Jericho

2016

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6.8| 0h30m| en| More Info
Released: 07 January 2016 Canceled
Producted By: ITV Studios
Country: United Kingdom
Budget: 0
Revenue: 0
Official Website: https://itvstudios.com/programmes/jericho
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In the Yorkshire Dales in the 1870s, the shantytown of Jericho is the home of a community that will live, thrive and die in the shadow of the viaduct they've been brought together to build.

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lanettekarner I was not sure I was going to enjoy this, but I have almost binge watched it!It has a frontier town theme, with the best bits of romance and angst from the period dramas 'North and South' and 'Pride and Prejudice.'I enjoyed the premise and story line and relating this drama to the history of real life towns set up around such 19th century projects. Life was brutal and this series reflects that well.Give this one a chance and see how the story, characters and great acting draw you in.Thoroughly recommend:)
Sam Dixon I like Clarke Peters, he is a very good actor and I love watching him but I am really struggling with the concept of an African American in 1870's Yorkshire casually taking charge of building a viaduct. We are talking Victorian Britain here and no one has batted an eye lid. While this is exactly how it should be this is not how it was in Victorian Britain, there is no way this would have happened. How are they supposed to convey the reality of the day when the role players are a fantasy of what the world should be like. This is as bad as Kevin Costner's Robin Hood, the days walk to Nottingham from Dover and suddenly ending up at Hadrians Wall. I was expecting something much grittier and realistic. I've really tried to watch this but I can't go on.
maureenbennett I couldn't get past the ridiculous outfits and makeup. In this shanty town full of filth, ruffians, chamber pots, and no baths, the immaculate heroine and her children stepped straight out of a Downton drawing room. The mother's big braids and sleek curls never fell out of place, even after a harrowing journey, or when there was a big explosion. The other women, all predictable soap characters, were equally overdressed. The scene of the women washing clothes in the stream (whilst wearing voluminous dresses, frothy curls, and not getting wet), may be typical in India, but not in freezing Yorkshire, (where the expression 'don't wash your dirty linen in public' originates). In those remote impoverished villages all the women had to work, and they wore thin straight dresses covered by coarse aprons, clogs, and shawls, with their hair tied back in buns. Should any man dare to wear a silky red shirt with puffy sleeves he would be laughed out of town. As for cowboys in Yorkshire ....! and no Yorkshire accents ....! To irritate further, the heroine suddenly acquired fine china and linen (imagine how the other women would have rightly laughed at such pretension). As I got more and more annoyed by the costumes, the makeup, the set, and the two-dimensional characters, I could not concentrate on the thin storyline, though I doubt if there was anything I could not have predicted.
jpdhadfield i was looking forward to 'jericho' as i'm interested in railways history and like dramas. well i should have known, the usual made up history ,parallel universe. ill number my complaints1. not a single Irish man building the railway,2, a black man in charge, in the 1880ish, 3 nobody even looks at the black man, a very rare thing in Britain in the 1880's .4.unrealistic concerns for dead or injured workers5. it felt just like a western cowboy film, just set in Yorkshire.6pah