I watched the pilot episode of this "Jericho" show thinking it'd be a new take on the Jericho series that aired in 2006 but instead it's something totally different. What a bummer.
Really had high hopes for some reason. :-/
According to this article, there really was a shanty town called Jericho:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Settle-Carlisle_Line
Another article says that the shanty towns (which housed the 6000 navvies required to build the Settle to Carlisle railway) were named after Crimean War victories, well-to-do districts of London and biblical names (Batty Green, Jerusalem, Jericho and Belgravia, etc.). The programme's makers could have chosen any of these other names, but Jericho has a great, and possibly portentous, ring to it - alluding to it's temporariness, perhaps?
Here's a rather nice description of the railway today:
http://www.independent.co.uk/travel/travel-rail-journeys-more-than-just-englands-prettiest-railway-1258556.html
I had no idea of the difficulties associated with building a railway across such bleak and isolated terrain. If nothing else, this series will give me an added appreciation. A trip on the railway is now a must for me when I next visit the Dales.
If there aren't any skeletons in a man's closet, there's probably a Bertha in his attic.
Actually the name Jerico was given to the movable camps that the navies used during the building of the British Canals net work and then during the building of the British rail road system.
They were described at the time as hell on earth and the investors gave them a very wide berth.
And mainly tents and not shacks as shown in this utterly rubbish show.
The only females there were in these camps were local camp followers or as the should have really been called Prostitutes.
This programme is more full of holes than a Swiss cheese so far.
The Railway Mission was a way of trying to civilise the workers on the permeant way gangs.
The towns and village's along the route of the work lived in fear of the laborious coming in to their hamlets.
But in most cases the prostitutes and liquor sales persons won every time.
The Labourers were paid daily and sent the money in the liquor tent as soon as they got it.
The reason they got paid daily was because of the high mortality of the workers.
One can only hope this pile of cr~ap ends soon as it is a complete joke.
They have managed to get every thing wrong in just one episode.
And Jennie the lead actress can't act her way out of a paper bag.
She plays the same character in this as well as call the muddled wife wife and shirt lifter and tuppence.
To attempt other wise would probably lead to a nervous break down on her behave.
http://www.outofoblivion.org.uk/record.asp?id=406
http://www.cumbria24.com/eden-valley/2013/07/23/ribblehead-shanty-town-walks
http://www.independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/tv/features/the-true-story-of-the-railway-workers-shanty-towns-that-inspired-itv-s-jericho-a6808266.html
If there aren't any skeletons in a man's closet, there's probably a Bertha in his attic.
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Really? You were looking for more post apocalyptic tripe? Try Into the Badlands or Fear the Walking Dead or ... Gosh there is plenty of that same plot, but I'm glad you found IMDb.com to help you through your confusion...
Give this a go, you might just find something you enjoy in a story of actual struggle.