Jericho

[Cookiely]

Anyone else get hooked? Reminded me of the book Alas Babylon which I've read untold times since I was a child. Future story lines sound good. Does anyone know the name of the actress that was in the bar, kind of looked like a lawyer of business woman? I know she was on CSI, killed people and drank their blood because she had some kind of illness.
http://www.tv.com/jericho-2006/show/580 ... sodes;more

[vbhoutex]

Enjoyed it! In fact I skipped choir practice to check it out. Definitely looks like a good series, but choir will have to win out.

[Miss Mary]

Darn - I meant to check it out. We have busy TV nights on Mondays and Thursdays. I was enjoying a night "off" and forgot about this new show premiering. The lead male star I remember from a Hallmark or PBS movie last year, called the Magic of Ordinary Days. He was superb in that movie. No doubt Skeet Ulrich is good in this role as well.

[Cookiely]

Enjoyed it! In fact I skipped choir practice to check it out. Definitely looks like a good series, but choir will have to win out.

You can always tape it. They put my favorite shows NCIS and House in the same time slot, so I had to tape NCIS.

[x-y-no]

Ack! I was out last night and I forgot to set the tape ...

How was it? Is it worth downloading?

[Brent]

I watched it. It was pretty decent and I'll watch again.

The pilot re-airs on Saturday at 8 for anyone who missed it.

Edit: Better than I expected ratings...

The "Dancing with the Stars" results show, 10.2/17, put ABC on top at 8 p.m. The debut of "Jericho" drew a 7.5/12 for CBS. "Bones," 4.7/8, put FOX in third, ahead of the season premiere of "The Biggest Loser" on NBC. The season premiere of "America's Next Top Model" on The CW posted a 3.1/5.

[Cookiely]

I watched it. It was pretty decent and I'll watch again.

The pilot re-airs on Saturday at 8 for anyone who missed it.

Edit: Better than I expected ratings...

The "Dancing with the Stars" results show, 10.2/17, put ABC on top at 8 p.m. The debut of "Jericho" drew a 7.5/12 for CBS. "Bones," 4.7/8, put FOX in third, ahead of the season premiere of "The Biggest Loser" on NBC. The season premiere of "America's Next Top Model" on The CW posted a 3.1/5.

Thanks Brent I didn't know it was going to be shown again. I would like to watch it again. As usual the phone rang and I missed a few minutes.

[GulfBreezer]

Is it worth downloading?

What do you use for downloading? I am curious because I was wanting to do that and have looked at utorrent and a few others.......any suggestions?

[x-y-no]

Is it worth downloading?

What do you use for downloading? I am curious because I was wanting to do that and have looked at utorrent and a few others.......any suggestions?

Get yourself a BitTorrent client (I use µtorrent) and lots of recent TV shows are posted at Pirate Bay

[x-y-no]

Downloaded and watched it - pretty good show. I'll definitely keep watching this series.

Being the technogeek I am, I have some problems with the depiction of the effects of the explosion (assuming it was nuclear) but not so much as to spoil my ability to enjoy the drama.

[azsnowman]

Yes...it was a GOOD show but I had friggin' NIGHTMARES about it....SERIOUSLY I woke up at 0330 this morning thinking, "What the HECK was THAT all about?"

[GalvestonDuck]

Yup, I watched it too. Like you, Cookiely, I was thinking about "Alas, Babylon." Wasn't there a part of it where one of the kids was at the window and watched the blast and then was blinded? At first, I thought the son of the sheriff/mayor was also, but then I realized he could see.

I guess they're trying to make this one like Lost, The 4400, and other shows like that -- where there's a "mystery" the audience tries to solve about the show and where you can't blink or you'll miss something. We still don't know if it was a nuclear blast (we're so conditioned to believe mushroom cloud=atomic bomb), we don't know who did the bombing or caused the explosions, we don't know how many other towns survived and out bad it is outside of Jericho, and doggone it, we don't know where those prisoners went. What was up with the prison bus? Unless I missed it, they only showed it once, right? When the police were trying to find the school bus and came upon the prison one and the guards who had been shot?

I'm hooked until something weird happens and they lose me. I still have Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, ER, and SVU. I'm not sure about Kidnapped yet. I recorded it but haven't watched yet.

[Thunder44]

I watched it. It was pretty decent and I'll watch again.

The pilot re-airs on Saturday at 8 for anyone who missed it.

Edit: Better than I expected ratings...

The "Dancing with the Stars" results show, 10.2/17, put ABC on top at 8 p.m. The debut of "Jericho" drew a 7.5/12 for CBS. "Bones," 4.7/8, put FOX in third, ahead of the season premiere of "The Biggest Loser" on NBC. The season premiere of "America's Next Top Model" on The CW posted a 3.1/5.

I missed about the first half of this show, and I liked what I saw. Thanks for you telling us about the same episode being reaired again on Sat.

[Cookiely]

Yup, I watched it too. Like you, Cookiely, I was thinking about "Alas, Babylon." Wasn't there a part of it where one of the kids was at the window and watched the blast and then was blinded? At first, I thought the son of the sheriff/mayor was also, but then I realized he could see.

I guess they're trying to make this one like Lost, The 4400, and other shows like that -- where there's a "mystery" the audience tries to solve about the show and where you can't blink or you'll miss something. We still don't know if it was a nuclear blast (we're so conditioned to believe mushroom cloud=atomic bomb), we don't know who did the bombing or caused the explosions, we don't know how many other towns survived and out bad it is outside of Jericho, and doggone it, we don't know where those prisoners went. What was up with the prison bus? Unless I missed it, they only showed it once, right? When the police were trying to find the school bus and came upon the prison one and the guards who had been shot?

I'm hooked until something weird happens and they lose me. I still have Grey's Anatomy, Desperate Housewives, ER, and SVU. I'm not sure about Kidnapped yet. I recorded it but haven't watched yet.

The only thing so far is the fact that Denver and Atlanta were bombed. How come it didn't show them on the ham radio after he paid the man fifty cents. I thought that was hilarious. Did the Mayor get in touch with the governor? Anyone else love the line in the show "Don't break my heart again".

[GalvestonDuck]

I loved that. Great speech by the mayor.

[x-y-no]

The only thing so far is the fact that Denver and Atlanta were bombed. How come it didn't show them on the ham radio after he paid the man fifty cents. I thought that was hilarious. Did the Mayor get in touch with the governor? Anyone else love the line in the show "Don't break my heart again".

No, when he spoke to the crowd at the end he said he hadn't.

This is one of my quibbles with the show so far. Ham radio communications are a lot more robust than this implies. Whatever the nature of this attack, presumably Jericho isn't the only small town to survive. There would be hundreds of ham operators on the air sharing information within the first couple of hours. Not to mention all the ones in countries all over the world. The implication in the show was that they weren't reaching anyone and that just wouldn't happen unless they were literally the only ones left on Earth.

[conestogo_flood]

I loved it. A few friends and I had a Jericho "party".

[Cookiely]

I wonder how far away the detonation was from Jericho. Wouldn't that Magnetic Pulse thingamajig affect communications and electronic module in cars or is that just in the immediate area of the bomb blast. Anyone know? Maybe that's why the ham didn't work?

[GalvestonDuck]

I wonder how far away the detonation was from Jericho. Wouldn't that Magnetic Pulse thingamajig affect communications and electronic module in cars or is that just in the immediate area of the bomb blast. Anyone know? Maybe that's why the ham didn't work?

I thought about that also. And yet, didn't the mayor and the officers communicate with radios when they went out on a search? Maybe since they were just walkie-talkies and short-range, it didn't cut them off, but longer distance communications might be difficult or impossible.

[azsnowman]

Watched the rerun last night just to pick up on things I missed. They did communicate via UHF radios shortly after the blast....