‘Jericho’ Nuked, but…
CBS announced that one of my favorite shows, Jericho, will not be returning for a second season, which really sucks. All things considered, the final episode last week wasn’t a bad place to end the show. There are loose ends (like a nuclear weapon still buried underneath someone’s tool shed), but I’m not too distraught. What does burn me is the CBS decision to replace Jericho with a new reality show titled Kid Nation. In Kid Nation, 40 eight- to 15-year-olds are charged with creating a community in an abandoned ghost town. Now before you go comparing the show to Lord of the Flies, let’s point out that the producer of Extreme Makeover: Home Edition is behind the kiddie city show. That means Piggy doesn’t get killed, but whines a lot to the camera. Is that good TV when...
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On Everwood
It was the mother who first believed in Everwood. As a little girl she gazed out at the small Colorado town, her train stopped because of snow, and that place became a part of her. She believed in Everwood, not as a patriotic fanatic, but as if God had made this place for people like her–for people like her husband Dr. Andy Brown and their two children Ephram and Delia. Dr. Brown took his family there after his wife, his children’s mother, died in a car accident. The world famous neurosurgeon fled from Manhattan to the place his wife loved so much, keeping the one promise he was last able to keep after years of broken promises and missed opportunities. And so it was, this doctor would have to mend his relationship with an estranged 16-year-old son and raise...
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