Review: Jericho Season 2 Premiere
Tuesday February 12, 2008
Jake (Skeet Ulrich) and Emily (Ashley Scott) in the season premiere of Jericho.
© Mitchell Haddad/CBS.
The new season raises the stakes as Jericho's situation is transformed, introducing a new and vaguely sinister government in Cheyenne (the unease associated with its tactics and policies is represented by its flag, on which the stripes run the wrong way) and the presence of several new actors and agendas in Jericho. My colleague Rachel Thomas over at TV Dramas says Jericho is better than ever, and while I have a bit of hard time reconciling the intensity of the last episodes of last season with the equally urgent but dramatically different tensions and threats of the new season, I realize that Jake is feeling the exactly same thing. Jericho continues to be so well made and so powerfully resonant that you're drawn into their world and their feelings; it's still some of the most compelling and compulsive viewing on TV. Everyone watch this show!
Check out my review here. For a complete episode-by-episode review of season 1, check out my overview here.
Comments
I gotta say I was a little let down with Jehrico. Way too much bad CBS soap opera writing. Why is it that all CBS dramas seam to have the WORST writing? If they’d get rid of that I’d be way more pleased.
More important, I’m a bit concerned that it’s going to lose it’s post-apocalyptic appeal. Without the existential heroism of the town itself surviving and fending off the chaos…I fear it’s just a soap opera with a psuedo mystery twist.
Also, I can’t figure out how Payton Manning films all those scenes as Jake’s brother and still be an all-pro QB.
Jericho Lives !
Thanks CBS for giving this great show a second chance.
Heres to season 3 !!
Glad the show came back on the air. It is such good preparation, mentally, for anyone who might end up facing this possible future. You just watch it go, “That’s EXACTLY what would happen if! . . . ” Everyone worries about nuclear war but what about those who survive it? That’s what makes this show so much better than the rest . . . and it’s done in a highly entertaining way, with a warm cast that you can’t help but like.