Product Description

JERICHO is a drama about what happens when a nuclear mushroom cloud suddenly appears on the horizon plunging the residents of a small peaceful Kansas town into chaos leaving them completely isolated and wondering if they're the only Americans left alive. But in this time of crisis as sensible people become paranoid personal agendas take over and well-kept secrets threaten to be revealed some people will find an inner strength they never knew they had and the most unlikely heroes will emerge.System Requirements:Running Time: 964 Mins.Format: DVD MOVIE Genre: TELEVISION/SERIES & SEQUELS Rating: NR UPC: 097361239149 Manufacturer No: 123914

Product Details

• Amazon Sales Rank: #1329 in DVD
• Brand: PARAMOUNT PICTURES
• Released on: 2007-10-02
• Rating: NR (Not Rated)
• Aspect ratio: 2.35:1
• Formats: Box set, Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Widescreen, NTSC
• Original language: English
• Number of discs: 6
• Dimensions: 1.00 pounds
• Running time: 964 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

Customer Reviews

Good interpersonal drama, so so science in the fiction
I gave this 5 stars even though the science is crap. The characters have depth and the story line has arc. I find that I care what happens to these people. If the people that make the decisions about continuing the series don't realize that this plot can go on for many seasons, they are idiots. There is literally no forseable end to the possibilities.

My one negative obsevation: I'm in medicine and therefore note that there is nothing believable about most of the technical stuff presented in the medicine here. Applying the same principle to other areas where my knowlege is hazy, I believe that there are a lot of holes in the technical facts department. I generally like to have the technical stuff in my science fiction to be largely on target with what we presently know to be true or chalked up to future science. But in truth, things have to be stretched pretty far in a post-apocalypse theme set in essentially present time to be left with a personal connection to the damaged (but repairable) bucolic setting essential to this lovely drama. I belive that an event of this magnitude would leave things much worse that is presented here. There is a great deal of charm to Jericho which is important to the story. In real life, after multiple nuclear detonations in our major cities there wouln't be anything like Jericho to look forward to.

Still five stars.

Highly adidctive
Heard about it from a friend once i started I could not stop watching it very well written and superb casting with beleivable characters intense drama and action love it fantastic work!!!! can we have more please !!!

Jericho
Must see series.....don't let this one pass you by, great acting, suspensful. Gives you something to think about