My wife and I tried to give this series ago (we rented the first season DVD #1), but it was the most amateurishly written/directed show we've ever seen. The actors were ok, but the words they had them say and the direction was sap TV 101.

Anyway, my problem with this show was mainly the poor, ham-handed writing. Setting was ok, cast was ok. As a 'technical' person, the technical aspects of this show stunk to high heaven. And that 20 year old girl with the broken leg that is somehow a technical genius (and of course, everything she says is bullshit).... grrr... (I could go on, but I'll save you listening to me rant)

The show did have a good plot and could be as good as LOST if they had writers that actually graduated high school and not Oprah Winfrey's school of sap and amateur plot points.

"Don't you people break my heart again". Cripes, I threw up in my mouth a little.

HOO RAY! Hopefully gone for good.

Unfortunately, some hick town cable station might try to resurrect Jericho, just like the ill-fated rescue of Battlestar Galactica, which btw was a better series in the 1970's when it was absolutely terrible.

I lost interest in this show when it went all militaristic and nasty, right after the episode where they go to the "swap meet" and one of the girls was menaced. Later on I heard that Jake's father had died and that galvanized it for me: a show no longer worth watching. The dad was the strongest character and without him, Jericho would have been like Bonanza without Lorne Greene.

What they should have done from the get-go was a modern version of Pat Frank's classic post-nuke novel, "Alas, Babylon" in mini-series form with Skeet in the lead; at least that one had a sense of hope and humanity to it.

We can always go here and vent:

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

Might be bitching into the wind, but whatever. Lots of other people are doing it.

I guess CBS said, "We're only doing seven episodes; we don't need no steenking budget"! I think it is (was, after Tuesday) one of the better shows on TV. I think it was more "real" than any of the ten jillion "reality" shows clogging the airwaves. We simply cannot have a show on TV that tells us what they're going to do to us if we don't play ball. I'm going to buy the DVDs before they "disappear" from the shelves.
No more "airwaves" after 4/09...

:( one of the better shows on tv. Now with the wire gone, I am in serious withdrawal.

When people are watching thier own distruction its hard to watch it as entertainment.
Why not do a show in the Delta with two dudes in a corvette helping katrina victims?
Think 'Route 66' in New Orleans.

This is certainly no big shock. The show had a great original premise, what with multiple nuclear strikes occurring all over the U.S., but after that the science fiction angle pretty much ended. From there, we were treated to stories about how one small town kept life going with food, energy, fuel, and of course sexual interruptions (the sex troubles were THE most difficult for everyone to handle, natch). In truth, it was pretty much a soap opera that had - not a background in a hospital, or big business, or the typical sudsy, dramatic locale - but a small town filled with mostly uninteresting people. To spice it up, they made everyone more concerned with their hormones than the nuclear fallout. The first season, they spent most episodes trying to gather supplies, and they squabbled over them with a nearby town. For this second year brief run, the producers decided to make everyone think a Halliburton-like company did the bombings. Suuuurrrre.

I know everyone on this website would eat up that season 2 idea, but most of America obviously found it as silly as it truly was. And once again, goofy liberal crap ruined a perfectly good entertainment venue, and turned off the masses. Don't liberals ever wonder why nobody falls for this stuff on TV, or on the ratings-challenged Air America radio? The constant barrage of America-Is-Full-Of-Evil conspiracy garbage leaves most of us cold. And leaves Hollywood lefties out of work.

Treats? rofl. THREATS. That would be "threats" that the producers received, although I think no one would be surprised a a TV producer getting a few treats. Would someone please perfect the Self-brewing, Self-Cleaning Coffee I.V.? For God's sake! We can send a man to the moon . . .

If you don't think that the schedule jockeying and short shrift season were not only an effect of the writer's strike, but political pressure over storyline, then you have not been watching the show. Jennings & Rall = Halliburton/KBR/Blackwater. 'Nuff said. Was that the proximate cause of death for this show? No, the strike was probably most impacting on this cancellation, but if you don't think the producers didn't get treats over that storyline, you'd be not only wrong, but foolish, and unfamiliar with how mercenaries operate. Yeah, it failed for valid TV business reasons, but you can count on there being other palm prints on the back of the corpse CBS throws out the window.

This is certainly no big shock. The show had a great original premise, what with multiple nuclear strikes occurring all over the U.S., but after that the science fiction angle pretty much ended. From there, we were treated to stories about how one small town kept life going with food, energy, fuel, and of course sexual interruptions (the sex troubles were THE most difficult for everyone to handle, natch). In truth, it was pretty much a soap opera that had - not a background in a hospital, or big business, or the typical sudsy, dramatic locale - but a small town filled with mostly uninteresting people. To spice it up, they made everyone more concerned with their hormones than the nuclear fallout. The first season, they spent most episodes trying to gather supplies, and they squabbled over them with a nearby town. For this second year brief run, the producers decided to make everyone think a Halliburton-like company did the bombings. Suuuurrrre.

I know everyone on this website would eat up that season 2 idea, but most of America obviously found it as silly as it truly was. And once again, goofy liberal crap ruined a perfectly good entertainment venue, and turned off the masses. Don't liberals ever wonder why nobody falls for this stuff on TV, or on the ratings-challenged Air America radio? The constant barrage of America-Is-Full-Of-Evil conspiracy garbage leaves most of us cold. And leaves Hollywood lefties out of work.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZZ Sorry, whatever.

Any oppurtunity where I can use the name Skeet in parlor conversation is invariably a good one. Skeet.
We hardly knew ye. nuts
Maybe Sci-Fi'll pick it up.

It isn't surprising, since the show was incredibly well written and acted. And in some things, may have hit just a little too close to home. What with a domestic "security" firm being actively involved in a conspiracy to build a new and better america.

Actually as I recall, Star Trek was the first show where fans kept the show on for one more year.

Arrested Developement was another.

I can't understand just what it takes to keep a show on the air. NOT every show can be in the top ten all the time. I don't understand why some shows can't have shows for a few years that are not in the top ten. OR use a cable outlet.

FIREFLY was another great show they screwed up. Huge fan following but not enough to keep it on the air. There is nothing wrong with giving shows some time.

Oh well, the good stuff keeps getting dropped while the crap that aims for the bottom seems to bring out the brain dead in droves.

I'd NEVER make a good exec in Hollywood.