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Anyone going to watch JERICHO (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/upfront_2006/jericho.shtml) tonight on CBS at 8pm ET/PT? Looks interesting.

It does look fairly interesting, but what I find a bit more interesting is the fact that it's going to air on Australian tv relatively quickly after the states, which doesn't happen.  We're usually a fair way behind, but in this case it's only a few hours from what I remember.

I wonder why that is.

Just watched the first hour episode tonight. This is my kind of Television. The show starts out in a small town in Kansas were the Mayors son has just returned from the Navy and we are introduced to some of the main towns people. Then you see a mushroom cloud on the horizon in the direction of Denver. Would really liked to have seen a two hour opening episode or just a good TV movie, but I will be watching again next week. So far the show is very good.

Dean considering that the news just reported a few minutes ago on CNN that Al Qaeda has just told Muslims to leave all major American cities the show JERICHO plays to real possible scenarios. Maybe Al Qaeda also watched the show tonight from their caves in Afganistan.

I watched it and left with the impression that it will be a LOST clone of sorts.  What I mean is that the characters, and the audience, is 'in the dark' about what is going on, and that leaves the plot arc wide open - no arc, really, just a crazy zig-zag line.

I was not overly impressed - not enough to be glued or waiting with bated breath until next week.

What I do find interesting, however, is that there seems to be a return to TV shows that run serial plot arcs, rather than stand alone episodes.  ER, L&O, NYPDB and several of the major players over the past decade have basically been single eps (with some character driven soap opera drama to act as glue).  Prison Break (which my wife loves) and now Jericho seem like a return of the hour-long serial.

Well, we'll see.

Glad you enjoyed it, Scott.

Yea, I don't know how they are going to make JERICHO into a weekly series, but it appears that they will spend the entire series surviving and looking for survivors. Like BATTLESTAR GALACTICA did back in the 70's looking for the lost tribes or something.

Maybe it will turn into a post apocalyptic politics/war type thing based on limited resources. Even though the characters in JERICHO don't seem to be geared toward that type scenerio. It might be a good idea for another kind of series.

Hey Scott, Skeet Ulrich told a different story every time someone asked where he'd been. He said the Army, then the Navy, and to the kids on the bus he said something about the military. Point is, he didn't tell anyone the truth, plus he needed his inheritance from his grandfather for something mysterious.

Maybe he's the terrorist............na why would he bother saving the kids. I did get the feeling of not knowing what or where he was coming from. Good point Trek Geezer.

There is also something going on between him, the father and the grandfather

What about the black guy who recently moved to town and seemed to have all the answers to the town's problems?  I have a feeling he has something to do with the government.

Overall, the show wasn't too bad but it wasn't great either.  I'm not a huge Skeet Ulrich fan...frankly the guy creeps me out.  The show's writing was "meh" and it didn't do enough in my opinion in the hour it was given.  I'm hoping that it'll get better, and I'm certianly willing to give it a chance.  I'm a sucker when it comes to tv/films about nuclear disasters.

Skaboi Wrote:
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> What about the black guy who recently moved to
> town and seemed to have all the answers to the
> town's problems?  I have a feeling he has
> something to do with the government.
>

Yeah, I kept saying "there's something up with that guy."  He just kept popping up and injecting himself helpfully into situations.

>  it didn't do enough in my
> opinion in the hour it was given.

You know, that reminds of one thing about that bothered me.  They had to 'force' the whole 'disaster' thing with the school bus.  I mean, bus routes are pretty predictable and if one does not show up where it is supposed to be, it is not that hard to figure out where it is.  Also, some of the children would have been dropped off at home, so again, it would not be hard to piece together where it should be.

And when Skeet found it, it's not like it was hidden down a big ravine or anything...he just drove backed it off the deer and drove away.

Soooo, if they have to force the tension in such a hamhanded way, one can rationally ask if the writing is up to the task of the mysterious premise they are trying to create.

Good or bad script JERICHO certainly has us guessing. : ) Like Skaboi said nuclear disaster films usually peaks our intrest. It's been 23 years since the THE DAY AFTER (1983)  (http://imdb.com/title/tt0085404/)came on TV. That was a good one.

Scott,

I actually threw The Day After to the top of my Netflix after watching Jericho.  My wife has never seen the film, and it's one that seriously affected me when I was younger.  Can't wait to see it again.

If you're into that type of film, then try and track down "Threads".  It's sort of a British version of The Day After but much much much more powerful.

I'll look into it Skaboi. Another thing about JERICHO and THE DAY AFTER both stories take place in Kansas. One appears to be Western Kansas and the other Eastern Kansas.

I'd also recommend, both from 1984:

COUNTDOWN TO LOOKING GLASS (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087090/)

and

ONE NIGHT STAND (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0087844/)  Cool Midnight Oil concert scene and kinda a depressing ending.

Wow, two more from the 80's. Thanks Ulthar. Will keep a look out for both.

The kids on the bus were on a field trip not just being taken home from school.  

I saw on the preview that whoever was on the prison bus is featured next week.

I had read a review of the pilot and it went pretty much the way the review said. The show has a large cast and in a one hour pilot they spend a lot of time just marching people in front of the camera and introducing them.


Another one you might be interested in is NBC's Hero's. It's about several people finding they have super abilities, someone who is looking for them, and someone who is trying to cover up their existence. All the characters were not featured in the pilot.

They let the pilot out on iTunes I believe, anyway I saw it at my son's place last time I was over there. I think it starts next Monday night.

trek_geezer Wrote:
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> The kids on the bus were on a field trip not just
> being taken home from school.  
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Okay, so the school authorities did not know the route the bus was taking on said field trip?

It's a minor thing, really, and I don't want to belabor the point.  All I'm saying is there were parts of the plot that felt really forced and could have been done better.

I think it suffered the rushed feelings of many pilot episodes. The characters have to be introduced and the premise has to be explained, etc.

It has some promise, but like many shows it can't be judged by the first episode.

I have to say, I was shocked at Gerald McRaney's appearance. I've been watching him lately on old Simon & Simon reruns, when he was young and in a whole lot better physical shape.

Considering these recent trends, I can't help but think that Cemetary Man is just begging to be spun off into some kind of situation comedy.

trek_geezer Wrote:
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> It has some promise,

I liked Surface that was on last year and it just dis-ay-peared.  Just when it was getting wound up, too.  It will be interesting at the least to see what they do with the premise they've set up for Jericho.  Where the bombs terrorists?  An all-out war?

I really hated the way they dumped Surface, like you said ulthar it was just getting really interesting. They were showing it on NBC and on SciFi (SciFi even had a couple of marathon catch up nights of it). I really hate it when they unceremoniously dump a series without letting them wrap it up in some way.

I don't know how Jericho will work out, but I'm willing to give it a few weeks.

Just a reminder that JERICHO is on tonight. Anyone one who watched last week will remember that the officer was killed checking on the crashed convict bus, a teenager is already storing food in the store icebox, and we might find out if the crazy ham operator made contact with anyone outside of Jericho.

I'm suppose to be four different places today, but might be home in time to see JERICHO if my wife isn't already watching DANCING WITH THE STARS.

Be paranoid...be very paranoid.
Like i need help.....

My mistake. Thought it was on tonight, but it's on Wednesday at 8pm. You'll have to wait till tomorrow to be paranoid. Talk about anticipation.

Don't forget to catch JERICHO tonight so we can have a nice running apocalyptic discussion. Also I forgot to mention its suppose to rain tonight on JERICHO an I'm assuming this means a radioactive rain and those covicts from the bus are loose in town.

Wow, how about tonights show? Any thought on these parts?

That situation with the convicts and the two woman was intense. I was thinking how she should have just come down the stairs and blown them away, but we have the mayors son come to the rescue revealing some kind of bad past between the two.

The teens who's parents are gone

The salt mine. The mayors son sure knows how to do a lot of things. Where's he been for the past five years as Trek Geezer pointed out last week.

The guy on the radio who gets the morse code message and all those tacks indicating all the cities have have been nuked. Denver, Atlanta, Chicago, Philadelphia, San Diego, and more.

The nuclear rains have come to Jericho and the hospital situation.

What happened to the mayor. Heart attack or stroke?

Judging from next weeks preview it looks like they must have survived the rain for now and will be spreading out and looking for more survivors.

For those who saw the show can you raise your hand?

Yeah, Scott the mysteries just keep a-comin'.

I watched it.  I thought the action sequences a bit better than those in the pilot.  At least there WAS some suspense this time.

One of the biggest things that has me interested is the black guy.  Who IS he?  What does he know?  Why did he hide the fact of the received message from the Mayor's wife?

Something's up with him.

(on a complete side note, is it just a bit sad that you can identify a chararacter on a tv show with 20 significant characters as "THE black guy"?  Oh well, small towns do tend to be rather homogenous.)

How'd they fit all that in an hour? : )

Don't forget JERICHO is on tonight at 8pm eastern time.

From the ads on tv, Jericho looks really interesting and something I'd probably get into, like Lost I suppose, since the few episodes I have caught were pretty good, but like Lost its on a time slot where I can never really watch it and I haven't had the patience or the motivation to tape it.  It's a bugger really...

They will probably re-show it sometime. If it becomes a favorite maybe they will put it on DVD.

Ok, tonights show was pretty good. Small wrap ut of events.

1) The town seems to have survived the rains for now.

2) What's our knowledgable friend doing stealing weapons and prepared for nuclear disaster?

3) The towns last supper?

4) Teen finds freight train with lots of food.

5) The Mayor's rival acting up.

6) Brief glimpse from satilite channel coming from China showing U.S. map with cities struck.

7) Teams head in four direction to find survivors and one finds airliner that landed on a highway.

8) Pilots communications found in black box from highway landing.

9) Where are the passengers of the airliner?

10) Next weeks show. People suffering bad radiation illness coming from Denver to Jericho.

Stay tuned...............

Our Knowledgable friend was moving weapons he had stashed.

What's in the barrel he's walling up in the basement?

Why wouldn't he let his kids go to the party?

In next week's preview he asks the radiation sickness victim "Why did you go back to Denver?"

Why hasn't Scott mentioned the mayor's perfect son isn't so perfect? (Sleeping with the bar owner, when he has an attractive wife who is the town's doctor)

Good show so far, so many questions. Looks like there is war in the U.S..

They also mentioned a couple times that tanks were seen heading towards Denver.

This is wild.

For those still watching JERICHO it's on tonight at 8pm. The series is so timely with the recent Iranian and North Korean nuclear activity.

There was that satillite news report on JERICHO from the bar with Chinese or Korean news person reporting on nuclear hits on U.S., but then the signal faded for any details.

Well.............JERICHO starts out interesting when the radiation burn guy shows up saying "Their coming". Then the middle of the show kinda falls apart with the search for the generator gas, the teen party, and finding the dead radiation victims by the lake. The only thing that peaked my interest this week was finding out that the towns "outsider" is part of something much larger. Then at the end of the episode they show some chaos with those explosions in town. The glimpse we get of next weeks show looked interesting.

This weeks show wasn't that good. This one still has enough unanswered questions to keep it interesting.

It's JERICHO time.........Tonight at 8pm on CBS. Maybe we will find out more about this "outsider" and what are those small explosions from this weeks episode clip?

Scott,

You'll have to fill me in tomorrow.  I'll be watching the baseball game.  I love baseball but limit my watching to the post season.  Gonna have to pass on Jericho tonight.

Jake seems to have a lot of knowledge also. He almost tells his Dad where's he's been the last five years, but his Dad says he doesn't care. He's just happy he came back such a good man.

Hawkins (outsider guy) does some research on Jake and turns up flagged passports from a number of central and south american countries.

Where'd the missiles at the end launch from ?

Yea, the son and the outsider are being revealed. What was weird is when the outsider typed something into is lab top it was Russian langauge.

This weeks episode was much better than last weeks. Then you have the power and phones come back on with the emergency TV broadcast and the White House podium waiting for someone to appear.

Well, alot of our nuclear missles are in the mid-west. That was a good ending for this weeks episode with the missles being lanched in the distance.

Ulthar, i watched the last 3 innings of the ballgame and the rest between commercials.

Jericho is on tonight on CBS at 8pm. Looks like the U.S. retaliates against someone. North Korea, China, Russia, Iran, or someone else.

Also Sci-Fi Channel has new season of GHOSTHUNTERS at 9pm and Sci-Fi: IVESTIGATES at 10pm.

One of the better episodes this week as we see the missles being launched and then the EMP bomb frying all the electronics in Jericho and probably much further since they can reach like 1000 miles radius.

Then we had the social break down of Jericho followed by the recovery of law and order at the end of the episode this week.

Next week the mayors rival returns and some other people arrive. They also revealed a little more of our two main characters.

JERICHO is on tonight at 8pm on CBS. Anyone still watching it?

The show is becoming a bit like a soap opera, but it's a nuclear soap opera. This week the mayor almost died and the rival mayor is back and making his mark. More is being revealed about or two strangers. They confirmed that Washington was wiped out and that New York City survived.

As per usual I tried and failed to watch a whole episode, this week only catching the last three minutes.  But the trailer for the next episode again looked vaguely interesting.  So at least I know the basics of what's going on...

But what I'm actually liking more is the fact that I can actually talk about a show that I'm watching as it airs in the states.  Usually we're at least 3 months behind the US, but now programs are starting to get shown more and more in time with America.  Someone was telling me it had something to do with the networks trying to stop downloading, since logically if it was a really good series you wanted to watch, but didn't want to wait for it to come out here, you would therefore try and download it.

Interesting idea, but hey, I don't care.  It just means less waiting for me, so that makes it all better!

Ulthar asked me about the two strangers.

They are telling us more about the returning mayors son. Looks like he was involved with some bad people before he left town that resulted in the death someone and that is why he was away I suppose. He may have learned a lot while away.

The other stranger picked up his wife and daughter before the cities where destroyed because he had fore knowledge of the event. He's either a real bad guy or someone else.

They should have made this a mini-series or something. Not enjoying the soap opera stuff, but I do like finding out were the series is going.

Ok, good episode tonight. The two sons had to go to another town to get medicine for the Mayor who was dying. When they arrived at the other town it was deserted except a gunman and a doctor at the hospital. The town was vacated by FEMA by some govorment hired mercenaries since our troops were fighting in other countries. They manage to get back to Jericho with the medicine and a doctor after a confrontation with these govorment mercenaries who killed all the weak in the other town.

Our other stranger was interrogated in his home by the mayors rival and his home was searched finding an FBI badge.

About the mayors son "Jake" we find out that he has been in Iraq as some kind of corporate transport in the green zone.

One of the sons left his jacket behind in the other town when getting medicine and the mercenaries have found it. Looks like they will be heading to Jericho next.

This weeks episode was good and they may have a good follow up next week as the town prepares to take on the mercenaries.

(http://hem.bredband.net/b103656/Jericho.jpg)

Hey, when I saw D.B, Sweeney leading the mercenaries, I knew we hadn't seen the last of them.


Just read this on AICN, Jericho will end with a cliffhanger on Nov. 29 and then return next February.  Read the article here (http://www.aintitcool.com/node/30640?cbs_says_brno_reruns_brfor_jericho).

The only advantage to showing it this way is that there are no reruns.

Get ready it's on again tonight. CBS at 8pm Eastern Time on Wednesdays.

Well......They face off the Mercenaries at the bridge in Jericho by rigging the bridge with explosives and our outsider helped protect Jake. The rest of the show was more Soap Opera again with the back drop of nuclear holocast.

Next week's show is the finale one of this season and the previews show parachutes coming down and something marked with Chinese emblem on it. Next week should be a cliff hanger.

Watched a bit more than five minutes for once, and it was pretty interesting.  Even though it won't go in the direction I really want it to [that is less soap opera drama, and more world chaos drama] I'm still enjoying the somewhat limited time I get to spend watching this though!

Scott...why did you stop?...I just now read all your cliff notes and you didn't put in the cliffhanger episode. You left me on a cliffhanger before the cliffhanger ,he,he,he...Was it Chinese take-out ? I think I might start watching this show, it sounds pretty good.  :teddyr:









 

I missed the last 2 episodes of the season. Hopefully it continues in September. (or when ever the next episodes air.)

It's a good show, but a bit to soap opery for me. They do manage to keep you watching week to week. I hear you can watch all the episodes on the JERICHO CBS webpage.

http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/ (http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/)

     Thank you very much.. I'll watch it.  :smile:

Scott!! The second half of the season starts Feb. 14.

Thanks Trek Geezer. I'll try to watch the last two episodes before then.

Watched the last two episodes on CBS. It's a good show, but I'd like to see them focus more on the bigger picture. Of course that would make it a much shorter program. If your going to have a soap opera it may as well be post apocalyptal. Will be watching the rest and by the way the Chinese air dropped food supplies at the end of the season. I'll be watching it again in Febuary.

JERICHO is back Wednesdays at 8pm. Watched the latest episode last night and it was a good one as they showed what happened 48 hours before the bombs went off.

It seems that Jake (the former mayors son) and our new resident in Jericho have been very bad. I'm sure there will be more twist before its over.

There is no doubt they are milking the mystery and ambiguity of Hawkins to the hilt.  I think that is the one sure "hook" that keeps folks watching.

The only thing that I disliked about the episode was Jake's involvement with Ravenwood before the bombs. 

Another good episode tonight. The town sends out 4 to a place where there iis some kind of trading post. Included in the group are the former mayor, Jake, the mechanically inclined girl, and the teen who took over the store. In the market area are signs that you'll be strung up if you steal with someone hanging with a bag over his head near by. They went to this post to get parts for a windmill to help generate power for the town and the boy tries to be be heroic and put the part in the backpack only to get caught and the 4 with a little help get out of the compound. The trading post is rather seedy and involved in all kinds of trade. This makes the series a little better as they get away from the soap opera stuff and into more of the social degeneration of a post nuclear world. We also learn that the world is sending supplies not just China and that there are now 6 presidents instead of 1 and each area is scabbling for survival and power. Hawkins friend also shows up.

The March 7 & 14 episode tell us a lot about Hawkins. The barrel in his basement is definitely a nuke. Where was he supposed to deliver it? Where is his family going to go? Every episode just begs more questions.

The town now has an Abrams tank and ex-Mayor Greene looks to be back in charge since his successor sorta ran dry of ideas and totally flubbed by not catching on to the fake Marines.


My wife and I figured that Hawkins daughter or wife was going to off his old partner.

I've missed all but the first two episodes of the second season. Has anyone been watching this show and can you give us a quick recap?