CNN tells me that Jericho, which was cancelled last May due to low ratings then – in response to viewer protests – brought back for a probationary seven-episode mini-season, has been cancelled again.
They just couldn’t pull in the viewers, it seems.
I’m not surprised – the recent episodes seemed a bit unfocused, as if the writers had a bunch of interesting characters & scenes they wanted to get in, but didn’t have a clear idea of how it all was going to fit together.
There’s only one episode left; perhaps they’ll manage to wrap everything up into an audience-satifying package, but I doubt it.
I enjoyed Jericho, but it did get a little frantic once the “army” moved in. It felt like the show wanted to go one way but the writers wanted another. I guess we’ll never know now…
There was a bit of thrashing around in the final seven episodes, as they raised and dropped various plot threads.
And I get the feeling that the writers wanted to end the series with a really pithy comment from Jake Green, in response to Hawkins’ “What does it feel like, to make history?”, but they couldn’t come up with anything.