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Audience Rating: Suitable for 15 years and over
Binding: DVD
EAN: 5014437938336
Format: PAL
Label: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Languages: EnglishOriginal Language
Manufacturer: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Number Of Items: 6
Publisher: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)
Region Code: 2
Release Date: March 10, 2008
Running Time: 910 minutes
Studio: Paramount Home Entertainment (UK)

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Editorial Review:

Amazon.co.uk:


Part-Lost, part-The Day After, this television 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 (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. He isn't welcomed back by his former girlfriend, Emily (Ashley Scott), who is 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 much 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 neighbours. 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 centre 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 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






Rating: - Dont bother
All i will say is....cardboard acting very poor subplots that dont make any sense,seems that the lead actor always turns up the ever unsurprised hero and annoyingly cuts to the next scene with 2-3 second blackouts,no flow whatsoever,dont waste your hard earned money on this rubbish!!

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Rating: - Don't believe the hype
If you Like "Lost", you are going to be sorely dissapointed

There was a sticker on the DVD series 1 box "Like Lost? You'll Love This"

I've loved pretty much all the series I've bought from Amazon that get 4 to 5 stars. But the action in this is about as good as East Enders and the acting/plot as strong as an night watching Big Brother.

This series is hyped up by a small group of fans - and you may find you like it. But it really is nothing as good as Lost, ... Read More

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Rating: - Not Lost, but not found either...
I like Skeet Ulrich and, seduced by nice box design, I had high hopes for this series. Which weren't exactly dashed, but it didn't really deliver either.

The box is stickered-up (in the UK) with "LOST" comparisons but, frankly, other than it being survivor orientated nothing else is remotely similar. The 'mystery' somehow lacks much interest. I found that I never really cared about who had blown-up the cities and, in fact, it's pretty much revealed halfway in. It lacks the surrealism ... Read More

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Rating: - The best show ever!!!
If you enjoyed anything from "Heroes" to "Lost" this is a programme you'll love just as much if not more. Once I started watching it I couldn't stop and anyone I have recommended it to have found the very same! It's got it all... thrill, romance, threat, intrigue... something for everyone. It made me laugh and cry. The acting is incredibly realistic and you won't be able to help forming attachments to each character. Just give it a go... you won't be disappointed.

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Rating: - Pure, unadultered (and unbelievable) schmaltz
I had high hopes for this series based on the reviews, fan-boy following the series has and the concept. Unfortunately this suffers from the usual over-production endemic to US series - the photography is colourful and bright, interiors look like they featured in a magazine, everyone is beautiful, everyone's teeth are white and hair coiffured, and no-one is remotely believable.

The first episode was well done and gripping and I thought "this is going to be good like everyone says". Sadly ... Read More

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