![]() ![]() And what a story! True, the hint that there's a dangerous prisoner on the loose is a step in the direction of melodrama, but the rest of the show is the stuff of nightmares because it's the stuff of reality. Then the explosion goes off and the story kicks in. It starts off ordinarily enough, showing us that the small town of Jericho has the usual small town folks doing the usual small town stuff and suffering the usual small town problems. What a fabulous opening for what looks like it might be a quality series. What's more, the sheriff isn't answering his radio. There's a school bus full of kids missing and another bus transporting prisoners has crashed. The town is stunned by the accident, shocked by the news that it's not an accident and then panicked when the lights go out. ![]() He's only there for one day, but those plans are changed when a mushroom cloud appears in the sky over nearby Denver. Jake comes back to his home town of Jericho after several years in unspecified places doing unspecified things to claim some money being held in trust by his father. JERICHO was probably a nice place to live before the bombs. Who did it and why remains a mystery, as does the identity of Jericho's newest inhabitant, Rob Hawkins, a man who knows an awful lot about surviving a nuclear explosion. He, though, quickly becomes one of the ensemble, because this is about everyone.ĭon't expect answers, though. These characters are sharply drawn and well-acted by an excellent cast led by the 'name' of Skeet Ulrich. Post apocalypse survival hasn't been done for a while and JERICHO is a welcome return to the genre with a myriad of character stories mingled into the more general story of the town's survival. ![]() The immediate problems of survival in the face of radiation and fallout give way to long term concerns such as who was responsible, why and how will the they survive in the new world that presents itself. There are survivors, but they are stunned, lost and confused. Nuclear bombs go off all over the United States of America and leave the country devastated. Subscribe to RSS headline updates from: Powered by FeedBurner JERICHO Season 1 Episode Guide and reviews on the SCI FI FREAK SITE ![]()
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