I mainly second the comments of 'paladinmtk' "an apocalyptic disappointment" and 'sneezewiz' from D.C. "Nobody is in charge".
A friend borrowed me the first season on DVD, I watched 8 epsiodes and I think I'm not going any further sorry.
When I fell asleep at the beginning of epsode 6 or so I woke up again when the whole town comes to help to bring in some harvest that would have been rotten otherwise. With a dizzy head I was like "Aw, here we go again...". A quote from George Bush came to my mind suddenly: "America needs less families like "The Simpsons" but more of those like "The Waltons"". This is it! "Jericho" is basically "The Waltons". Somebody must have heard your prayers, old chap.
In episode 5 or so the public library burns away but the US-flag at the front rooftop (only 2 feet away from the flames) remains undamaged at all. This shows the whole problem: "Jericho" sacrifies credibility and realism for discounter-emotions and -dialogs, a thin plot-execution and characters who even a month after the nuclear war still look like fresh from the catwalk. Unfortunately their character-development was the first casuality of the fallout in episode two. Or was that three?
Anytime there is something to do, somebody just goes, mainly it's Skeet Ulrich, an actor who deserves better than this engagement. The action then is to drive to the waterplant to open a vent, using a rifle as a leverage. So much for the series' constructive comment to the gun debate. And the tension-curve made me hold my breath (insert irony here).
Then the town makes a giant barbecue on the mainplace to spend all the meat from the supermarket which would have been bad the next day since the fridges were out, and it feels cheesy to see this fiesta taking place almost like no war happened.
And regularly we get annoyed with the worst samples of uninspired mainstream-rock which comes totally unexplainable from somewhere into the scenes.
I stress the question why series like this get produced while the really good stuff like for instance "Firefly" gets folded? (edit: ah just read it was folded after the first season too; that's fair)
America needs more families like The Simpsons and less like the "Jerichos". Urm... wait, whose name was that? But I'm only a German; who am I to dare?
A friend borrowed me the first season on DVD, I watched 8 epsiodes and I think I'm not going any further sorry.
When I fell asleep at the beginning of epsode 6 or so I woke up again when the whole town comes to help to bring in some harvest that would have been rotten otherwise. With a dizzy head I was like "Aw, here we go again...". A quote from George Bush came to my mind suddenly: "America needs less families like "The Simpsons" but more of those like "The Waltons"". This is it! "Jericho" is basically "The Waltons". Somebody must have heard your prayers, old chap.
In episode 5 or so the public library burns away but the US-flag at the front rooftop (only 2 feet away from the flames) remains undamaged at all. This shows the whole problem: "Jericho" sacrifies credibility and realism for discounter-emotions and -dialogs, a thin plot-execution and characters who even a month after the nuclear war still look like fresh from the catwalk. Unfortunately their character-development was the first casuality of the fallout in episode two. Or was that three?
Anytime there is something to do, somebody just goes, mainly it's Skeet Ulrich, an actor who deserves better than this engagement. The action then is to drive to the waterplant to open a vent, using a rifle as a leverage. So much for the series' constructive comment to the gun debate. And the tension-curve made me hold my breath (insert irony here).
Then the town makes a giant barbecue on the mainplace to spend all the meat from the supermarket which would have been bad the next day since the fridges were out, and it feels cheesy to see this fiesta taking place almost like no war happened.
And regularly we get annoyed with the worst samples of uninspired mainstream-rock which comes totally unexplainable from somewhere into the scenes.
I stress the question why series like this get produced while the really good stuff like for instance "Firefly" gets folded? (edit: ah just read it was folded after the first season too; that's fair)
America needs more families like The Simpsons and less like the "Jerichos". Urm... wait, whose name was that? But I'm only a German; who am I to dare?