It was a good show. I dont remember lefty preaching. Then it was gone. Prolly good cause Revolution went to crap in the last season. After a while these tv writers seem to run out of good ideas when a drama like these are produced
Shows like these seem to be doomed when they let broadcast television get ahold of them. They'd fare better in the hands of networks such as AMC or HBO where the envelope could be pushed a little more.
Reading about Jericho, looks like a good subject. I'd be up for a good SHTF show like The Walking Dead minus the zombies. Make it 100% believable.
The second season went to crap because they barely, and only, got a second season.
Iirc the show was planned out with a 5-7 year arc. It was on the bubble and despite a very loyal (but small) following it was cancelled.
The fans launched a campaign for the show to be continued, at least to the point of wrapping it up. Sent in bags of peanuts (mentioned in a previous post) due to the character on the show invoking Bastone and telling an enemy “NUTS!” in response to an order to surrender.
It got the fans a partial second season to wrap up much of the storyline, but it required a lot of cramming stuff in, in a very disjointed and convoluted way.
Same thing happened with “Chuck” ... At the end it was funded by fans buying sandwichs from sponsor Subway. Subway got all sorts of hilarious (intentionally) product placement in the show. But it was still cut off too early with too much pretzeling to wrap up plotlines.