[Movie] CBS's Nuclear Apocalypse Drama: Jericho

Jericho is set in a fictional Kansas town nestled between Denver and Wichita. When a mushroom cloud plumes over Denver, and communications go out, panic begins to set in as nuclear fallout fills the skies. The torrent for the pilot can be found here and a new episode will air tonight on CBS at 8PM ET/PT.

So far some pretty radical stuff has happened, though the writers seem to be attempting to apply a WB drama mentality to the nuclear apocalypse. Something that's sure to be interesting as the crisis plays out over the next several episodes. In tonight's episode the town is hit by the fallout and people develop radiation sickness.

So far it's worth watching, but we'll see if modern entertainment can ruin even the most awesome of survivalist settings.

There's also a companion website called Beyond Jericho which features a seperate story and events that will eventually intertwine with the show.

And Beyond Jericho is extremely retarded. How lovely.

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Lookin' good, lookin' good. I'm really looking forward to how much the situation will spin out of control.

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"Four Horsemen" October 4, 2006 3
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.


"The Walls of Jericho" October 11, 2006 4
A dying man who may have radiation burns is found, and he has a mysterious warning; Dale discovers a train loaded with food outside town. A map is hung on the wall that shows which major cities have been hit.

Apparently somebody at CBS was informed on what a bunch of campy B-grade shit Beyond Jericho was and they've pulled the plug on the project. The companion site no longer exists.

There's nowhere I can't reach.

The post apocalypse isn't the kind of setting that lends itself well to long drawn-out episode runs. Unless of course, nobody dies.

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Jericho is mostly an allusion.

The biggest problem with the show is that the plot doesn't advance until the first and last 5 minutes, making the rest of an episode filler. It keeps stringing me along because I love the Post Apocalypse, but if the body count doesn't start rising I'm gonna be seriously pissed.

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What's starting to get to me is how every time people start behaving like rational beings is how the whole community pulls together in some kind of communist hippy love-in by the end of the episode, and all crises are averted. There's not a chance in Hell that people would have helped that guy harvest his corn "no strings attached," and it was perfectly reasonable of the store owner to try and trade her pesticides for half the crop. So what happens towards the end? She gives them away. I'm losing a lot of faith in this show. It's a shame too, since this episode actually had a lot of plot progression.

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So how is it looking this time around? I figured it just turned to shit around October.

What kind of toxic man-thing is happening now?