Jericho - ITV4 Wednesday's 8pm

I have been watching this new US drama series for the last two weeks and it is turning into a must watch series.

Its starts off with following a prodigal son Jake Green returning home to a small town (population:5000) called Jericho a few hours away from Denver. Then a nuclear mushroom cloud is seen over Denver and all communication is lost without the outside world.

In the first episode is blind panic, the children are missing in a school bus somewhere, everyone can see the mushroom cloud but no one has any information and then the power goes out. One of the first panics is at the gas station where everyone is queuing for fuel. Although it is unclear where they might drive too. Certainly in both episodes no one appears to leave the district. The sheriffs department go off in search of the school bus but get caught up with some escaped criminals leaving the fire brigade to act as public order officials.

The mayor and his family including the prodigal son must then pull the town together to survive. Episode 1 ends with a stirring speech of the best community in the US from the mayor and then his son arrives with the missing school bus.

In Episode 2 the criminals roll into town looking for trouble and lethal radioactive rain storm is on its way from Denver, two hours to get everyone under cover in two small nuclear shelters. Despite some frantic repair work only the town hall shelter is functional leaving all the hospital staff, patients and other stuck with no place to go. Is the salt mine their last hope?

Meanwhile our hero Jake finds out about the criminals and heads out to rescue his friends, can he do it before the killer rain arrives?

This is a very interesting show which has potential, I shall keep watching to see how things turn out.