Jericho premiered on the CBS network and garnered a somewhat small but dedicated viewing audience. When the show got cancelled by CBS it was the fans who rallied and pulled a Family Guy by sending the studio items and letters and basically harassing them until they put the show back on. Surprisingly CBS caved and Jericho got its second season, so now we have season 1 on DVD as the studio tries to grow its audience for the show before the second season premieres. I must first state off that I am a LOST fan and have been since the very beginning, so with every new show that attempts to mooch off the LOST formula I feel a sense of joy when they get cancelled. * * *

The LOST formula is as follows: group of people with deep and complex pasts, some unexplainable phenomenon, mysterious events, and cliffhangers. In a nutshell that is what Jericho is too. You have a group of people in a small town who survive a nuclear attack, they don't know what the cause of it is, character tensions become high, they must protect themselves from outsiders, and pretty much the similarities go on. Is Jericho entertaining? Yes, it is. Is it a good show? That can be argued. It's pretty much a cult hit and I don't it's going to garner up new viewers with the second season. What CBS is likely to do is to let the writers find a satisfying conclusion for the fans before it's off the air permanently. ---

Image & Sound:

Paramount gives us a release with anamorphic widescreen and 5.1 audio. The image is pretty great. Paramount usually never has compression issues with their sets and the shows look better than when they aired, unless you watched them in HD. The sound mix is equally as good as it does what a standard 5.1 mix should. ---

The commentaries on the disc are a great way for the creators and actors to communicate the story behind the show to the fans. The Building Jericho featurette is your standard DVD feature with cast interviews and audition tapes. The What If ? - featurette is actually dedicated to the look at the nuclear arms race since WWII and what would happen if an attack happened today. Rounding up the package is a set of deleted scenes. One other thing to note is that some episodes on this set have been edited and some music changed from the original network airings. I'm guessing this was done due to copyright issues.

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