Jericho - The First Season
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Audience Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Binding: DVD
Brand: Paramount
EAN: 0097361239149
Format: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
Label: CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
Manufacturer: CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
Region Code: 1
Release Date: October 02, 2007
Running Time: 964 minutes
Sales Rank: 7899
Studio: CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
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Editorial Review:
Description:
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.
Amazon.com:
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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- If you think 9/11 was carried out by the US government, this is the series for youThe writers bob and weave during the first season, but their true intentions come out during the second. ... Read More
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- Wonderful show!!You will not be disappointed if you buy Jericho!! I was hesitant to start watching it, but after I started, ... Read More
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- WOW!How did I miss this series?! This is one of the only action TV shows I've seen that takes such care with characters ... Read More
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- Smallville without the monsters...I like Skeet Ulrich and, seduced by nice box design, I had high hopes for this series. Which weren't exactly dashed, ... Read More
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- Excellent!!!Excellent condition and quality. I was very pleased with the reliable delivery time and condition of the item.
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