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Jericho - The First Season | 
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| Actors: Skeet Ulrich, Sprague Grayden, Asley Scott, Gerald Mcraney, Pamela Reed
Studio: CBS DVD/Paramount Pictures
Category: DVD
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Rating:  184 reviews
Sales Rank: 8434
Format: Box Set, Closed-captioned, Color, Dvd-video, Widescreen, Ntsc
Languages: English (Original Language), English (Subtitled), Spanish (Subtitled), Portuguese (Subtitled)
Rating: NR (Not Rated)
Number Of Items: 6
Running Time: 964
Aspect Ratio: 2.35:1
Shipping Weight (lbs): 1
Dimensions (in): 7.7 x 5.6 x 1.6
MPN: PARD123914D
UPC: 097361239149
EAN: 0097361239149
ASIN: B000SQFC2C
Release Date: October 2, 2007
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Product Description
Studio: Paramount Home Video Release Date: 10/02/2007 Run time: 960 minutes
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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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the best show ever made December 2, 2008
Finally a show that makes Americans look good instead of that sea of other shows starring us or portraying us as backstabbing, over-conforming, know-nothings. T&A or violence is not what this show was about and that's one reason why it got cancelled(the people that kept "baywatch" going for 10 seasons weren't watching), the other reason is there is a big anti-american bandwagon full of people that don't want to see a show about Americans pulling together and helping each other during a major crisis. Whoever cast this show deserves some kind of academy award, with everyone doing their best especially Gerald Mcraney, Denny Smith, and Skeet Uhlrich (no more the pretty boy Brad Pitt/keanau Reeves type non-actor he used to be). I'm surprised more women didn't take to this show with all the soapy drama going on in it. Jericho left a big impression on me and I'm looking forward to a movie or miniseries in the near future.
 If you think 9/11 was carried out by the US government, this is the series for you October 25, 2008
0 out of 2 found this review helpful
The writers bob and weave during the first season, but their true intentions come out during the second. The series is kinda like 24, but with an all-American cast of villains. Conservatives, Karl Rove, Halliburton and Blackwater - all are caricatured. If you want to see a live action version of the conspiracies detailed in Mother Jones, the Nation and In These Times, this is your mini-series.
Wonderful show!! October 22, 2008
0 out of 1 found this review helpful
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.
WOW! October 16, 2008
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.
 Smallville without the monsters... September 28, 2008
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.
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