If they'd had that kind of exposure, without modern medical care, many of them wouldn't have lived longer than a miniseries. I like Jericho, mostly because I'm a sucker for post-apocalypse fiction, and it really has gotten better. I got a little dizzy being beaten with the exposition anvils in the first couple of episodes. Let's face it. I'm still watching 24. Clearly massive errors of fact are not going to deter me from watching. I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Jericho reminds me of Alas Babylon, making me all nostalgic for that type of scifi and almost completely removing fact-checking from the circuits that are active when I watch it.

Alas Babylon is one of my favorite books, and I thought of it also in connection with Jericho.

I didn't read it until the 80s, and that gave it a surreal quality it didn't, I imagine, originally have. I'm quite unreasonably fond of it.

I like watching Jericho the way I like watching Dawson's Creek. But saying it's better than it was last fall is kind of a low bar. I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was. Unless they brought in Roger Corman.

Let's face it. I'm still watching 24. Clearly massive errors of fact are not going to deter me from watching. I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

I like watching Jericho the way I like watching Dawson's Creek. But saying it's better than it was last fall is kind of a low bar. I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was. Unless they brought in Roger Corman.

Too too true, but at least it got better.

I also sort of root for it, because Sprague Grayden is a local. I used to drink eat at her parents' restaurant in college, and I hated her character on Joan of Arcadia so much that I jumped off the couch in glee when she died a horrible death (one I think was supposed to be touching, but just made me deliriously happy). So it's nice to like her character in something (and really, there's not enough of her character for me, let's lose Emily).

Last week and this week, the teaser as all about how they need to conserve gasoline. And both times they decided it was worth using the gas to go on little jaunts, so whatever.

THEY. HAVE. HORSES. Or they did. Maybe they ate them. I wouldn't put it past the townsfolk.

Also when they keep talking about how cold it is but nobody puts up the hood on their jacket.

And Mimi doesn't know which direction SW is, so she just takes a wild guess and walks off INTO THE SUNSET.

I mean... it's gotta be intentional. Right?

I've watched as many as six impossible things before breakfast.

Love.

I'm not sure it's actually possible for a TV show to get even more ridiculous than it already was.

Did Demian successfully warn you away from ever watching Charmed?

Ha!

Okay, point. Because I have seen some episodes, and they are pretty crazy. But I don't know if even Charmed has as many "This doesn't even make sense in the whacked-out universe this show takes place in!" moments.

To be vaguely on-topic, I've thought about putting a disclaimer on the first Drive recap that says, "Okay, I've met Tim and Kristen, but if I seem nicer about this show it's not because of that. It's because since Angel I've recapped Carnivale and Jericho, and now I know what Deep Hurting really means."