Jericho - The First Season
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Actor: Asley Scott, Gerald McRaney, Pamela Reed, Skeet Ulrich, Sprague GraydenBrand: Paramount
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 5.1; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); Portuguese (Subtitled)
Format: AC-3, Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dolby, DVD-Video, NTSC, Widescreen
Picture Format: 2.35:1
Running Time: 964 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2007-10-02
Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Studio: Paramount
DVD Reviews of Jericho - The First Season
DVD Review: A #1 Prime Numero Uno show
Summary: 5 Stars
A post-apocalyptic show that will not depress you. You will find yourself wishing you lived in Jericho. The focus is on the human reaction and not the devastation. My fellow Browncoats will detect some Firefly-like music in some scenes later in the first season. Go nuts with the show! DVD Review: Great Post 9/11 Series
Summary: 5 Stars
While the thread of the Cold War & global nuclear war seems far behind us, many nuclear weapons are out there & are actually more accessible to terrorist groups of all kinds and therefore still threaten us.
The first season of Jericho realistically portrays what would happen if such an attack took place all over the US. While many movies such as the 'Day After' or the British 'Threads' have shown us what happens to cities, towns, and the surroundings of where the bombs might fall - no one has ever thought of showing us what would happen to the survivors which weren't impacted by the bombs themselves, but rather by the resulted chaos.
And Jericho does exactly that - it shows us that once the bombs fall, society & government will change forever, and what many of us take for granted (such as adequate food supply or heating in the winter) isn't that easy to obtain any longer...
It seems that the writers & producers did extensive research on the proper response to a wide spread terrorist attack, while implying that even after 9/11 & Hurricane Katrina the response may be far from perfect.
DVD Review: the best show ever made
Summary: 5 Stars
Finally a show that makes Americans look good instead of that sea of other shows starring us or portraying us as backstabbing, over-conforming, know-nothings. T&A or violence is not what this show was about and that's one reason why it got cancelled(the people that kept "baywatch" going for 10 seasons weren't watching), the other reason is there is a big anti-american bandwagon full of people that don't want to see a show about Americans pulling together and helping each other during a major crisis. Whoever cast this show deserves some kind of academy award, with everyone doing their best especially Gerald Mcraney, Denny Smith, and Skeet Uhlrich (no more the pretty boy Brad Pitt/keanau Reeves type non-actor he used to be). I'm surprised more women didn't take to this show with all the soapy drama going on in it. Jericho left a big impression on me and I'm looking forward to a movie or miniseries in the near future.DVD Review: If you think 9/11 was carried out by the US government, this is the series for you
Summary: 1 Stars
The writers bob and weave during the first season, but their true intentions come out during the second. The series is kinda like 24, but with an all-American cast of villains. Conservatives, Karl Rove, Halliburton and Blackwater - all are caricatured. If you want to see a live action version of the conspiracies detailed in Mother Jones, the Nation and In These Times, this is your mini-series.DVD Review: Wonderful show!!
Summary: 5 Stars
You will not be disappointed if you buy Jericho!! I was hesitant to start watching it, but after I started, I became an instant addict. This show has a little something for everything -- drama, comedy, romance. It is wonderful.
Description of Jericho - The First Season
JERICHO is a drama about what happens when a nuclear mushroom cloud suddenly appears on the horizon, plunging the residents of a small, peaceful Kansas town into chaos, leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they're the only Americans left alive. But in this time of crisis, as sensible people become paranoid, personal agendas take over and well-kept secrets threaten to be revealed, some people will find an inner strength they never knew they had and the most unlikely heroes will emerge.Part-Lost, part-The Day After, television's first Code Orange serial drama very effectively taps into palpable post-9/11 dread. The residents of Jericho are literally in the dark when they are cut off from civilization in the wake of a nuclear blast. Has the United States been attacked? How many cities were destroyed? Was it terrorists, or something way more sinister? It is up to Johnston Green (an Emmy-worthy Gerald McRaney), the town's mayor (and series bedrock), to calm the community, keep its citizens from turning on each other, and protect them from predatory outsiders. Johnston's son, Jake (Skeet Ulrich), a "screw-up," returns home just prior to the blast following a mysterious five-year absence. Jake is at odds with his estranged father, who is running for reelection, and his brother, Eric (Kenneth Mitchell), his deputy. Nor is he welcomed back by his former girlfriend, Emily (Ashley Scott), now engaged to a man who is missing following the blast. With the fate of America in the balance, one would think that "small town problems" wouldn't amount to a hill of beans in this crazy new world, but it is Jericho's human dramas that resonate most deeply.
On the most cherished TV shows, characters come to feel like family. Jericho's characters come to feel like neighbors. Dale (Erik Knudson), the orphaned teenage outcast, forms an unexpected friendship with the town's spoiled mean girl, Skylar (Candace Bailey). Robert Hawkins (Lennie James), just arrived in town, introduces himself as a former cop from St. Louis, but his secret basement command center suggests otherwise. Gray Anderson (Michael Gaston), a mayoral candidate, politicizes the disaster to undermine Johnston. Stanley (Brad Beyer), a farmer, falls in love with his condescending IRS auditor from Washington, D.C. (Alicia Coppola). And Eric plans to leave his wife, Alice (Darby Stanchfield) for bartender Mary (Clare Carey). But at the heart of Jericho's first season is Jake's hard-earned redemption in his family's (and Emily's) eyes (suddenly, he's a regular MacGyver, able to perform a tracheotomy with a juice box straw!). Star Trek has its Trekkies/-ers and Laurel and Hardy its fraternal organization, the Sons of the Desert. Jericho has its "Nuts," who, in heroic It Takes a Village spirit, mounted a monumental campaign to rescue the series after it had been cancelled. Fans posted a barrage of videos on You Tube and deluged the studio with peanuts (the significance is explained in the season finale). "What is it about this town that has you so addicted to it?" someone asks Emily at one point. Just watch a couple of episodes, and you'll also be hooked. This First Season set should rally Jericho's army and inspire new recruits. --Donald Liebenson
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