masonroberts88 This show is terrible. Luke Perry is a terrible actor, Malcolm Jamal Warner is a little better but hes hard to believe as a survivor type. It's no wonder this show only lasted two years. The underscore sounds like it was made by looping a bunch of Celine Dion extra material from the movie Titanic. Way too much dramatic musical score, always trying to evoke emotional reaction from a show that lacks substance. Now they play Jeremiah on my favorite channel Comet instead of all the great seventies sci fi and horror that they usually play. I guess the royalties are so cheap that they thought they'd give it a shot? I hope Comet stops replaying this garbage show. Its not even comically bad, its give you a head ache bad.

zee Far better than the half-dozen network TV shows that try to show a post- apocalyptic world, this is still not perfectly imagined.Here's the central premise: a plague has wiped out everyone over the age of puberty, all at once, leaving children 0-12 to find their own way. 15 years later, they've done amazingly well. I suspect there'd be a little more Lord of the Flies behaviors in such a situation, but here, not only are the people reasonably happy and well-adjusted, everything in this world looks organized, only mildly dirty, and fairly well engineered.Moreover, the casting and the stories keep forgetting the central premise. Luke Perry looks 40-something (he wasn't quite that at filming but looks older), yet the oldest person alive should be 27, and no way can he pass for that. One can imagine that almost none of the infants alive at the time of the plague would have survived (having only traumatized orphans to find and mince food for them), so people from the old times should be 17-27 and their post-plague children 0-12. But clearly older actors abound and you'll get a plot where a stated 16- year-old has a father. Huh?Plot-wise, good (if damaged) guy Perry and his sidekick (whose personality shifts about in season 1) meander around in a surviving automobile, never running out of gas, and which they seem to know how to drive at once without any chance for training at that skill, and they have episodic adventures that reminded me of the old Incredible Hulk and Fugitive series. (Guy arrives at new town each week, meets someone with a problem, helps him or her solve it in 45 minutes of screen time, drives off into sunset at end of show.) There's an overarching narrative, too, involving various groups trying to set themselves up to rule a greater number of people, but mostly this episodic plot, developing an emotional connection for the leads to a girl or child, and after someone has made the Big Speech, the leads drive off into the sunset. While that's not original, it is an appropriate choice for a P-A series, as it gives us a chance to look at how various dystopic groups that may have formed. It would have been interesting had they occasionally driven into town, mis-assessed the situation, and hurt more than helped, but the show's writers played it safe and kept to the formula.For a world in which technology is dying and the knowledge needed to keep it going mostly forgotten, it sure keeps popping up a lot. Cars, gasoline, bullets, helicopters, running water, short-wave radios, whatever a plot needs, the tech is there, but precious little time is spent suggesting that there are people working at figuring these things out and keeping tech working. Admittedly, that's not very exciting stuff to show, but an occasional added reference would make the wider world more believable, as would more awe from the natives at their arriving in a working car. Nor do you see a lot of farming, which would be what 99% of people do 99% of the time. Still, it is far less cloying and unrealistic than the networks' attempts at PA stories, and it's pleasant to hear cursing, frank talk about sex, and even some atheism (without growing up with religious training, surely most people wouldn't be). And the leads are almost always wearing the same clothes and don't look overly well-scrubbed, for which I give points.I got bored so didn't watch the second season; this is a review of the first season only.

james-collett Okay, so I am going to repeat here some of what I have posted already in the discussion forums, so apologies for the repetition.This show continues to draw favourable and lucid comments, four or five years after its demise. That has to say something good, I think.In my view it is a real shame that an intelligent show with such a potential story arc was not allowed to flourish, while the nonsense bubble-gum shows seem to go on forever.J. Michael Straczynski (JMS) got hosed with Crusade too, didn't he? That was a show that took a while to warm up but it had built quite a clutch of characters and subplots by the end of Season 1 that you just knew a second season would have been worthwhile, from a story-telling and artistic point of view.After the success of Babylon 5, you might think that the TV companies would learn to trust JMS just a little bit to deliver the long-reach payload of characters and story-telling that is needed for a several-season run.The Intelligent Audiences are out there (I want to believe) and while they may not be the biggest audiences they are probably the least fickle. But no, the snotty-nosed execs who have inexplicably been given the helm clearly are keen only to leap-frog from one quick buck to another, giving up on the long-term dividend.A TV show is just an TV show, I know, but I really felt for the story that was Jeremiah. I read about it at the IMDb web site and found out that he show had been axed prematurely. Yet, knowing this, I took the time to get hold of it, because the concept was so cool from a sci-fi point of view and the reviews were so interesting. So I watched it all (in late 2008 and 2009) - and then, even, knowing in advance all that I knew about the abrupt ending of the partnership between JMS and MGM, I still felt irritation as I reached the final episode of Season 2, because I knew it could have been so much more and because so many threads were left dangling.The writers clearly did a champions' job of bringing the story to a sort-of close, but they left a whole lot of questions unresolved, presumably because of the possibility of a third season after the departure of JMS. The long passage of time, now, since the end of Season 2 hammers the last nail in the coffin of hope for such a reprise, and we are left with what one might call an unfinished masterpiece.Jeremiah was one of the most compelling sci-fi dramas that I have ever seen. (And I did not even know much about Luke Perry beforehand!)Addendum 2009-09-12I'd like to add something. I don't want to take away anything of what I wrote above. I do appreciate, however, that my initial review comes across as a bit of a whinge.What I would like to add is that I think that the series Jeremiah had heart - a whole lot of heart. It built structure, it built plot and it made story arcs and depth that could have been mined easily in a third series. But most of all, it had heart and depth. I really felt for these characters. I mourned (in as much as one does for fictional characters) for those that died and I felt pain with those that were left behind with their various losses.I appreciate that the formula of the show required something new in each episode, but it would have been nice to have seen the reprise of a few of the earlier story lines and if various characters from earlier episodes had turned up again. I suspect that these production considerations might have been given oxygen had the series survived into a third season.Despite my criticisms - and I have a few - this is a series I would recommend to any serious sci-fi fan. It has heart, you feel for the characters and you want the best to turn out for the good guys.This show is not an easy ride. It is quite adult in places, which restricts its audience, but it is a great ride and deserves to be counted among the Classic, Kick-ass Sci-Fi shows. Is there such an accolade? There should be.

kazaadude2000 The general theme gives the potential for a whole world of plot possibilities. The characters are very engaging, specially the buddy thing going with Jeremiah and Kurdy (Perry and Warner). Marcus, Mr. Smith, Lee, Erin ... all the characters were interesting. Even the extras, or the bad(?) guys. It's not just about surviving ... it's about moving on, hope, and building a future. Most of the time, it didn't come out too preachy, but JMS shows somehow tend to be that way.Each season has an underlying plot that connects the episodes together, but each episode has it's own story. It has a powerhouse season ender for the 1st season, and a powerhouse opener for the 2nd season. I liked all the episodes, although the last episode of season 2 (of the series, in general) felt rushed, as the writers knew they had to end the season abruptly.Acting was pretty good, but sometimes (not often), the dialog seems a bit corny, which makes it tough to act out with credibility, hehehe.I was real disappointed that this wasn't renewed, while more shows with much less story to tell last pretty long. This is an excellent show that not enough people watched. If it somehow gets a 3rd season, I'd continue watching it. :)