Jericho
Jericho premiered Wednesday, September 20. http://www.cbs.com/primetime/jericho/ Things are quiet and peaceful in small-town Jericho, Kansas, but when a baffling explosion occurs in the distance, Jericho's residents are plunged into social, psychological and physical chaos. No one knows what to think, and fear of the unknown takes over the town, especially because its isolation cuts it off from outside help. When nearly everything they know seems gone, will the residents of JERICHO band together to face their unfamiliar and mysterious new world? Skeet Ulrich ("Scream," "As Good as It Gets") stars. Cast: Skeet Ulrich as Jake Green Ashley Scott as Emily Sullivan Sprague Grayden as Heather Lisinski Kenneth Mitchell as Eric Green Lennie James as Robert Hawkins Michael Gaston as Gray Anderson Erik Knudsen as Dale Turner Gerald McRaney as Mayor Green Pamela Reed as Gail Green

Re: Jericho
Looks promising. But then again, so did Invasion.

Episode 1: Pilot With all the hugs and pop songs, it's like The WB is still with us. Jake Green returns to his hometown of Jericho, Kansas after a five-year absence. He hugs half the town, and lies to them all about where he's been. We can only hope that this turns out to be a Grosse Pointe Blank spinoff. After arguing with Mayor Dad about an inheritance, Jake drives off into the sunset. Where a mushroom cloud has appeared over Denver. Jake manages to crash into the only other car on the road, and limps away. Then he comes upon a stranded school bus, which apparently went way off the road after hitting a deer. If the driver hadn't died in the crash, he'd be so fired. Jake performs a juicebox-assisted tracheotomy and prepares to drive the kids back to town. But uh oh, the bus is almost out of gas! It doesn't actually run out, though, so that part just makes you think that the writers couldn't even get one episode's worth of suspense out of a nuclear explosion. Meanwhile (and this show has almost as many "meanwhile"s as hugs), the sheriff finds another bus, but this one turns out to be a prison transport. Since Tommy Lee Jones isn't around, the sheriff and a deputy both get killed by an escaped prisoner. Back in town, the power's out, and people are freaked. The obligatory paranoid loon thinks they've been attacked by aliens, but lends Mayor Dad his ham radio for a small fee. The obligatory black guy is more useful than the entire police force put together. There's almost a riot at the gas station, but Mayor Dad turns up in time to speechify, calming everyone down. They're so calm that they take the news that something bad also happened in Atlanta pretty well, considering. At the end, Jake's potential romantic interest, who seems to have missed all the goings-on, literally runs across a flock of dead birds scattered across the highway.

Another one that I'm going to keep watching. I'd like these types of shows/books. It's funny seeing Gerald McRaney in this after watching him on Deadwood playing Hearst though. I've got the kid watching this one. I like that it's on right before LOST

Episode 2: Fallout First things first: we find out that the town's population is less than five thousand. One mystery solved! After her close encounter with the dead birds, Emily runs out of gas, boo. But she's picked up by a couple of cops, yay. Who are, of course, actually escaped prisoners, boo. But the cops they're impersonating are still alive, yay. But they're in the trunk of the police car, boo. Emily takes them to casa Richmond, where they have a nice breakfast with Bonnie. Then she sneaks out to place an emergency call via the police radio in the car. While that's going on, it's time for the townsfolk to duck and cover, since a whole lotta fallout is headed their way. Eric helps herd the townsfolk into the old shelters, and we learn that he may be a good son, but he's not scoring so high as a husband; he trades smooches with the bartendrix while his wife tends to patients at the medical center. Hawkins goes to see if he can get any news on the ham radio. And he does, but he doesn't tell anyone about it. Since the shelters are full, Jake helps convert the mine into a makeshift shelter, and then gets the S.O.S. from Emily. Dale makes an extra effort to save the bitchy townie from certain death. Dad goes missing for a while, and then turns out to have had a heart attack, or a fainting spell, or something. Back at casa Richmond, Emily finds herself in a standoff with the fake cops, who hold Bonnie hostage. Jake turns up just in time, and he and Emily kill the fugitives, then take shelter in the Richmond's cellar. At the end, Hawkins visits his wife and kids, and they hunker down while Hawkins reveals to the audience that the message he picked up is a list of other cities that went boom. There's a lot of them.

Episode 3: Four Horsemen While everyone waits for the rain to stop, Hawkins suits up and gets a mysterious drum of mysteriousness from a storage facility, which he hauls back to his house and hides. Sternly finally turns up. And he might have radiation sickness, but then it turns out he doesn't. In other chain-yanking news, Dad has the flu, and there wasn't any fallout after all, so everyone's fine. Well, everyone except this one guy who flips out in the mine and then dies offscreen. After everyone else is unearthed, Heather gets all Nancy Drew about that, and it turns out that rather than cause a panic, Shep let the guy die. But he feels really bad about it. At the bar, they manage briefly to pick up a signal of a Chinese broadcast that gives them a vague idea of how much of the country went boom. Emily finishes freaking out about killing someone, and started freaking out because her fiancé must be dead. Jake decides that they need to send out search parties to find out what's going on. Everyone heads out, and pretty soon Jake comes across two airplanes that tried to land on the highway. One appears to have been successful. So Jake retrieves the black box, carts it back to Jericho, lets everyone listen to the plane crash, and even manages to isolate a bit of background chatter that establishes that Emily's fiancé's plane landed safely. You might wonder where Jake learned how to do all that, but I'm sure it'll turn out that he knew a guy. Jericho has a jolly block party with the last of Gracie's food, while Dale wanders off and finds the train with Gracie's next shipment. If he's smart, he won't give any of it to Skylar. Oh yeah, and there's this scene where Gary bitches out Dad for not keeping the shelters maintained, so Dad sucker-punches Gary and tells him to shut up because they're under attack and this is no time to upset everyone by second-guessing authority figures. In the context of the show, it sounds quite reasonable, and we come away thinking, "Yeah, go Dad!" Which means that in the context of our reality, which I assume is the same one that the writers inhabit, it's pretty vile.

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I just don't like the look of this show. It looks really cheap.

Episode 4: Walls of Jericho This week's first plotline is based on the fact that the people of Jericho are dim bulbs. Wait, that's what every plot is about. But this week the lights are going out, for real. Again. Because they've been using their generators to keep every decorative light and television at the bar going for the past few days. The power at the clinic is also flickering, endangering the life of the bubble-baby. If only they could have predicted that this might happen, and planned for it in advance. Jake, Stanley, and Heather make a mad dash to siphon gas from the Texaco station. There's the usual "maybe someone's about to die" fake-out, which is resolved with the usual whimper. The power comes back on, everyone bellies up to the bar, and Eric starts asking for gas donations so that we don't have to go through this again in Episode 8. Our second storyline involves the discovery of a radiation-burn victim named Victor. He's rushed to the clinic, and manages to tell Jake that there's a group of refugees from Denver outside town. Over April's pro-*test*-('")s, they decide to give Victor an adrenaline shot so that he can give them more information. Hawkins takes a break from teaching his family their cover stories so that he can have a private chat with Victor. We learn that Hawkins and Victor are part of the same secret ambiguous conspiracy, and that there was a traitor in their midst. Oh no! Or, yay! Depending on how you feel about cops from St. Louis. Then Victor dies. Jake lectures the townsfolk into sending a team out to rescue the refugees. Unfortunately, they only find a pile of corpses. Bummer. But it's not all bad news: Emily wasn't in this episode very much. Oh, and Dale brought all of the food from the train back to town and single-handedly restocked Gracie's store. Seriously.

I'm still giving it a chance....well a chance to explain about the radiation not affecting everyone.

Episode 5: Federal Response After spending all night playing cards, Jake finally learns the Auditor's name (Mimi), and Eric plans to really, seriously tell his wife that he's leaving her for Mary. Suddenly, the power comes back on, which leads to gratuitous Bachman-Turner Overdrive. Also, phones start ringing with an automated message from Homeland Security advising people to stay put, because "help is on the way." The townsfolk still can't get anything via television or the internet, though, which make it look more and more likely that the PTC has finally taken over the country. As an added bonus, having electricity back leads to a small explosion that injures Emily. Unfortunately, she survives, plus the library almost burns down. Meanwhile, Hawkins takes a portable satellite dish out to his yard, and uses his laptop to pass on some more secret messages. After dealing with the fire in his usual heroic fashion, Jake climbs onto a rooftop and peers around town through a rifle scope (don't ask) looking for other fires. He notices that Eric's house is ablaze, and also spots Hawkins behaving in a suspect fashion. Jake and Hawkins completely fail to save Eric's house, and while sifting through the ashes later, Eric finds out that April was planning to divorce him. Naturally, admitting that they loathe one another causes them to renew their bond. Or something. Jake almost tells Dad where he's really been for the past five years, but Dad insists that he doesn't want to know. Sigh. That evening, everyone troops down to the bar as usual, because the satellite dish at Bailey's is picking up what appears to be a presidential podium. So they gather to wait and see if anyone will appear behind it and say something. Instead, there's a distant rumbling, and everyone goes outside just in time to see missiles zooming into the sky.

There are now links to watch full episodes of Jericho at the official website. Click on Episodes, select the one you want and it will take you to Innertube to play the episode.

???? I didn't think it mattered where you live if you're downloading from a website. You may have to go to the us CBS website instead of the Canadian one but it should work. Or maybe you have to download a media player to play it.

Episode 6- 9:02 While everyone's still goggling at the missiles, there's an electromagnetic pulse, and the power goes out. Permanently. Cut to two weeks later. Dad's still down with what we're continuing to call "the flu," and with no one to give them inspiring speeches, the townsfolk have descended into violent anarchy. Well, not really, but they're definitely getting whinier. And then there are horse thieves. No, really. The Greens' horses are stolen by a guy named Mitchell, who lives on a "compound" with some other ne'er-do-wells. Mitchell knows Jake from his bad old days, and so we learn that the mysterious reason Jake left town -- which Good Cop was teasing him about last week, remember -- might be connected to an incident where some kid got his brains blown out. Good Cop's got a weird sense of humor. Anyway, it turns out that Dale had Mitchell & Co. help him move some of the stuff he found on the train to Gracie's store. Then the guys took everything else from the train, and then, naturally, progressed to rustling. Which answers a few questions, and raises a dozen new ones. Jake and Eric go to the compound and capture Mitchell, but can't find the rest of the salvaged food. While Jake argues that it's never too soon to start lynching people, Mitchell makes menacing noises about how someone Jake used to know is gonna come to Mitchell's rescue. In other news, Allison goes snooping around in Hawkins's bunker, and gets to shoot Vanilla Ice CDs as a reward. Mimi wants to move in with Stanley after her hotel kicks her out. To pay her way, she has Mitchell steal some pesticide from Gracie. Stanley gives it back, and then the whole town heartwarmingly helps Stanley to pick his corn before the icky bugs eat it all. Emily appears briefly, but doesn't talk. Excellent.