YMMV / Jericho (2006)

• Genius Bonus: The morse code at the beginning of every episode spells something out, which also counts as something of a Couch Gag.
• Growing the Beard: The second half of season one, in many viewer's opinions, once the characters stopped behaving like idiots, the drama became dramatic, and Emily got significantly less screentime.
• Hilarious in Hindsight: What is it with Lennie James and series which deal with post-apocalyptic disasters? Here it's nukes. Next time it'll be zombies.
• Moe
  • Bonnie, for being a deaf, headstrong eventual Action Girl who inspires a lot of her older brother's more tender moments.
  • Spirited, tomboyish Cool Teacher Heather can be adorably bashful at times.
  • Sunny, genuinely helpful J&R Token Good Teammate Trish, especially during her Odd Friendship interactions with Bonnie.
• Nightmare Fuel: The entire premise. No less than two dozen of America's largest cities have been completely destroyed, leading to tens of millions of deaths and leaving the country paralyzed, with communications compromised nationwide. Fallout has spread across what remains of the metropolitan areas, entire towns have lost touch with the outside world, the government is effectively destroyed, and the country has gradually fractured into multiple dissenting factions as they wrestle over the best means by which to save the remains of the union, even as a major corporate conspiracy moves to seize power.
  • It's mentioned that New York City was perhaps the only target city spared from nuclear armageddon.
• One-Scene Wonder: Xander Berkeley as John Smith. He only has three brief "appearances" in the entire series, two of which are just as voice over the phone and in the third he doesn't even speak when disguised as a medic. Yet he's still absolutely captivating as he finally explains who was really behind the nuclear attacks and why.
• The Scrappy: Emily quickly became this.
• Ship-to-Ship Combat: Jake/Heather vs. Jake/Emily. Even the producers of the show had their favorite — Jake/Emily won.
• Tear Jerker: Stanley saying goodbye to Bonnie for the last time.
• They Wasted a Perfectly Good Character:
  • Both New Bern Token Good Teammate Ted and reformed Con Artist Maggie Mullen disappear from the show (and in the same episode) with no closure, despite making decent impressions on the fanbase.
  • Hawkins' teammate Cheung is a Hero of Another Story while working within ASA territory. This has the potential for a minor subplot, but he doesn't physically appear in the show until the finale and then is anticlimactically gunned down without receiving much characterization.
  • April's Death by Childbirth along with her baby is pretty disappointing, given how many fans wanted to see Eric dealing with fatherhood while struggling with his love triangle.

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