Jericho: Pilot Episode
What a wonderful place Jericho is, it’s like the idyllic small town. The perfect place to meet the apocalypse? Or perhaps the sort of place that would have you wishing you’d been incinerated instead?
Jake Green (Skeet Ulrich) returns home after years away to claim his inheritance and try and put his life in order. Encountering old acquaintances who ask where he’s been he responds with a different answer each time, so it’s clear he has a secret past. After failing to get his money from his father, the town’s Mayor, he heads back to the big city. And that’s when things get a bit more interesting. But only a bit.
After the opening ten minutes of family squabbles and a soundtrack that suffers from a severe case of bland rock overkill, I was starting to lose interest. Thankfully, this is when a nuclear explosion goes off destroying Denver. Not that I have anything against Denver. It’s just that if that hadn’t happened, I think I might have fallen asleep.
After checking that the radiation is below danger levels, the Mayor organises a search party for his son and a missing school bus. He attempts to calm the concerned parents only to be told, “That’s easy for you to say, you don’t have a child out there.” Cue clichéd cut to Jake.
