TV Review: Jericho

Never saw this when it was on, but thanks to the magic of Netflix... I'm on disk 3, 12 episodes into Season One. Beware, spoilers below.


The premise is: Small town Kansas after the US is hit by multiple nukes. Unknown enemies.


And it's not too gun oriented. It took til episode 10 or so before they thought it might be a good idea to start thinking about training an armed security force. Poor planning. It's more than a month and a half into the crisis, too. And they've known that there was NO state or federal government to speak of, that there was a sketchy guy outside of town, that neighboring towns were in shambles at a minimum and they were relatively ok.


Way too sleepy, those townfolks.


Hawkins warned them the first day, and the Sheriff and a deputy got shot for their trouble, at prison bus. No follow-up on where the prisoners went.


When a town person got murdered they called it "the first murder in 30 years" I guess they forgot about that sheriff.


There is one tertiary character that is a gun nut. A real one. You barely see him, but the impression is that he is crazy. Yup, everyone with more than 2 guns is crazy. Paranoid. Why would anyone do that, be a gun crazed Second Amendment fanatic with a bunker. You'd think a nuclear attack would really happen... Oh wait. It did.


They went to him for a spare geiger counter. Still made him sound and act crazy.


There was a kid that found a train full of food. He snuck SOME back to town to give to his grocery-store owning boss, but didn't TELL anyone about it. If I were the mayor I'd have him horsewhipped in the town square for not telling.

And by the 12 episode they are jumping the track, assigning the instigators of the attack to some shadowy semi-governmental group that may be going all rogue and home grown terrorist.

Mmm Hmm. Is that a shark tank they are jumping with a motorcycle? Suspension of disbelief, suspended. Or unsuspended. Whatever.

Ah well, it was fun while it lasted.