This show is so damn boring...
I appreciate the acting, the production values, the sound design, but goddamn, it's just tediously boring.
What a lovely way to burn...
That is because you are watching the first episodes. I told people this show is awesome but it DOES start off slow but that was the point.
shareI dont know why people say this is boring or saying it starts off slow. I think things went pretty fast. I mean the first episode was the bombings, how is that starting off slow?
It starts off slow as you are forced to be basically a citizen in Jericho. You have no idea what is going on as far the US is concerned so it does start slow. Because the first 15 episodes is basically Jericho trying to piece WTF is going on with the federal government and the season 1 kicks off once the Jericho-New Berns war starts to unfold.
shareI found it interesting. I mean who wants to sit through a show that they already know everything about...oooh, i guess you do. awkward!
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oooh, are you butt hurt?
lmfao sorry, but i dont know anyone who wants to know everything that happens. that makes it boring. why even watch a show or movie if you know whats going to happen every second.
Because you do not know what is going to happen in the show, it just is slow at first and then picks up.
shareright, how does that make it boring? I thought it was interesting from the start. he comes home and he's saying he's been all these places and we dont really know the truth, that makes you want to know more. then the bomb happens and we dont know who did it, where it really happened or what is left...that makes you want to know more.
how is that boring? lol
I never said it was boring, I said it was slow like you. It does help to actually read what I type.
shareright, lol i know exactly what you said. But the post made said it was boring and usually when someone comments its basically towards the person who made the post.
but sure, we can pretend I'm slow and that I was really responding to you. Whatever makes you happy. lol
Or you can spread your butt checks and let me take a leak.
shareThat's what I liked about the beginning of the show actually, that you didn't know exactly what was going on. Especially with the explosion and mushroom cloud suddenly appearing. I like a bit of mystery in a show.
shareI almost forgot that 3 years ago maya sheep were using the atrocious term "butt hurt" lmao, only in america!
shareIt starts off slow as you are forced to be basically a citizen in Jericho. You have no idea what is going on as far the US is concerned so it does start slow. Because the first 15 episodes is basically Jericho trying to piece WTF is going on with the federal government and the season 1 kicks off once the Jericho-New Berns war starts to unfold.
Yeah exactly. I fell in love with this show by the end of it, but the first 2/3 of season 1 were really slow. Frankly I think it's pretty clear that most viewers agreed too, which is why the show had such low viewership by the time it ended the first season. The story was finally getting good at that point, but it was too late to survive. But yeah I can't even see how you could argue the first several episodes weren't extremely slow. I mean the first four episodes were entirely just within a few days of the attack and all about just surviving the fallout and whatnot. Frankly I could care less about them all having to migrate to the dam mine to hide through a rainstorm, or having to rush fuel between one building or the other.
It's really a shame because this show had such amazing potential as proven by late season 1 and all of season 2, but like so many other shows they spent far too much time just introducing things that by the time they finally started moving on, so had most of the audience.
If you don't want to be spoiled, you shouldn't be here in the first place.
Well what killed the show during the first season is exact what we were talking about. Almost every other showing around the world did NOT even get to the Jericho-New Berns War due to low ratings and after season 1 ended in the US, CBS cancelled the planned 2nd season due to low ratings which is weird because the show got good once New Berns declared war.
Personally, I did not discover the show until the episode Semper Fi because it looked boring as well and I put it on to run background noise so I can play Command and Conquer Generals and I decided to listen in once the "Marines" talked about nuking Iran and N. Korea.
Yeah I didn't even know anything about it when it was new, but I watched the series on Netflix a while back. When I did I basically just decided right off the bat to watch through the whole thing just to see what all the talk was about, but if I hadn't heard it was so good I would have probably stopped after about half the first season. I was watching and after the first few episodes it was really obvious to me why it didn't last. By the end though I was like "wow this got really good!" Again though, by the time it had reached it's full potential most of the audience had lost interest.
If you don't want to be spoiled, you shouldn't be here in the first place.
It really the downfall of TV shows that do this because the American people are so stupid and do not know what a good story is. They like *beep* to be fast and dramatic which is the opposite of what Jericho was telling us. It is slow, good, and makes a very good point about the US and what CAN happen.
shareThat's been the case with a lot of shows -- Low ratings, due to timeslot issues and audience following. A television show of Jericho's quality is good, but it gets it's following in a cult-icon type status. I think TV Guide or IGN (Don't skew me, haven't read that list in a long time) had it as the #11 best "top cult shows". Fanbase isn't as big as it could be, but damn, Jericho's audience was loyal to the core and made it very well known.
shareI have been unable to find a "serious" TV show to replace it and if it ever does see a third live action season (doubtful) I bet that too, will be canned again.
shareHuh! You know, I started losing interests when the Jericho-New Berns war started to happen and then the two factions of the U.S. and the United State of Texas? Cheyenne Mountain...
I love the show and have watched it many times right up till that point. I like seeing the complications of when the lights go out, the little things we never thought of, and also the curiosity of the way the global affairs affected Smalltown, USA
Later it became a Faux News story with jumbled facts and plot lines that were a train wreck but delivered with the mindset of "walk fast and look worried" and it will be perceived as very important
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The show didn't get enough time to deliver the story it wanted. This is the problem with networks, they want results now. Jericho would of thrived if it was given the same boat Walking Dead had because Walking Dead takes forever to tell a story but once it gets going, it thrives but of course they follow a standard ten episode season. Jericho in my opinion needed more time to tell a story but CBS wanted network ratings in order to make the show be profitable from their point of view.
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