Jericho
CBS | Release Date: September 20, 2006
CRITIC SCORE DISTRIBUTION
56
METASCORE
Mixed or average reviews based on 44 Critic Reviews
Positive:
19
Mixed:
16
Negative:
9
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60
Wall Street JournalNancy DeWolf Smith
Season 1 Review: "Jericho" doesn't pretend to be artistically risky, but it's got a scary and gripping theme in an age of terrorism and nuclear thuggery. Read full review
60
VarietyBrian Lowry
Season 1 Review: Despite sharp casting, the real trick will be to develop Cold War-style fear while dribbling enough clues to elevate this above being just a post-apocalyptic "The Young and the Restless." Read full review
60
San Jose Mercury News/Contra Costa TimesCharlie McCollum
Season 1 Review: For at least the first two episodes, "Jericho'' works better than it should, and there are some striking moments and images. Read full review
60
SalonHeather Havrilesky
Season 1 Review: The second episode is much cheesier and less suspenseful than the pilot -- nothing quite beats those mushroom clouds in the distance, let's face it. Read full review
60
Los Angeles TimesRobert Lloyd
Season 1 Review: If the Awful Truth of the Global Meltdown is the big carrot "Jericho" dangles before you, it is no more compelling than the question of which of the available good-looking girls Ulrich is going to get close to. Read full review
60
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 1 Review: What you do after surviving the end of the world as you know it is an intriguing premise, and when "Jericho" sticks close to that, it's one of this season's more promising new dramas. Read full review
60
Philadelphia Daily NewsEllen Gray
Season 1 Review: There's something faintly retro about a show that tackles fears many thought died with the Cold War. Read full review
50
Detroit Free PressMike Duffy
Season 1 Review: That morbid premise -- in addition to the so-so storytelling, devolving badly by the second episode -- sure feels morosely overwrought for 8 o'clock. Read full review
50
USA TodayRobert Bianco
Season 1 Review: In Jericho, claustrophobia, paranoia and the threat of nuclear rain are merely an overlay meant to distract us from the mundane nature of everything else the town has to offer. Read full review
50
TimeJames Poniewozik
Season 1 Review: There's something missing from this postapocalyptic drama, namely, a realistic feeling of apocalypse. Read full review
50
TV Guide MagazineMatt Roush
Season 2 Review: The action is fast-paced, the plotting dense, if often simplistic, and the tension generally sustained, as long as you don't overthink the improbabilities of the cover-up over who's responsible for the bomb attacks. Read full review
40
Miami HeraldGlenn Garvin
Season 1 Review: It's an interesting approach, but despite well-drawn characters and the strong cast, there's a sense that the show is trapped in amber, a perfectly preserved relic from another age. Read full review
40
Philadelphia InquirerJonathan Storm
Season 1 Review: There's tons of trouble in Jericho, and that starts with T and that rhymes with D and that stands for dumb. Not flat-footedly, spectacularly dumb, just a little bit too dumb to live up to its premise. Read full review
40
The New York TimesAlessandra Stanley
Season 1 Review: The creators of “Jericho” deserve some credit for beginning where most thrillers end. But they rely too much on melancholy pop music to paper over weaknesses in the writing and characters. Read full review
40
Orlando SentinelHal Boedeker
Season 1 Review: The fall's biggest disappointment. Read full review
40
Newark Star-LedgerAlan Sepinwall
Season 2 Review: On paper, the idea of building a new democracy from the ruins of war while government contractors run amok--in other words, showing what would happen if the reconstruction of Iraq took place in our heartland--is just as strong as the original premise of Jericho. But the execution remains mediocre. Read full review
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