i be fascinate by this show partly because i be a big fan of post apocalyptic fiction ( alas babylon and the day after and testament and the last ship and thread and on the beach and etc ) . i recommend thread ( bbc 1984 ) . after view it and you will wonder why someone hasn not do a good book or movie about hurricane katrina use it premise . but back to jericho . a town of five thousand in western kansa and most of whose resident have no visible mean of support . where be the big employer and like a shoe factory or a plastic extruding plant . you can not tell me the town be one to two thousand farmer and their family . farmer would be too busy and too far away to hang out in a bar all day and they would have supply of gasoline and food at their farm and plus old agricultural machinery and other equipment that doesn not require gasoline and there would be people who would have the knowledge to operate it . a town of five thousand would have a courthouse and a bank and and lead citizen . there would be power dynamic and struggle that be in place before the catastrophe . in the most recent episode we learn that the green have a ranch out in the countryside with a barn full of horse . a barn full of horse be a time consume high maintenance endeavor and not some place you visit in the fourth episode because you need to get jake green work up . we also learn that the people of jericho turn to the mayor and police when their utility stop work . there do not appear to be an electric substation anywhere near the town nor anyone in the town who appear to know where the electricity come from . it look like the creator of this show get their concept for a small town from their experience with suburban bedroom community . jericho appear to work as if there be a large city no more than 20 minute away by car and not like a town in the middle of nowhere . if you take a look at the imdb cast and crew page for this show and you will note there be no credited producer and director or writer . you see executive producer and art and sound and sfx and miscellaneous crew and but just like the town of jericho itself and there be no responsible adult to look to or blame .