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The more I watch this show, the less I'm liking it....
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
Another sucko outing. It's like they are purposely making it awful. The concept alone should have carried them for at least a season and instead we get 1% cool bits and 99% meaningless bullsh1t like community corn harvests, horse-rustling and library fires, all shot with the old-fashioned sloppiness of a "Diagnosis: Murder" episode.
This show is getting to the point where it almost takes more effort to make it suck as hard as it does. And somebody really needs to kill that bearded brother guy, just for looking like a stupider version of Peyton Manning --if that's even possible.
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
Honestly, last night's was groan-worthy. It has declined each week. And can somebody explain the jarring cut from missles flying over their heads to two weeks later!!!!?? What was even the point of that?
For being sick for over 2 weeeks the mayor doesn't look too shabby. It almost seems like they explained all of the mystery regarding Hawkins already. And it seems Jake's mysterious past is nothing more than melodrama.
Ugh. I'll try again next week. We'll see.
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
This show doesn't know what it is. I liked it for the first 2 episodes and since then, it's been on a fast decline.
Doomsday scenarios with a Movie of the Week feel don't mix, man. It's like the first two episodes were completely untouched and everything else was rewritten a billion times under the nose of a network exec.My God, it's full of stars!Comment
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
I suspect the show-runner fired the whole writing staff and is keeping their checks for himself. He is simply spending ten minutes a week tweaking new pages from a stack of old "Walker: Texas Ranger" scripts he found in a dumpster.
Because if there were other writers, someone would have wondered what planet this "the lead family also has a ranch in the same town that has never been mentioned til now" clusterfvck came from.
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
It also looks like the suits are rewriting Skeet's character. NOW they tell us he was involved in some kind of killing that resulted in him leaving town? Beh. No wonder McRainey's been ill. I would be too with this mess.Comment
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
When this was a post-apocalyptic drama starring Gerald McRaney, I was psyched. Now that it's The Waltons, and McRaney's virtually absent from the show....
I think I'll give it another episode to explain more about Skeet's past or Hawkins' secrets...then I'm out.
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
You can almost set your clock to when the cheesy, intense music will kick in. When I saw the mother trampled by the horses, my eyes hurt from rolling them.
Ele...Comment
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
Also, what's the story with those random 2nd cam/insert shots that look they were shot with an old VHS camcorder?
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
I'd missed an episode or two, and when I watched last night's I was: "Ouch. Even the fact that this series stars Peyton Manning (funny one, Unidos, but true) can't disguise the slide in quality!"
If they bring in Reggie Miller as an atomic mutant though ... AND get back to some real, darker "America After The Terror Came Again" drama ... I'd watch. It started well. Seems like some good series are turning bad exceptionally soon, this year, as pointed out.
Really: how many written episodes does a series start out with, written if not shot and completed?
You'd think there'd be half a season of great eps that got the series bought in the first place ... before the steam ran low and frantic production schedules or something started to decrease the quality. I wouldn't buy a series that I saw nose-dive these few episodes into the run ....sigpic
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
Gave it a chance but meh. Not worth my time anymore and as mentioned here, this is going downhill real quick. Wouldn't be surprised to see it pulled off unless CBS' execs continue to smoke that bad crap during meetings.
Interesting concept that went FLOP.A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
"Aisatsu Yori Ensatsu"
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
Well, we're definitely getting a full season guys. And strangely the ratings have remained the same since its debut. I'll try a few more before deciding to stop or not.
Ele...Comment
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
That's the problem, isn't it?
Give it a go for a couple more and see you have wasted your time OR see that for some reason, it became a kick ass show that pulverized glories like BSG, Prison Break or Heroes.
I'll just stick with the 3 mentioned and read what's happening here. It was a cool start though. Too bad.A talent for drama is not a talent for writing, but is an ability to articulate human relationships.
Gore Vidal
"Aisatsu Yori Ensatsu"
Money is better than compliments.
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Re: Jericho 10/25/06
The absolute worst part of last week's show was the throw away line from the guy they tossed in jail at the end of the episode:
"You know he's coming don't you?" or some such crap like that!
The effort to build suspense is juvenile at best. It's like the writers decided no one had any reason to come back after that horrible episode so they added the teaser line at the end. Awful!
Also, I observed that the men cast in this show are all pretty good and the women are HORRIBLE! It's weird to see such a dramatic gulf between genders in a show. Could anyone care less whether the tax woman lives or dies!?
And for God's sake, quit trying to get her to cancel the IRS audit you hick! Half the country has been nuked!
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