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About 5 episodes in, this show desperately needs better writing

posted 11 years ago by msmont-814-450272
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It's really a pretty good concept of a show. I would love to see what AMC or HBO would have done with a show like this. Jericho really stands out as what is wrong with most mainstream network shows. Every character is a cookie cutter, none of the situations are realistic. Everybody looks like they are having a great time, parties, laughing at the park, hanging out in a bar and ordering some wine. Even small details, all the girls still have makeup on and guys are tucking in the shirts. I know it's small town, but really no one is worried about looting or survival. It's almost hard to believe that this was made after 9/11. I'm guessing that the show runners just want to get to the big reveal of whatever the conspiracy is and are hoping that the anticipation of that reveal will just carry the show for the entire season.

It just overall needs some grit that you can't find on CBS.

[–] fragile_day 11 years ago

Stick with it. It gets better. The show really hits it's stride half way through season one.

Not that there's anything wrong with that!

[–] JakeFromJersey 11 years ago

^^
What he said.

The producers did a lot of retooling of the show during it's mid-season break. It comes back my darker with the "feel-good" moments down to a minimum.

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Leave the gun. Take the cannoli.

[–] victor-200 10 years ago

Actually, I got exactly the same advice on this board after posting almost exactly the same topic. The show was pretty bad after five or six episodes.

When I did "stick with it," the show got progressively worse. I finally gave up around the twelfth episode. My head would have exploded, I think if I had "stuck" with it more. From reading the posts on this board, the show definitely devolved into an utterly disorganized, confused, implausible mess. The longer it was on, the worse it got.

Terrible writing, terrible acting.

''I'm fortunate the pylons were not set to a lethal level."

[–] tatrue 11 years ago

I agree with your comment!

Spot on.

"I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day." -Douglas Noel Adams

[–] SkinlessPeen 10 years ago

Wait till you get to the episode when skeet skeet is stuck under a truck for 43 minutes. I normally dont spoil but he is literally stuck under a truck for 43 minutes.

The writers killed this show. They wrote season 1 like they were going to get 4 or 5 guaranteed. Way Waaaaayyyyyyyyy tooooo slow. If the 7 episode pace of S2 was applied to the original season it would have never been cancelled.

[–] Rvrgm 10 years ago

Actually, the idea that people would hold on to the norms of life (like using money, hanging with friends at a bar, etc..) is pretty realistic. Where the show begins, people know that the outside world has fallen, but there in Jericho very little has actually changed, so it makes sense they would have a "continue life as normal" attitude. As the show progresses, supplies start to become limited, winter sets in, the show gets much bleaker … this construct is actually one of the few things that really worked for the show.

That being said, indeed it does "not" get better in the sense that the terrible writing, cookie-cutter characters, and too-easily-wrapped-up situations never change. My wife and I have only 9 episodes left and its a struggle to continue to the end. Maybe this show seemed better 8 years ago before shows like Walking Dead and Breaking Bad started blowing up … but today, it's just too clean-cut and simplistic .. it's like SMALLVILLE meets RED DAWN...