A week ago we learned that the premiere date for season 2 of Jericho was going to be on February 12th, and now that the ice has been broken, more tidbits are leaking out for the sophomore season of the post-apocalyptic series.
BuddyTV posted some excerpts from an interview done by Sci-Fi Wire with creator John Steinberg. A lot of them have to do with the premise for what season 2 will be like, so if you want to avoid knowing those kind of things, stop reading now!
First off, we know the series has only been given seven episodes to wrap things up. While they have tried to do their best at giving the fans some sort of conclusion, they will err on the side of hope and keep some of their plot lines open.
“In changing it from 22 to seven episodes, we sort of broke it like a movie,” Steinberg said. “And so I think we want to find the best end of this movie that we can come up with. I think we have a pretty good one. You’re going to feel satisfied, but you’re also going to know that there’s a lot more story coming down the road and that it’s not tied up in a bow in any way.”
A new building will in the town of Jericho with a cement facade, the headquarters for Jennings and Rall, a multinational organization. The mysterious company is so important to this season that they’ve created a viral website for them called JenningsAndRall.com.
Steinberg says that the little community of Jericho will deal with outside forces trying to invade their town.
The first season was about that sort of invisible force – the government, the law, the financial system, all those things disappearing, and living in a vacuum,” Steinberg said in an interview. “Season two is about what happens when something comes back to replace that vacuum, and it’s not what you remembered being there when you left. And so that’s kind of the big arc of it, and how we respond to that and resist it or learn to deal with it.”
Since the season is short, Steinberg said that storylines from last year will be finished pretty quickly, but some of it will still be around for awhile:
“The first season is going to bleed story all the way through the second season, especially that finale. It’s stuff that they went through way too much, and it was way too terrible for them to get over it in seven episodes. So it’s all in there.”
From BuddyTV.com:
The first episode of season two will be entitled “Reconstruction,” and CBS has also released an official description of the episode: “Colonel Hoffman (Esai Morales) tells Jake (Skeet Ulrich) that the town will look to him for leadership and offers him the position of sheriff.
Sounds good to me…I’m just hoping that the seven episodes, if that’s all we ever get, will be action-packed and highly satisfying for us fans.
It might do pretty well since it’ll be about the only new scripted show on TV at the time…
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Yeah, it might…also Friday Night Lights is in the same boat, they have like 8 episodes left already made for the new year.
I liked Jon Steinbergs comment about the residual bleed from the first season. I understand that Pamela Reed only appears in one of the episodes. I guess that means these Seven will have a really tight focus
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Interesting point that Pamela Reed isn’t around long…either they just focus on other things, or does she leave town?
Going to be interesting for sure.