I regret to inform...

yea, i found the cancellation a bit odd... i would have thought Jericho season 2 would have been a nobrainer

Maybe in bizarro world...

I just wonder... if there will be a reality soap about Paris in Prison instead. You crazy Americans...

I'm not surprised one bit that it got axed. I really wanted to love this show. And as a result, wound up watching almost the entire season, despite the fact that I really did not like it that much. I guess the idea of what Jericho represented was a very sound idea on paper. Execution on the other hand was another thing altogether as unfortunately, too many of the episodes just put me to sleep. Most of the characters were stupid and spent all their time doing one little stupid thing after another. That is really what seemed to drive the show; fixing up behind everyone's stupidity.

It was really a great idea and it had so much potential, but at the end of the day, it fell short-way short on delivering on any of that potential. Better luck next time.

personally I gave up watching it during the mid season break.... but i got the impression it was a lot more popular than it apparently was...

Jericho might get 'closure', but what that means is the big mystery.

Read here

At the request of a good friend who is a big fan of the Jericho, I just caught the last six episodes. And I honestly have to say that the show gets exponentially better during the last quarter of the series. I started out by watching episode 17 and was honestly left with the feeling that I had to watch the next episode to see what came next. This is something that I was not expecting from Jericho, as the show has never delivered that level of punch before.

So I watched episode 18 . . . which led me to needing (not wanting, but actually needing) to see the next episode. The long and short of it, is that I wound up watching the last six episodes of Jericho in one sitting, virtually glued to my seat. Finally the show finds it's voice and delivers the punch that I had expected from it all along. I was overall, really blown away and was only wishing the entire season had played out on the same level the last six episodes have played out. I could easily see where if they could keep up this pace for most of the season, Jericho would rival shows like 24, and Prison Break and Heroes and Lost and BSG - the final episodes really were just that good. They make watching the rest of the dreg that made up the season really pay off big time and left you with one of the best season finales all year. By the end, Jericho really becomes the show that I always thought it should be.

It's really a shame now that Jericho has finally found that umph that it needs to be a truly great program, that it gets canned - talk about your irony. Take my reaction as an example. I posted before (above) about how much the show put me to sleep, and now here I am posting a complete 180 opinion of the show. Now before you think I am bi-polar or something, do not take my new stance as a retraction of my earlier statements; they are not. Most of the season was needlessly drawn out and boring to the point of tears. Just that the final six episodes have shown Jericho for what it could/should have been - and even goes beyond that a bit, by almost redeeming in full the rest of the season. It's a pity that now that things have truly grown worth salivating over, Jericho is no more. I hear CBS as a favor to Jericho's apparent legion of fans, is going to film some sort of something that will wrap up the show. It is a very nice gesture that I have only seen a very small handful of times ever in US TV history. If whatever they put together is every bit as good as those final six episodes . . . I'm gonna cry Jericho did not get picked up for a second season.

If whatever CBS has planned to wrap the show is any good, then I may find myself purchasing Jericho on DVD. Really, those last few episodes are really that good - they make the whole story work and when you see it as part of a larger whole, Jericho actually becomes pretty good . . . even if most of the first 2/3 of the season is a bit of snore.

or for a more comprehensive overview of the nuts thing:

http://www.jericholives.com/

It seemed to suffer from "Invasion" syndrome - stretching too little plot over too many episodes, thinking that a second series was inevitable. So in the end, a programme which is occasionally amazing but too often slow and directionless gets cancelled. Let this be a lesson to all shows which think they can stretch half a series of plot over a full series.

Jericho saved - read here