March 25, 2008

• Adieu, Jericho

  The Professor and I tried to watch this critically acclaimed new show in the fall of 2006.  However, after a couple of episodes, we found it so boring that even the prospect of dangerous radioactive rain falling on the town of Jericho couldn't hold our interest.

  The show was canceled; devoted fans protested; and then CBS revived Jericho for a short season.  Tremor3258 had me watch an episode early in Season 2.  I couldn't believe Jericho was the same television show.  It mesmerized me, even though I could only remember the main character and I couldn't keep the other characters straight.
  

  Tremor3258 was delighted.  He told me that the series really became interesting toward the end of Season 1.

  Of course, my response to Tremor3258's contagious enthusiasm for the show was all it took.  As soon as I started watching Jericho regularly, CBS canceled it . . . permanently.

  I realize that my renewed interest and the subsequent cancellation was only a correlation and not a causation.  But, once a TV show on the verge of cancellation captures my interest, that really tends to be its kiss of death.
   

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