Ugh. That’s really an awful joke…but it had to be done.
If you’ve checked out our Fall TV Preview, you’ve already read my rave about the pilot for “Jericho,” but in case you haven’t, here’s CBS’s quick description of the series:
Things are quiet and peaceful in small-town Jericho, Kansas, but when a baffling explosion – one shaped suspiciously like a mushroom cloud – occurs in the distance, toward Denver, Jericho’s residents are plunged into social, psychological and physical chaos. No one knows what to think, and fear of the unknown takes over the town, especially because its isolation cuts it off from outside help. When nearly everything they know seems gone, will the residents of Jericho band together to face their unfamiliar and mysterious new world?
There’s no guarantee that the pilot I saw will end up being identical to the first episode that airs tomorrow at 8 PM on CBS, so I’ll be tuning in like everyone else. Like I said in my comments in the preview, the show’s 8 PM timeslot is a little surprising for something as dark as a nuclear holocaust, but curiosity could make “Jericho” into this year’s “Lost.”
Go on. Watch it. You know you want to.
