Annotated
I wonder when I’ll need a footnote,
when my points will not be clear,
when my references could none other be
something from my life obscure.
I wonder of the power
of the first line I write that’s noted,
should it carry weight in idea alone
or act as Jericho1, imploded?
Jericho (2006 TV series) was hosted on CBS from 2006 to 2008 and ran for only 1.5 seasons with a total of 29 episodes. The plot focuses on an American post-apocalyptic landscape which centers on the residents of the fictional city of Jericho, Kansas, in the aftermath of a nuclear attack. In 2013, in my first apartment after college I viewed this TV show from a small half basement living room infested with silverfish, two roommates named Adam, and a third named Big Bryan. The living room space had a projector and a dis-gust-ing brown black sofa. One wall of the living room also contained an entire wall size promotional banner for Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers. One weeknight, while sitting on the garbage couch, watching Jericho, an Adam came out of his room, stood only briefly, two minutes, and passed judgment that the show looked absolutely terrible and asked aloud to the universe how anyone could watch this show? (15.4 million viewers across both seasons) Regardless, I finished the series and Adam to this day will not let me forget what a waste of my life watching the series was. After season 1, upon the cancellation of the show on May 16, 2007, fans of the show produced “the largest campaign the network had seen to protest the cancellation of a show” including sending 20 tons of nuts to the CBS headquarters. The last of the seven episodes of season 2 were broadcast on March 25, 2008, and the show was not affected directly by the 2007 strike of the Writers Guild of America. It is without doubt that I will forever be affected by Jericho.