GMMR Getting the Inside Scoop on “Jericho”
September 19, 2006 by Kath Skerry
CBS just sent me the first two episodes of their new drama Jericho – just in time for me to attend a Jericho press conference tonight. I know many of you have not seen the show, but if you have and you have any questions, leave me a comment and let me know.
I’ll be back tomorrow with the scoop on the first 2 eps, as well as the news from tonight’s press conference.
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I have been looking forward to this series since I heard about it. I like Skeet Ulrich in a skanky/sleazy/sexy sort of way, and he’s from this area (and how can you not love a man named Skeet?). Plus, when I was younger, one of my deeper neurosis involved worrying incessantly about the threat of nuclear war, so….I’m not saying it was healthy, I’m just sayin’ that’s the way I was. Anyway, I’m looking forward to hearing about the show.
LT – It’s pretty funny that you said that, because I JUST had that very conversation with my friend at Fatbackandcollards.com. We were just talking about being of the age where we used to worry about that stuff.
Okay, but the most burning question of all: GMMR, are you going to see Skeet in person?
No such luck. It’s an online press conference.
Still! You are moving up in the world. Online press conferences one day, in-person the next, and Emmys the next. It’s a gradual stepladder! 🙂
Interesting note on Jericho if you hadn’t seen it – since the show is set in Kansas, an artist in Lawrence, KS did some cornfield art for the show. There is an article about it with a picture of the cornfield here: http://www.kansan.com/stories/2006/sep/11/jericho/
Don’t get me started on the annoyance with yet another show representing all of Kansas as a bleak farming community that inexplicably gets hit with a lot of atomic bombs, ala’ The Day After…
Skeet is skanky and that’s why we love him. We’re dirty birds. I posted a pic of him from the online press confrerence over on my site.
The shows just okay in my opinion.
I’m right there with you loadedteapot. The Day After, Terminator and Red Dawn (et al) had me scared shitless when I was a kid. Hollywood went to great lengths to make us feel like the “button” could be pushed at any second during those years. Conspiracy? Remember when “the bomb” meant something entirely different? I just expected to be shopping at the Piggly Wiggly one day and see mushroom clouds on the horizon and fighter jets flying over. Maybe that’s why I’m such a badass now. I came to terms with the nuclear holocaust fears and came out swinging. Now I just don’t like tall buildings. Or Subways. Ah shit. I need a hug.
That is too funny, GMMR and fatback. I honestly thought I was the only one worried about stuff like that when I was little. In 5th grade, right at the height of my panic (I was reading The Diary of Anne Frank at the time, which didn’t help matters any), my 5th grade teacher, in the context of some lesson, told us that if the Russians launched a nuclear weapon, we’d only have 15 minutes to mount some sort of defense before the missile hit. I was beside myself. I thought, “DO OTHER PEOPLE KNOW ABOUT THIS, AND IF SO, WHY IS EVERYONE SO CALM?” Every time I heard a plane overhead, I was convinced that the end had come and we were being air raided.
Now I feel better, because I don’t feel like I was so alone. But maybe I shouldn’t watch the show, good or bad. I still have plenty of unfounded fears about other things inside, and there’s no use in dredging up bad memories if I can help it, right?