Has anyone been watching the new show Jericho on CBS Wednesday nights? It is a TV series about a town in Kansas that gets cut off from the outside world when a nuclear bomb destroys Denver. What's worse is that they come to realize that other cities have also been destroyed. What follows is how this All-American town deals with their bleak situation.

I am flabbergasted that this is actually a topic for a prime time TV series. It's dark and scary, but at the same time very hopeful when it comes to how a community can pull together in an extreme crisis (probably too hopeful). Regardless, I have watched the first two episodes now and am hooked. It is only one of two typical TV shows I watch regularly (I am basically a Comedy Central guy these days).

This series does not seem anything like typical 3T fare to me. Thoughts??

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

Has anyone been watching the new show Jericho on CBS Wednesday nights? It is a TV series about a town in Kansas that gets cut off from the outside world when a nuclear bomb destroys Denver. What's worse is that they come to realize that other cities have also been destroyed. What follows is how this All-American town deals with their bleak situation.

I am flabbergasted that this is actually a topic for a prime time TV series. It's dark and scary, but at the same time very hopeful when it comes to how a community can pull together in an extreme crisis (probably too hopeful). Regardless, I have watched the first two episodes now and am hooked. It is only one of two typical TV shows I watch regularly (I am basically a Comedy Central guy these days).

This series does not seem anything like typical 3T fare to me. Thoughts??

It feels like 1957 to me. It may be the naivete of the small town at play here. It certainly isn't as Progressive as the show on NBC this year which is a sort of X-men for Everyman in which Xer-Millennial Cuspers and Millennials save the world in a Prophetic manner. Boomer (art done under the influence of soporifics, etc. -- I would hope that someone like the Great Meece or the Mr. Xenakis is weirdly mentoring these Millies) means for Millennial ends is at play in Heroes.

The young in Jericho are whinging Crowns of Creation as cyphers. One uses a Colt Revolver to shoot a cop/convict (can you get anymore 1950's than that?) that was so Bonanza-- I like the change of the Celestial Hop-Sing into a differently abled 'Merican woman.

Both these shows are better than the aliens from space that invaded the Networks last fall.

Jericho seems a remembrance of the Crisis from the following High. It's a backward glance. Heroes is a late Unravelling Progressive peering into the Coming Crisis, it's as multi-culti casted as Jericho is an Aryan Nation. It's Red Zone in one and Blue Zone in the other. People in Jericho had actually been to church, but we didn't have to have that actually dumped into our media rooms as a visual.

On a personal note I like the fact that Bovine-Americans were put out of harm's way in Jericho even though they didn't get any actual airtime.
Heroes had real Bovine-South Asians; but they were just local color.

Originally Posted by Virgil K. Saari

It feels like 1957 to me. It may be the naivete of the small town at play here. It certainly isn't as Progressive as the show on NBC this year which is a sort of X-men for Everyman in which Xer-Millennial Cuspers and Millennials save the world in a Prophetic manner. Boomer (art done under the influence of soporifics, etc. -- I would hope that someone like the Great Meece or the Mr. Xenakis is weirdly mentoring these Millies) means for Millennial ends is at play in Heroes.

The young in Jericho are whinging Crowns of Creation as cyphers. One uses a Colt Revolver to shoot a cop/convict (can you get anymore 1950's than that?) that was so Bonanza-- I like the change of the Celestial Hop-Sing into a differently abled 'Merican woman.

Both these shows are better than the aliens from space that invaded the Networks last fall.

Jericho seems a remembrance of the Crisis from the following High. It's a backward glance. Heroes is a late Unravelling Progressive peering into the Coming Crisis, it's as multi-culti casted as Jericho is an Aryan Nation. It's Red Zone in one and Blue Zone in the other. People in Jericho had actually been to church, but we didn't have to have that actually dumped into our media rooms as a visual.

On a personal note I like the fact that Bovine-Americans were put out of harm's way in Jericho even though they didn't get any actual airtime.
Heroes had real Bovine-South Asians; but they were just local color.

There is definitely some refreshing corniness to it. Definitely not 3T fare. But wouldn't 1T fare portray a more effective authority. And having a young woman yield the above weapon doesn't smack of 1T either, at least not to me.

What I see is a cynical world suddenly getting very serious. It comes across to me as a 3T to 4T transition.

Originally Posted by Zarathustra

There is definitely some refreshing corniness to it. Definitely not 3T fare. But wouldn't 1T fare portray a more effective authority. And having a young woman yield the above weapon doesn't smack of 1T either, at least not to me.

What I see is a cynical world suddenly getting very serious. It comes across to me as a 3T to 4T transition.

I watched a bit of Jericho and had an impression similar to Mr. Saari's. Not really my cup of tea.

As for 1T sci-fi and authority, think of Vonnegut, P.K. Dick or Alfred Bester -- definitely similar in their visions of a malign, incompetent Authority. Not my cup of tea either -- I prefer the more 3T-ish Gibson, Stephenson or Gaiman. I have Heroes on the DVR; I'll get around to it probably tonight.

Last week the town of Jericho was provisioned with Progressive Histories of the latest Re-Visioning. That a show would have both Clio and cattle in't must make it the best of all possible shows.

3T/4T?...no idea LOL
however Jericho ROCKS!!!