Pop Quiz #2

Here’s another pop quiz, but I guarantee you can get this one right if you think about it hard enough. It does contain major spoilers for Jericho, though, so if you haven’t watched this week’s episode, or if you plan to ever watch the show, don’t read any further.



On the television show Jericho, the group/groups responsible for dropping several nuclear bombs in various major cities all across the United States, with the successful goal of throwing the U.S. government into irreparable chaos was/were

A) Al-Qaeda, Hezbollah, or some other terrorist group that would love to see us destroyed.
B) North Korea, Iran, or some other country that would love to see us destroyed.
C) several cells of American anarchists.
D) several groups of American religious fundamentalists (i.e. Christians).
E) several Domestic militia groups.
F) C), D), and E) with fake FBI badges, as orchestrated by the Department of Homeland Security, using the CIA as dupes and nuclear weapons brought into the country by the U.S. government.

*Sigh.* Well, I was watching too much TV anyway. I guess it wouldn't hurt to cut this one off my TiVo Season Pass list. It’s not even so much the subject matter that offends me; it’s the ridiculous notion that this is supposed to surprise us anymore. The writers in Hollywood are so keen on venting political frustrations that they don't realize that everything they're writing has become horribly cliché. What would really surprise me, at this point, is a show that had the audacity to go outside the “we are the enemy” box that has become the status quo of every show on television for the past several years. I’m tired of it; it bores me. Come up with something new, people.