Jericho
But as Fraulein Maria liked to say, "When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window." Unfortunately for CBS, that window happened to be their mailroom. Bombarded with peanuts of nearly every shape and treatment, the CBS executives were forced to reconsider canceling the post-nuclear world drama after only one season. This came as joyous news to those who stuck with the show through the "don't ask about the EMP" and drinking-poisonous-iodine-tincture days in order to revel in the Awesome Days. The Awesome Days gave us such events as Hawkins threatening torture, Hawkins taking on New Bern, Hawkins handing out his hoard of guns, Hawkins being Hawkins, and Jake making everyone cry while also being generally quite Awesome himself.
It was sad to say goodbye to Mayor Dad and somewhat sad to say goodbye to April, but we still have nearly every other Jerichoian growing beets in their bathtubs and continuing to make substantial withdrawals from the secret candle bank while they struggle to survive and understand why a bunch of bombs went off all over the country.
Meanwhile, season we have these things to look forward to: More Jake and the Black Man, Heather's return, and finally figuring out what that damn new flag means. -- Keckler
Kidnapped
When your grandchildren come to you years from now and say, "Grandma or Grandpa, whatever the case may be, tell me about the Great Serial Drama Glut of Aught-Six," you should first admonish them for wasting your time with such foolish requests. Then, you can point to Kidnapped as the embodiment of all that was wrong with the multitude of serial dramas cluttering up the 2006-07 schedule.
Oh, it's not that Kidnapped was bad -- it was actually quite good, with solid production values, yeoman performances, a compelling storyline, and the sort of engaging abduction drama that the just-as-serialized but not-nearly-so-entertaining Vanished could only dream of. No, the problem with Kidnapped can be summed up by three little letters -- N-B-C. Showing the kind of programming wisdom that leads to things like "Michael Richards! His own sitcom! Make it happen!", the glittering jewel of the Sheinhardt Wig Company corporate empire panicked when viewers for Kidnapped didn't materialize, canceled the show, and shuffled it off to Saturday nights so that loyal viewers could at least see how the truncated first season played out. But after a week of that, NBC called yet another audible, yanking Kidnapped off the air entirely and slapping the remaining episodes on the internet. (Over the summer, the network would show the full series, but only in the wee small hours of the morning, mixed amid infomercials and "Sober up, ya drunk" PSAs.)
By The TWoP Staff
Jericho
But as Fraulein Maria liked to say, "When God closes a door, somewhere he opens a window." Unfortunately for CBS, that window happened to be their mailroom. Bombarded with peanuts of nearly every shape and treatment, the CBS executives were forced to reconsider canceling the post-nuclear world drama after only one season. This came as joyous news to those who stuck with the show through the "don't ask about the EMP" and drinking-poisonous-iodine-tincture days in order to revel in the Awesome Days. The Awesome Days gave us such events as Hawkins threatening torture, Hawkins taking on New Bern, Hawkins handing out his hoard of guns, Hawkins being Hawkins, and Jake making everyone cry while also being generally quite Awesome himself.
It was sad to say goodbye to Mayor Dad and somewhat sad to say goodbye to April, but we still have nearly every other Jerichoian growing beets in their bathtubs and continuing to make substantial withdrawals from the secret candle bank while they struggle to survive and understand why a bunch of bombs went off all over the country.
Meanwhile, season we have these things to look forward to: More Jake and the Black Man, Heather's return, and finally figuring out what that damn new flag means. -- Keckler
Kidnapped
When your grandchildren come to you years from now and say, "Grandma or Grandpa, whatever the case may be, tell me about the Great Serial Drama Glut of Aught-Six," you should first admonish them for wasting your time with such foolish requests. Then, you can point to Kidnapped as the embodiment of all that was wrong with the multitude of serial dramas cluttering up the 2006-07 schedule.
Oh, it's not that Kidnapped was bad -- it was actually quite good, with solid production values, yeoman performances, a compelling storyline, and the sort of engaging abduction drama that the just-as-serialized but not-nearly-so-entertaining Vanished could only dream of. No, the problem with Kidnapped can be summed up by three little letters -- N-B-C. Showing the kind of programming wisdom that leads to things like "Michael Richards! His own sitcom! Make it happen!", the glittering jewel of the Sheinhardt Wig Company corporate empire panicked when viewers for Kidnapped didn't materialize, canceled the show, and shuffled it off to Saturday nights so that loyal viewers could at least see how the truncated first season played out. But after a week of that, NBC called yet another audible, yanking Kidnapped off the air entirely and slapping the remaining episodes on the internet. (Over the summer, the network would show the full series, but only in the wee small hours of the morning, mixed amid infomercials and "Sober up, ya drunk" PSAs.)