The tone of this piece of shit is that the American public trusts the government!
The MSM never stops shoveling shit, do they, readers?
"'Jericho' too cynical for the times?"
"by Joanna Weiss, Globe Staff | March 27, 2008
In the series finale of the post-apocalyptic drama "Jericho," in an offhand conversation, a couple of characters voiced one of the show's underlying points: Don't mess with the Second Amendment.
That's notable not just because it's a departure from typical Hollywood politics, or because the episode aired shortly after the Supreme Court heard a landmark case on the right to bear arms. It also speaks to an ongoing theme of the show, the notion that the government can't always be trusted.
Since I don't watch the program, I did not know this.
And if that doesn't sound especially radical, think of how it was received by viewers. Even amid an unpopular war, in a country with no shortage of cynics, a show this doubtful of the government's intentions can't seem to draw a mainstream audience.
Yeah, like we all would believe the shitter government!
What this really says it we don't want to watch a fictional program when we are LIVING the REAL THING!!!!
That's why Hollywood's five-years-late war movies aren't going over well at the box office.
We have had enough of the real thing!!!
That, and the fact that network and cable t.v. sucks rat shit!
"Jericho," which ended its run on Tuesday, did have a small, fervent base of support, but it never managed to break through. The show was canceled for low viewership by CBS last spring, then resurrected for a seven-episode trial run after fans sent nuts to the network offices.
Oh, I see.
If you are passionate or feel strongly about something, you are nuts according to this objective piece of dogshit journalist!!!
Unless, of course, you are passionate about invading countries and warring for Israel.
That kind of enthusiasm is just fine!
(It was a reference to a we-won't-back-down slogan in the show, as well as to the Battle of the Bulge.) This season's arc - which drew even fewer viewers than last year's episodes - played out as a cautionary tale about the perils of a government that gains too much power.
Think the lying MSM might be lying to us about the ratings?
I think this show got junked because it CUTS TO CLOSE to the TRUTH!!!
Like HBO's brilliant "The Wire," which ended its fifth and final season this month, it was one of few TV shows to take a decidedly cynical view of the people in charge.
And being a good, 'murkn shit-eater, there is no way I could believe that!
Most of the time, on TV, we get the opposite message.
Yeah, TELL ME ABOUT IT!!!!
The detectives, lawyers, and forensic scientists of the enduring "Law and Order" and "CSI" incarnations are universally good. The fighting forces of CBS's "The Unit" sacrifice greatly to save us all. Even the corrupt cops on FX's "The Shield" are softies at the core, skimming off the top to pay for family essentials, such as private-school tuition for autistic kids.
Yeah, I know all about how the MSM sells us shit!!
And though each season of Fox's "24" has its fair share of government high-ups gone bad, the traitors are always exceptions, destined to be caught.
That's how you know it is t.v. and not real life; in real life, the traitorous scum are never held accountable and the government IS the villain!!!
To the end, "Jericho" made no such promises. If "The Wire" was a real-time look at corruption and fatal compromise in Baltimore, "Jericho" was a worst-case-scenario fantasy, spelled out with intriguing detail. It began with a dread attack: 23 American cities destroyed by nuclear bombs.
Oh, was it "Al-CIA-Duh" in the t.v. show?
Or did they find someone else to blame?
And the point of this program, readers?
To get the public prepared for such an event!!!!
Just like torture, so when they see it happening to them they can say, "Oh, yeah, I saw that on t.v., duh!!"
It asked what would happen next from the perspective of regular folks, represented by the good-hearted citizens of a Kansas town.
This season, the good people of Jericho were occupied by an army loyal to a corrupt pretender government, which was intertwined with a Halliburtonesque company called Jennings & Rall.
Oh, man, that is WAY TOO LIFE-LIKE!!!
NO WONDER the show got scratched!!!
This ain't no fantasy island of Lost, this is TOO CLOSE to the TRUTH!!!!
The small-town heroes had proof that the government was covering up the true source of the attacks, and may have had a hand in the plot. (In a nice touch, they had to prove their case to Texas, which had formed an independent republic and revived its Alamo spirit.)
Translation: The show KNOWS about 9/11!!!!!
Yes, there were elements of crazed conspiracy theory here, but the premise wasn't entirely unrealistic; the vision of an encroaching military was clearly built on fears of post-9/11 government overreach in the name of national security.
Yeah, we are all just a bunch of "crazed conspiracy theorists."
Well, at least we aren't a bunch of LYING, ENABLING and COLLABORATIVE shitbags like the MSM!!!!
I personally am sick of the fucking insults and shitstink elite dismissals.
If YOU DID YOUR JOB and INVESTIGATED SOMETHING -- anything -- then I WOULDN'T NEED TO BE HERE, shit-fuck press!!!!!!!!!!!
So FUCK YOU and your fucking INSULTS!!!!!!!!!!!
They shit on the blogs, but WE ARE THE ONLY ONES PAYING ATTENTION to this shit!!!
That's why I hate the MSM now!
Bunch of lying, agenda-pushing assholes!!!!
Maybe because this season was so short, "Jericho" didn't fully live up to its what-if potential. The show ended up going the easy "24" route of fingering a single, dastardly mastermind.
Who was it, Dogshit Dick Cheney?
(Could it be an accident that he was played by Xander Berkeley, who was prominent in the early seasons of "24"?) And despite considerable pressure, the core of regular folks got through with their principles intact.
There is where you know it is t.v. again!
It is a SYSTEMIC PROBLEM here in AmeriKa!!!!
Still "Jericho" didn't end on an entirely happy note. The finale offered a hint of what would have come if the show had won a third season: a civil war between the forces of good and corruption, and a decent chance that corruption would still prevail. Perhaps it's no wonder it got so few takers; on TV these days, we still prefer to focus on the good.
Speak for yourself, shitbag!!! I want the TRUTH!!!!
I hate television because of the shit they shovel!!!
This proves they are nothing but agenda-pushing shit-shovelers!!!
It's much easier, after all, to sell a show about charitable giving or cheerful redemption, preferably set to uplifting music. On ABC's "Dancing With the Stars" the other night, contestant Steve Guttenberg gushed about how nice this show was for America. And on "American Idol" this week, on-the-bubble contestant Kristy Lee Cook made a decent effort to have save herself by crooning Lee Greenwood's uberpatriotic "God Bless the USA." That song has a widely perceived Second Amendment message, too. It's just a message that doesn't require quite so much thinking."
Yeah, that's what the AmeriKan shit-eating public wants, huh?
Something that "DOESN'T REQUIRE SO MUCH THINKING," 'eh, MSM shit-fuck?
Yeah, DUMBING YOU DOWN big-time, and INSULTING YOU, too, American shit-chomper!!
So HOW'S THE BOWL of SHIT TASTE, 'murkns?
Lot better than that WAR DEAD you can FEAST UPON, huh?
Oh, and FUCK OFF, shit MSM!!!!
You guys fucking suck shit!!!!!!!!
