So it’s all over. It was cancelled; it was renewed after a peanut-based fight back; now Jericho‘s been cancelled again, after a second season of just seven episodes.
Was all that effort worth it? Has this last mini-season left Jericho a better show than it was at the end of its first season?
On the whole, I’d say yes.
In the US: Thursdays, 8/7c, ABC
In the UK: Not yet acquired
A third-episode verdict without a first-episode review? What’s going on here?
Well, if certain US networks want to air their new comedy shows so quickly that I haven’t even finished watching the first episodes before the third episodes have come and gone (and the show’s been cancelled in the case of The Return of Jezebel James), what do they expect?
It saves a bit of time, mind.
Anyway: Miss Guided.
Did you like school? Yes?
You jock douchebag. School sucked. Everyone knows that.
Of course, if you knew then what you know now, it would have been so much easier for you to survive its many trials, wouldn’t it? So here’s a question: would you go back to your old High School as a teacher and conquer those demons? And have you really changed as much as you think you have?
I started “Movies You Should Buy” (now called “Movies You Should Own” because I belatedly realise it rhymes with Alex Cox’s old BBC2 film strand, Moviedrome) with The Satan Bug. Lovely “killer virus” movie that – probably the first.
But there was a bigger and better “killer virus” film to come, one that marked the end of many of the trends The Satan Bug seemed to start – or at least coincide with.
The title of this movie, which you should definitely own, is now used by virus researchers whenever they want to put a name to their worst nightmare: a virus that they can’t cure but is utterly contagious and can kill anything in a frighteningly short space of time.
It’s The Andromeda Strain (1971) and it’s probably the best, clever-stupid “killer virus” movie ever made.
Here’s the title sequence, complete with scary arse theme tune.
Just in case you happen to like The Tudors, the first episode of the second season (slightly edited) is now on YouTube for your delectation. Or you can watch it above.
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