YAY YAY YAY YAY YAY!!!!!

[vaznetti]

It's official! Jericho will come back as a mid-season replacement on CBS!!!!! Yay!!!!

They're showing season one again over the summer, and putting episodes up on line, as well, and the DVD will come out September 25th. Prepare to be pimped! The first half of the season is tough going, I admit, but the second half really pulls together, and the final few episodes are some of the best stuff I saw last year on TV.

Yay!

Comments

[morpheusrex.livejournal.com]

I was hooked on Jericho long before I saw the first episode. Apocalypse stories strike a chord (end-of-western-lifestyle stories being one subset), and it is so rare to see a network produce this kind of work. "Warday" by Streiber and Kunetka is one of my 'missionary' books, the ones you buy over and over again just to give away to others. Jericho seemed like a cross between Warday and PBS American Playhouse's "Testament" at first - an awesome combination.

It sort of veered off in the direction of One Life to Live after that, but, like Vaznetti says, it really started to come together as Hawkins' story was exposed and the neighboring town war arc came to fruition.

[vaznetti]

I too was hooked on the idea of Jericho, although I think the execution faltered at points -- as you say, you never knew from one moment to another whether you were in soap-opera territory or apocalyptic fiction territory. But I think in a way that, over the course of the season as a whole, the soap opera qualities became part of the show's strength. They kept it a show about people rather than only about ideas and worldbuilding.