Console
best movie i've ever seen.
BelSports
This is a coming of age storyline that you've seen in one form or another for decades. It takes a truly unique voice to make yet another one worth watching.
Scotty Burke
It is interesting even when nothing much happens, which is for most of its 3-hour running time. Read full review
rapier-34685
Jeremiah has an overall interesting plot and instead of doing what most other TV-shows in this genre would do by following a direct plot or story each episode generally focuses on a side story or a smaller story which ends up being developed later throughout the series. And most side-stories entwine with the main plot or at least they get developed later throughout the series. The acting is what you would call average at most with the protagonists being decent actors, but most of the stand in actors for episodes can sometimes seem odd and out of character. But the director seems to rely on the abundance of sex scenes to keep the show what he believes to be interesting. And they take the scenes far further than needed, and unlike other shows which imply things such as rape or sexual intercourse Jeremiah has a tendency to actually show the scenes happening and you can even sometimes see the tension between the actors. Overall it would of been far better without the constant reliance on sex or the pretentious script at times. FINAL SCORE: 5 OUT OF 10
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.
lazysoozie
Wow. For anyone out there who is a die-hard sociological and/or post-Apocolyptic scifi fan, this series is for you. An excellent rendering of what, sadly, everyone calls a 'comic book,' this translation of a 'graphic novel' is captivating. The characters are believable, which makes the scenarios believable. Most importantly, we are drawn into the times, and we have heroes to root for. Jeremiah is intelligent and thought provoking, which will no doubt be unappealing to many. No, there are no fancy special effects, so that will disappoint many also, and every now and then we run into continuity questions, but the story-lines well make up for that. Luke Perry and Malcom-Jamal Warner deserve kudos for their acting skills (and made me forget their origins), as does anyone who plays a major or minor part in this series. For anyone who likes a good, intelligent story, a good drama that keeps you on the edge of your seat and rooting for good to best evil, you will relish this series. Yes, I gave it a 9 out of 10, as that is well-deserved.
Freemheart
A few years ago I watch the first episode and it was the worst work I saw from J. Michael Straczynski. A nothing original basic story with somethings in common with "a boy and his dog" (from his friend Harlan Ellison and mad max 2 (the tribes). Just less that a year I had the opportunity to watch the whole first season, and after I had to look for every single episode of the second... what was the problem?, after the cancellation of Crusade, Jeremiah seems to be something absolutely different, and the first episodes are not really good, but once you began to watch it carefully you find it's the same basic plot of Crusade: the war to save the humanity, from the secret groups playing in the shadows (what supposed to be the real Crusade in the Babylon 5 spin off). There is a basic story but at the same time there is a major plot who involves the evolution of every character and new secrets to be revealed, so not even the title hero can escape from his own sins and inner battles, and that's makes Jeremiah a wonderful show, how what seems to be a simple story become something greater with so many original things to find. After season one some major plots are resolved but Straczynski really shows his skills with bigger and better stories full of things to think carefully including new characters to show how the faith it's involved in the war (yeah, in Crusade the Dhrak begin a war, in Jeremiah other one has this role as a human version of what they tried) As I said in the title of this comment, if you watch carefully, you can find in Jeremiah a more realistic version of everything created in Crusade even with good characters and incredible plots.
