Jericho - The First Season
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Movie Reviews of Jericho - The First Season
Movie Review: Wonderful show!!
Summary: 5 Stars
You will not be disappointed if you buy Jericho!! I was hesitant to start watching it, but after I started, I became an instant addict. This show has a little something for everything -- drama, comedy, romance. It is wonderful. Movie Review: WOW!
Summary: 5 Stars
How did I miss this series?! This is one of the only action TV shows I've seen that takes such care with characters that you feel as if you've known them all your life. You genuinely care for these people. In the small town of Jericho you'll find the heart of America. And LOADS of entertainment.
BEWARE: You can't stop watching once you begin.
Movie Review: Smallville without the monsters...
Summary: 3 Stars
I like Skeet Ulrich and, seduced by nice box design, I had high hopes for this series. Which weren't exactly dashed, but it didn't really deliver either.
The box is stickered-up (in the UK) with "LOST" comparisons but, frankly, other than it being survivor orientated nothing else is remotely similar. The 'mystery' somehow lacks much interest. I found that I never really cared about who had blown-up the cities and, in fact, it's pretty much revealed halfway in. It lacks the surrealism of Lost, with its weird non-sequiturs and bizarre coincidences and, most importantly, it lacks Lost's fabulously diverse, if frequently irritating, characters. It simply does not have the intensity or charge of that programme.
If I was to compare it to anything I'd say it was more like Smallville, but without the monster of the week and the special powers. It has that same homely small-town feeling, and the romances and in-family bickering are very reminiscent, with Jake's parents being a sort of real-life equivalent of Jonathan & Martha. I found that while a few characters were likeable (the IRS Mimi, Jake himself, Dale, and, best of all, Hawkins) there wasn't really much to compel you through it.
It's relatively 'realistic', for TV, but there were still little aggravations, like everyone burning upwards of 30 candles at any one time in their living rooms and none of them old stubs. Always lovely fresh new candles every time. How many candles would a small town have? With every family burning 30 a night, and an average of three days or so as a maximum burn time for a pillar candle, I reckon they should have run out in the second week. Likewise they were always b*tching about petrol (gas), but no-one ever hesitated to jump into a vehicle and dash off. And don't even start me on the tank, which they had in a barn and didn't pull out to use till the last minute, even although they were under threat of imminent invasion.
These things could have been overlooked if it had offered more intrigue but, bordering on pedestrian as it was, it only served to highlight the series' failure to engage. Good enough, but not great. And life's too short to watch something that isn't great.
Movie Review: Excellent!!!
Summary: 5 Stars
Excellent condition and quality. I was very pleased with the reliable delivery time and condition of the item. Movie Review: A Solid exploration for the unimaginable event against mankind.
Summary: 5 Stars
I loved this show from the first minute I saw it. At first, I was thinking it was going to be similar to the many other post-nuclear movies (i.e. "Damnation Alley" with George Peppard). I was quite pleased with the attention to detail as it was related to the science of the main theme as well as the social consequences of that type of attack.