Jericho

I'm about halfway through the first season of "Jericho" on DVD, and I know understand why my friends who were fans during its short run were PISSED when it got cancelled. What a great show! The premise is that various cities across America have been nuked, leaving small town Jericho, Kansas cut off from all communication from the country and world and struggling to survive. It takes a pretty freakin' good show for me to compare it to the greatness of "24" in its best seasons (1, 4, 5), but I think it stands up to the test. It's suspenseful, scary, stressful, shocking, and entirely addictive (whoops, messed up my stellar alliteration).

I hate knowing that I only have half of season one left and a meager two discs or so of season two. At the same time, though, I can see how a show like this could become ridiculous and repetitve after going on much longer than two or three seasons (ahem, Prison Break? Heroes? Lost?Are you listening?). Most of its appeal is probably in the initial intrigue of the first season. But who knows...it could have stayed great. We'll never know. Rest in peace, Jericho, with your other comrades felled too young: Arrested Development, Freaks & Geeks, My So Called Life, Pushing Daisies, etc.

Those of you who have Netflix or Blockbuster Online, definitely add this to your queue.