Jericho - The attack
| Television series | |
|---|---|
| German title | Jericho - The attack |
| Original title | Jericho |
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| Country of production | United States |
| original language | English |
| Year (s) | 2006-2008 |
| length | 43 minutes |
| Episodes | 29 in 2 seasons ( list ) |
| genre |
Science fiction drama |
| production |
Jon Turteltaub , Stephen Chbosky , Carol Barbee |
| music | David Lawrence |
| First broadcast | September 20, 2006 ( USA ) on CBS |
| German-language first broadcast |
June 4, 2007 on ProSieben |
| occupation | |
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Jericho is a dystopian television series , produced by CBS , that shows how people of today's society (2006) in the fictional American town of Jericho, Kansas (according to a statement in the first episode, almost 5,000 residents), shortly after a nuclear weapon explosion in a post live and survive apocalyptic world.
action
Jake Green ( Skeet Ulrich ) comes back to his rural hometown Jericho after several years of absence to sort things out. Shortly after leaving the location, a gigantic mushroom cloud appears in the Denver area . Cut off from any communication with the outside world, without knowing what happened and without further support, all the residents of Jericho are on their own. As the series progresses, it emerges that over twenty cities across the country have been attacked, including a. Washington , where the President was just now. At first, it remains unclear who carried out the attacks. Towards the end of Season 1, it turns out that terrorist groups led by a senior homeland security officer named Valente carried out the attacks. The first season mainly deals with the problems that arise immediately after the nuclear attack. The supply of both residents and refugees must be ensured. The fight against a private mercenary company and against a neighboring city is much more problematic. In the season one finale, the military of a rump state plan to take control of Jericho.
A political power struggle has broken out in the USA after the attacks. The president, vice president and other senior officials are apparently dead or incapable of acting. The President's successor should be the surviving Minister of Health , but several politicians have announced their claim to leadership. The country is therefore divided into six regions, each with its own capital and president.
The second season deals with the conflict between the citizens of Jericho and the increasingly dominant occupying power. Together with a company consortium, to which Jennings & Rall also belongs, the military can restore order and basic services, but civil rights are increasingly restricted. In addition, the Ravenwood was the very same mercenary unit with which the residents of Jericho have already fought several skirmishes with dead on both sides. In the final episode of the second season, the first shots of a civil war between the Republic of Texas and the forming alliance of several states, which work closely with an opaque company consortium, are fired.
Special aspects
Jericho follows the tradition of other end-time dramas such as The Day After , The Last Testament , Threads , Amerika or The Red Flood : How do people, integrated into the security and comforts of modern civilization, behave immediately after a nuclear catastrophe? Here, too, is the focus of Jericho. After the loss of all infrastructures , the supply of energy and food , all communication, and ultimately the collapse of civilization, man shows what is left of him. There are also certain parallels to Stephen King's novel The Stand .
Characters
Gray Anderson
Gray Anderson is the political opponent of Johnston Green and candidate for mayoral in the upcoming elections, which he also wins. Later he often consults with Johnston Green and is grateful for any support.
- Actors: Michael Gaston / dubbing voice: Claus Brockmeyer
Eric Green
Eric Green is the son of Mayor Johnston Green and Deputy Mayor of Jerichos. He is married to April (played by Darby Stanchfield ), but the marriage suffers from problems as Eric Green has an affair with the bar owner Mary Bailey and separates from April out of love for Mary, who is expecting a child from Eric, which he is first later learns.
- D: Kenneth Mitchell / S: Martin Halm
Gail Green
Gail Green is the wife of Johnston Green . She used to work as a nurse and can therefore also make herself useful in the local hospital when a man is needed.
- D: Pamela Reed / S: Dagmar Dempe
Jake Green
Johnston Jacob "Jake" Green, Jr. returns to Jericho after a five-year absence. He tells different stories about what he has done in recent years: playing baseball in the minor league , serving in the Navy and Army . In the course of the series, however, it turns out that Jake has carried out orders for mercenary units (including Ravenwood) in Iraq and Afghanistan . Shortly after leaving town, he sees a mushroom cloud in the direction of Denver . In the second season he becomes Sheriff of Jericho at the suggestion of Commander Beck, whose 10th Mountain Division resolves the conflict between Jericho and New Bern.
Jake Green and Emily Sullivan (the daughter of Jonah Prowse) are a couple in Season 2.
- D: Skeet Ulrich
Johnston Green
Johnston Jacob Green, Sr. has been Jericho's Mayor for 25 years, but loses the mayoral election to Gray Anderson . He is the father of Eric and Jake . In the last episode of the first season he is killed in the battle against the neighboring city of New Bern.
- D: Gerald McRaney / S: Christoph Jablonka
Robert Hawkins
Robert Hawkins forced his family to move to Jericho just before the nuclear weapons explosions. He poses as a former St. Louis police officer and allegedly had training at the United States Department of Homeland Security because of the September 11, 2001 terrorist attack . However, he later pretends to be an FBI agent. In the course of the first season, however, it turns out that Hawkins as a CIA agent has something to do with the attacks.
- D: Lennie James / S: Matthias Klie
Heather Lisinski
Heather Lisinski is a Jericho elementary school teacher with a great technical understanding. She travels to New Bern with some acquaintances and is then considered dead. In the last episode of the first season she wakes up in a military camp and asks the commanding officer to help the citizens of Jericho in the fight against New Bern.
- D: Sprague Grayden / S: Angela Wiederhut
Bonnie Richmond
Bonnie Richmond is Stanley's younger sister . She is deaf , can lip-read and speaks American Sign Language . She is killed in an argument with Ravenwood in Season 2
- D: Shoshannah Stern / S: Nina Kapust
Stanley Richmond
Stanley Richmond is a farmer who lives with his deaf sister, Bonnie, near Jericho. He's a good friend of Jake's . He is one of the men who go to New Bern and bring important information from there to Jericho.
- D: Brad Beyer / S: Philipp Brammer
Mimi Clark
Mimi Clark is a tax auditor who comes to Jericho on behalf of the government to audit farmer Stanley Richmond's finances . Since she is stuck in Jericho after the attack , she needs food and accommodation. She finds both with Stanley Richmond and his sister Bonnie . For this she works in the household of the Richmond , albeit reluctantly at first. In the course of the series, Mimi Clark and Stanley Richmond develop a relationship and she comes into close contact with the people of Jericho . The two even think about getting married. She also takes part in many of the series' events, making her a resident of the city. In one of the first episodes, she also learns that her family, who lived in one of the cities destroyed by the attacks, was most likely killed there.
Emily Sullivan
Emily Sullivan is Jake's former girlfriend . After Jake's disappearance, she got engaged to a successful banker (Roger), who returned to Jericho with a group of around 50 refugees around the middle of the first season. However, he is forced to leave Jericho because Gray Anderson is shot during a scuffle with Roger.
- D: Ashley Scott / S: Claudia Lössl
Dale Turner
Dale Turner is an outsider with no friends. He works at Gracie's Market , a supermarket in Jericho. His mother is killed in the Atlanta explosion. He later became one of the beneficiaries of the situation and came into possession of the Jericho Salt Mine.
- D: Erik Knudsen / S:
Charisma
The first season of Jericho started in the US on September 20, 2006 and ended on May 9, 2007.
In May 2007, CBS initially announced the cancellation of the series, but due to a large fan campaign to save the series, CBS announced on June 6, 2007 the sequel to the "Mid-Season". Since the first season had ended with the word "nuts" (in the sense of "crazy"), the fans had been asked over the Internet to send nuts to the station. Around 20 tons of peanuts arrived at CBS, which then announced it was broadcasting a second season, but asked that no more nuts be sent, please.
The second season consists of seven new episodes and started in the US on February 12, 2008. On March 21, 2008, CBS officially announced that the series had been discontinued due to the ratings, which were on average below those of the first season . So the series finale ran on March 25, 2008.
ProSieben originally announced that it wanted to broadcast the second season, but interrupted the series on August 20, 2007 and up to this point only showed 14 of the 22 episodes of the first season. The publication rights to all episodes of the first and second season were later assigned to kabel eins , which has broadcast the series in double episodes since March 25, 2010. The German pay TV broadcaster Syfy has shown all episodes of the first and second season since January 11, 2010.
DVD release
The first season of Jericho has been available in German stores since August 7, 2008. The first season of Jericho with all 22 episodes was published on a total of six DVDs in 16: 9 format and has a playing time of 911 minutes.
The second season of Jericho was released on June 18, 2009 in German. Like the first season, the second season is only released from the age of 16. There is also an alternative ending on the DVD as an extra, which should be broadcast if the broadcast is more successful.
continuation
On March 12, 2009, the comic book publisher Devil's Due Publishing announced that the story of the series would be continued in comic book form. The first of six episodes appeared on November 25, 2009. The season ended with the publication of an anthology of the first three issues and the missing three episodes on May 29, 2011. The story comes from the pen of the producers and screenwriters of the television series.
In August 2011, a 144-page anthology of the six episodes under the name Jericho Season 3: Civil War was published by IDW Publishing .
The fourth season, comprising five issues, was released on August 15, 2012. It continues the events of the third season. The author of the volumes is Kalinda Vazquez, who was supported by the writers of the television series. An anthology of the five issues will be published on March 25, 2014 under the title Jericho Season 4 .
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- ↑ USA Today.com: "Online 'peanut' gallery resurrects 'Jericho'" accessed June 6, 2010
- ↑ Jericho: Start of the second season in February
- ↑ Jericho: CBS is canceling the series
- ↑ ProSieben also broadcasts the second season
- ↑ ProSieben interrupts broadcasting after 14 episodes
- ↑ DWDL.de: Daring: kabel eins has slot for "Jericho
- ↑ German Sci Fi Channel shows «Jericho» from January
- ↑ Serienfanatiker.com: Jericho on DVD from August ( page no longer available , search in web archives ) Info: The link was automatically marked as defective. Please check the link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
- ↑ Devil's Due press release ( Memento from March 19, 2009 in the Internet Archive )
- ↑ Jericho Continues As Comic ( Memento of the original from January 2, 2013 in the web archive archive.today ) Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. ". DWSciFi.com, March 10, 2009. Retrieved on March 10, 2009.
- ↑ Ryall Time: JERICHO Returns! . In: News Article . IDW. Archived from the original on May 28, 2011. Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ↑ IDW Publishing Store lists Redux, 4, and 5 . In: Shop Listing . IDW. Archived from the original on July 26, 2011. Info: The archive link was automatically inserted and not yet checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. Retrieved May 29, 2011.
- ↑ Jericho Season 3: Civil War (graphic novel) . IDW. Retrieved November 15, 2011.
- ↑ Archive link ( Memento of the original from January 18, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice.
Web links
- Jericho - The stop at the Internet Movie Database (English)
- Sequence overview for series abc