marching on towards our goal, we have fought long and hard and get a comic next we get our movie and then? stay tuned. Did I mention that at our latest event 14 of the stars, 3 writers, and a couple of the behind the scenes folks showed up to meet and thank us, providing pictures and autographs all free, have ya ever heard of that before?
I did read your commentary. Your writing was ambiguous. I disagree with your opinion of the show. In fact the more you explain yourself the less I want to watch anything you would recommend.
dbalcer – sorry. reading requires literacy AND comprehension. This is not a Jericho forum and I – more than anyone else on this site – am allowed to have my opinions. That’s an important point – this is not a forum.
You seem to have a major issue with comprehension: I don’t recommend anything here. I offer MY opinion, a little commentary and MY rating. If you don’t like it – don’t come by.
Ready to support that comic to get to the movie, Yahoo.