Jericho

[Ginger Snaps]

I watched the series premiere when it aired a half hour ago. This is supposed to be CBS' version of 'Lost', or so I'm told. The premise seems kind of interesting, but I thought that the premiere was kind of boring. And Skeet Ulrich is no Jack Shephard. Or Sawyer. Mmmm.........Sawyer.

 

I'll give this another episode or two to pick up then dump it if it doesn't get better. Did any of you watch this? Do you have any thoughts about it?

[treble]

I saw it a few weeks ago, but if you saw any of the commercials CBS played for it over the summer, you pretty much saw the whole pilot.

[Ginger Snaps]

I was also annoyed by the fact that they seemed to cram as much modern top 40 rock as they could. I like the Killers and Snow Patrol, but that's just hacky.

[Hawkius Maximus]

I liked it alot. I'll watch against next week.

[Hawk 34]

Of all the new dramas that I have watched, this was the first show that turned me away by the half-hour point.

 

The concept, was fine but the characters aren't interesting by any means.

[slimm44]

None of the new series premieres have really got me interested, but yes this was a good one.

[KingPK]

It definitely reminded me of Invasion's premiere last season (intriguing story, so-so characters). This one definitely had more questions other than the big one (What's the mushroom cloud all about?) that I'd like to find out the answer to like why is the son back in town, who killed the sheriff and how long will the town survive without plunging into anarchy?

[Guest Vitamin X]

who killed the sheriff

 

then who shot the deputy

[Guest Hotbutter Spoontoaster]

I liked it. I never got into Lost, but this seems pretty good.

[Jonathon]

This looks "Lost"-lite, but I dug it. I like the St. Louis cop.

[Youth N Asia]

I enjoyed the show. I like end of the world kind of stuff (Jeremiah on Showtime was great)

 

I have a bad feeling that this one won't last long though

[Ginger Snaps]

Maybe I'm the only one who found this slow and boring.

[KingPK]

I watched the pilot again on OnDemand today and yeah, it wasn't exactly pulse pounding, but it still was an interesting start.

 

I still can't shake the comparisons with Invasion though and that may not be a good thing.

[Guest Evolution]

Anybody else get a Night of the Twisters vibe from the setting, cinematography and acting of this series?

 

Skeet has only lost a step or two since Miracles, which is nice.

[RepoMan]

Maybe I'm the only one who found this slow and boring.

I was very underwhelmed.

[Obi Chris Kenobi]

So other then a few people seeing a Mushroom Cloud far away in the distant, then people arguing over petrol till they spilt some... what actually happened? Also were all those kids on weed? They were the most docile kids I've ever seen in a car crash/Nuclear Warfare situation... not that I've seen them, but you get my point.

 

Slow show that didn't seem to achieve anything in the hour it had, I was sitting there waiting for it to expand, for a character to be definded (other then the obvious hero figure), but nope, everyone seems to be the same character.

[KingPK]

Ok, I'm hooked after the second episode. I'm thinking there's some connection between Skeet Ulrich's character and the black "cop from St. Louis". I nearly shouted at the TV for them to show what he wrote down from the Morse code he heard.

[chirs3]

I want to like this show, so badly. It's a great idea for a show, but it's all been pretty dull so far.

 

Except for two moments, one in each episode: when the kid tells everyone his mom wasn't in Denver, she was in Atlanta... and tonight, when St. Louis Cop began marking the map. Those were good moments.

[Youth N Asia]

ehhh, this show's just barely good enough to stick with. I could either really like it or really not anytime now.

[Guest Hotbutter Spoontoaster]

Episode 3 - Four Horsemen - October/4th/2006, preview:

 

The rain stops and people emerge from hiding as rumors of a tank battalion traveling west spread through the community. Some of the townsfolk decide to leave Jericho, and a cryptic snippet of a broadcast causes worry.

[Youth N Asia]

I liked it well enough, but the show's not blowing me away or anythign

[Ginger Snaps]

That's my feeling about this show. It's just interesting enough to keep watching, but it's not a show that I'm really excited about.

[tommytomlin]

Same. I just wish they'd throw a spanner in the works more often. Everything is working out too well for everybody (Dude in the rain is fine, Mayor just had the flu, Emily's husband on the plane is alive, Tracheotomy Kid lives, Kid finds the train shipment with food).

 

I don't want to bring the Lost comparisons, but I want something very, very bad to happen to one of the townsfolk - like Charlie getting hung from the tree by his neck.

[chirs3]

Kinda sad that such a great premise is just barely good enough to keep my interest.

 

That said, tonight's episode was better than the last two. They finally gave us something on St. Louis Cop other than HE KNOWS STUFF~!, so that was good.

[Ginger Snaps]

Things are kinda picking up. Tonight's episode was more interesting than the other weeks, and it is looking more like Rob Hawkins knows a lot more than everyone else about what is going on. But things are still moving a little slow, and it still feels like Lost-lite.

[Youth N Asia]

Show's starting to annoy me more and more every week.

 

Uh oh, big disaster coming, oh wait, everything's resolved, black guy who knows things acts creepy at the end.

 

Same show

[chirs3]

1. Jake needs to stop being Superman. He's rescued a bus full of kids, saved a third of the town by sealing them in a mine with no food and almost no water and they all lived except one guy, made it across town in like 4 seconds to rescue the damsel in distress from the two fake cops, went BACK to the mine to dig everyone out, saved the clinic's generators, and organized about a dozen different search parties. He's a good guy - we get it already.

 

2. They need to stop with the artificial drama. The country was just nuked back to the stone age - subplots like the fake cops, and even momentary OH NO NOT A STEEL TANK THE GAS WILL GO BOOM, feel so goddamn useless in a show about living in the aftermath of nuclear strikes.

 

3. Why why WHY does Dale like that girl? What possible reason could there be, aside from the fact that she's hot? Unless they're preparing to take this in a completely different direction (and it doesn't look like it), the object of this exercise is for the guy to get the girl, and for us to go "awwwww," but at this point I'm actively rooting for Dale to grab one of St. Louis Cop's rifles and put one between her eyes. He'd be doing everyone a favor.

 

Fortunately, I think they've got a good thing going with Useless Brother taking the law into his own hands. First suggesting they not be so polite when asking for gas, then being MANLY~! and keeping his wife away from her patient while they interrogated him. This sort of thing needs to start building, especially with the Mayor getting sick.

 

That and St. Louis Cop are the only things worth sticking with right now.

[Positively Kanyon]

Here's my theory, after watching the first 4 episodes... The Chinese have invaded the USA.

[Youth N Asia]

And the thing about the weird kid liking the bitchy girl. I'm sure they'll give her some great quality later on where the audiance will forget her being a twat and we'll all love her. Screw that

[slimm44]

CBS picked it up for a full season.