buizelna It's incredibly surprising how high the rating is for this show on here. I couldn't even get past a few episodes. Everything about it feels like a soap opera. Very boring shots, horrible acting, pointless dialogues, and nonstop background music. I actually thought I was watching a soap opera until I double checked online.

Christian Troy I just finished watching this series and I'm also interested in seeing more of it if someone is willing to produce it (I've already offered to sponsor another one that I thought it would last forever and got pretty bumped when it hit the can cause it was my favorite; That sponsoring deal it will happen if I ever get the cash of course. But someone else should offer for this one I can't do all of them). Well to conclude with this some of us got used to it and it gets easier every time; we've learned to enjoy them while they last. There are many TV shows suspended and as many still going on and on and on for years. For example there's one that started since before I was born and still airing and I'm 32 years old; it's got up to season 40something for crying out loud there are people that never got to see the end of it and they probably hung in there pretty tough, they may even be watching it from Heaven right now ... :)) I'm just kidding there, if they're in Heaven they've already seen THE END.

James Those who haven't seen "Jericho" and would like to (a small group, but maybe not non-existent) will need first to ask if they can accept the existence of a Kansas town so remote that it can witness a nuclear attack on the USA (affecting many cities including the "nearest" - Denver), suffer many consequences this has in causing civilisation to break down, but effectively remain so isolated that: a) the full story of what has happened can only be pieced together very slowly, b) the town is so far down anybody's list of priorities (and hence "fortunate") that it gets left to its own devices for months on end.Many will think that a bit of a stretch (even if - further spoilers - the number of cities nuked across America is large, and the bombs are followed by EMP weaponry, which brings down high-tech and even pretty low-tech).A bit of reassurance here comes from maps. Kansas's western part (and Jericho is miles from Kansas City, Wichita or Topeka)has square shaped counties each covering about 1000 square miles (30 x 30 or so). If you take the 9 north-westernmost counties (Cheyenne, Sherman, Thomas, Rawlins, Wallace, Logan, Gove, Sheridan and Decatur), that's about 9000 square miles, in which you have ... less than 30,000 people. That's 3 people per square mile, but it gets better since about half the people in Cheyenne (for example) are in St.Francis - 1300 people, which leaves the rest pretty empty. 60% of the population in Decatur Co. are in Oberlin, and so on.So NW Kansas is low-population and does have towns far apart, but whether that means Jericho would mostly be left to fend for itself, without knowledge of what's out there, for weeks? That's a huge question, and one crucial to enjoyment of the show.Those with long memories may recall the huge-impact 1983 TV movie "The Day After" - also in Kansas (in fact the eastern part of the state at Lawrence, as well as over the border in Kansas City, MO). The "Jericho" approach is different. Jericho is only just big enough to have a fuel station, small medical centre, fire brigade, school, library, mine, store, mini police presence and so on, though as time passes we seem to see less and less of these, as the series heads off in another direction as it passes the half-way mark. But key characters do enough, and are constant enough, to hold the thing together. There is no bad acting here, but Skeet Ulrich does especially well with the complex and key (and unusual-looking) character of Jake Green, as does Brad Beyer as Jake's farmer buddy Stanley Richmond, and Alicia Coppola as the IRS "big-city" auditor "trapped" in Jericho, whose romantic entanglements with farmboy Stanley are quite irresistible. Mayors old and new played by Gerald McRaney and Michael Gaston also seem plausible as people and in terms of the actions they take.The makers are not fools. They've clued up one (newly-arrived) townsperson - Robert Hawkins (played by British actor Lennie James) - with an inside track on both the events leading up to the attack and (at least a bit of) what's going on in America more widely. Ironically, given this is obviously "the big story", viewers may find it a distraction compared with the often rather microscale events taking place as Jericho comes to terms with its (unknown) fate. Needless to say, the first couple of episodes are dramatic indeed, as they would be in the immediate aftermath of nuclear explosions, but later on we get various "test cases" concerning whether of not things are going to be allowed to "go to the dogs", or whether Jericho is somehow going to remain the organised, reasonable, relatively sedate place it was before. There is naturally a flavour of "Day of the Triffids", "The Walking Dead", "The Survivors" and many other post-apocalyptic scenarios here, but of course Jericho has neither aggressive walking plants and blinded people, nor zombies, nor viruses. But it does have issues: with supplies, food, water, order, the neighbours (yes there are others out there occasionally encountered) and of course that same remoteness issue, as well as winter (Kansas may seem cosy enough on a warm summer evening, even post-bombs, but come the winter it's a dangerous place to be).Hints of the bigger picture are gleaned by we viewers at more or less the same time as the locals gain their insights (Hawkins plot-line excepted) and there are staggering (if typically subtle and underplayed) moments, like when our heroes realise that, just a few miles outside their town, a column of refugees thousands strong has passed through - heading to the warmer south from states north of Kansas with an even more hostile climate. "Jericho" is at its best when it teases us with stories like this, and happily such items come along in the course of the series. Otherwise, episodes can occasionally verge on the "soapy", but - hey - love and infidelity and divided loyalties and first kisses and illness and human frailty and meanness are not just present as ever, but even writ large, in the world this series creates, so can we surprised? As is well-known, "Jericho" only went to a second season thanks to a Star Trek-like coordinated uprising by fans; and this was truncated to 7 episodes. That was a pity, though much better than nothing, and series 2 has a different purpose from series 1. Overall "Jericho" is minimalist, gritty and real (though rarely gory). It occasionally heads close to the limits of plausibility, but remains steadfastly faithful to its premise and does convince overall. At moments it is remarkably powerful (not least when a doctor admits defeat with his attempt to save a key character's life by operating in ludicrously primitive conditions), and most reasonable viewers will not regret making the effort to go through the 30 "food for thought" episodes.

c-westbrook95 What kind of stuff!!!! Who ends the season like that??? Where's the producer? We need to have a big talk! Where is season 3? Someone tell me Netflix is just slow and missed the other seasons? I need to know this stuff! Jericho is TOO good of a series to be missing out on. It will make you go crazy if you are left hanging. Someone.... Anyone... Make a book.. a book series. This is amazing!!! Encore Encore!! I love a mystery, and Jericho really challenged my ability to judge people at first sight. Every episode left me with a dropped jaw, and every scene was so intense!! It was like I wanted to be in the movie taking action, slapping people and saying sorry later, because they where even clueless. I HIGHLY recommend this to everyone of age to watch and understand it.