all you people saying this show sucks will keep on watching. lololol

I agree. These cheesy "we're running out of time" scenes really bring the show down.

And those teenage refugees from Dawson's Creek need to go.

I'm not saying the show sucks. I just wish it was better. I'm hoping it will turn out like last year's "Invasion". That show started out poorly, and lots of people on this board were complaining. But after 6-7 episdoes things just started to click, and it turned into one of the best series on TV.

I was bored so I made one based on my bad memory of what it looked like, slightly modified to include the Homeland Security logo at the bottom:

Small:


800 x 600:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...ull/homsec.jpg

1024 x 768:
http://i95.photobucket.com/albums/l1...l/homsec-1.jpg

I finally watched the entire episode last night (I was bored...)

Ya... I was tuning out a lot of it, the Lifetime music was driving me nuts.

I'm very confused as to why they'd turn on the feed of the podium minutes before anyone walks up to it. That just doesn't make sense.

On those big dishes - you get the broadcast feed to the local stations. It is the local stations that go to commercials and start and stop the program.

I remember watching network tv and seeing Letterman talking to his guests during a commercial break, or the news guy shuffling papers getting his makeup touched up.

Seriously, someone needs to kill off all those teenagers, the bar maid, the cheat she's sleeping with, and Hawkins' family.

If they do all that, and add some zombies and some suspense, the show will be better.

Now we know Skeet's been a bad boy. Maybe the blasts were all his fault.

I can't see them making Skeet a "bad guy." He's done too many good deeds to be evil, plus he's the lead character.

Maybe Hawkins and his coup-minded buddies will try to take over the town in future episodes and Skeet will turn the townspeople into some kind of militia to fight them. I'll hope the teens get offed -- except the weird kid and his cell-phone-charging friend, whom Skeet trains to be killing machines.

Don't kill off the Hawkin's Family!
Figuring out what he's up to is probably the only thing that keeps me coming back.
I need a show or two that I can rip apart each season..a few years ago it was 'bobby and lindsay' towards the end on The Practice. This season, it's this show and Grey's Anatomy.

I'm using it.

What hurts most about the show is how they're squandering a good premise, along with a pretty good cast.

Here's a video clip of one of their writers' sessions, which sort of explains everything:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aUos-PCDT5Y

Believe it or not, not everyone hates this show, as the ratings would show. Why is everyone doing so much threadcrapping?

I thought this episode was better and I enjoyed it. The last two were leading me down the path of scratching it, but it now has some renewed potential.

I don't hate the show. I'm just frustrated with it. I want stuff to happen. I want the kids to die horrible deaths because they're all a waste of space. I want skeet to turn into a radioactive zombie. I want Sparkle Motion Woman to get her just desserts. I want radical religious fanatics to show up and start taking people out for being sinners. I want full-scale rioting and anarchy. And it would be nice if they'd do away with the filler parts of the show, like the cheating husband, and that annoying IRS chick. Focus on something interesting, like that black dude and his clandestine operations.

You keep watching to see if anything happens, but it never does. You just get little tidbits at the very end of the show. In fact, you can string together the last five minutes of every episode and have one really good 30 minute episode. But no. They have to torture us with Lifetime Channel crap. This is why I wait till the next day to watch OnDemand, just so I don't have to slog through commercials. At least I get some satisfaction that way.

This show is just a big cock tease with no real indication it will ever deliver on the goods, yet it keeps tantalizing everyone in the last 30 seconds of every episode. Now tell me that isn't frustrating.

Well, the show better come up with something soon or they will be losing their audience. A 30 second bait ending won't work forever...

The writers of Jericho should have taken a few pages from A Gift Upon the Shore. Now there was a good view of apocalyptic post nuclear society. Plus gangrene.

That's what's missing. Gangrene.