Jericho

[gianna24]

I've watched the first couple of episodes (available on the website) but I'm not all that impressed. Does it take a while to get good? It certainly seems to have inspired rabid devotion in a lot of people and I want to support it if it's good but right now I'm just kinda meh...

Comments

[yahtzee63]

The show picks up creative steam halfway through the season. The first half of the year, I was only just entertained enough to keep watching, most due to love of Hawkins. The second half of the year, they started hitting it out of the ballpark. There is a sort of "catch-up" special thing they did at midseason; if you can find that, I'd watch that, then just start at midseason. (Which, intelligently, is how CBS is going to start reairing the show in July.)

[gianna24]

Do you know the name of the episode I should start with by any chance?? Thanks.

[yahtzee63]

I can't recall the name of the special, but there's an ep called "Six Months Ago" that goes pre-premiere (and works a whole lot better than you'd think as set up) -- that may not be the first really good one but it is definitely right at the start of when the ball gets rolling.

[bastardsnow]

Definitely agree with Yahtzee. The show really started getting better after it got back from it's stupid-long hiatus. Pretty much once it got rid of the whole "Oooh, these people are spooky" and actually explained why, exactly, we should care about them, it got good.