It is! It also reminds me of a show they cancelled last year- Jeremiah... [yeah it was shot in Vancouver
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I also like Jericho because it has the feeling of Lost, but isn't a blatant copy of it. It has realistic characters and supplies enough information and questions to keep the pace at a reasonable level- Some of the newer "serial dramas" tend to either go way to fast or too slowly [ie. the kidnapped, runaways, etc.] Yay for something different!
I was hoping last year's Threshold was going to be like this [it wasn't just my Brent Spiner loyalty that got me to watch that one], but it pittered out along with Surface. This year's new shows better not disappoint me!
Ditto for the CSIs- New York seems to be on track, Las Vegas is showing glimmers of it, and once and a while I forget how creepy Horatio is... until he does that hands on hips, sunglasses pose... or the crouching one... seriously, a 5 minute stroll around a statue and then a pose is not CSI. There is a good cast on that show, but if I wanted to watch a NYPD Horatio Blue I would