My lovely wife and I just finished a Jericho marathon, and she thoroughly enjoyed the series. This made me quite happy as I thought it was a very original look at a post-apocalyptic USA, and it was quite well-acted to boot.
The premise, for those who might not have seen the series, is that a large number US cities are taken out by atomic blasts and a mysterious stranger appears in Jericho, a a small town in NW Kansas, and it chronicles the terrible events that followed.
Well-acted, it takes the form of a serial (soap opera, if you will) with events unfolding that are then woven into future episodes until the eventual revelation of who was behind the bombs happens in the final episode.
There are factual errors, but they are few and mostly insignificant and the main theme is not too terribly convincing. The series is, however, exciting and aspects of it will be very familiar to readers of post-apocalyptic literature.
As I said earlier, we thoroughly enjoyed it.
It has been released to DVD.
The premise, for those who might not have seen the series, is that a large number US cities are taken out by atomic blasts and a mysterious stranger appears in Jericho, a a small town in NW Kansas, and it chronicles the terrible events that followed.
Well-acted, it takes the form of a serial (soap opera, if you will) with events unfolding that are then woven into future episodes until the eventual revelation of who was behind the bombs happens in the final episode.
There are factual errors, but they are few and mostly insignificant and the main theme is not too terribly convincing. The series is, however, exciting and aspects of it will be very familiar to readers of post-apocalyptic literature.
As I said earlier, we thoroughly enjoyed it.
It has been released to DVD.