History Series / Jeremiah

* ExplainExplainOhCrap: When an adult survivor of the Big Death turns up working for the villainous Valhalla Sector, Jeremiah recognizes his military bearing. Erin tries to explain why this doesn't make sense, only to trail off at the end as she realizes the implications of what she's saying.
--> '''Erin:''' You can't have military without a command structure, without resources, hardware, a base of operation and enough weapons to...

** There are two characters named Samuel: a WastelandElder town in "Tripwire", and an artist Sims has paint his portrait in "State of the Union".* OneWomanWail: Used to a regular extent on every episode, to the point that any action in the second season was cause for it.

''Jeremiah'' is a PostApocalyptic television series that aired on {{Showtime}} from 2002 to 2004. It was (very loosely) adapted from the French-Belgian comic book series ''ComicBook/{{Jeremiah}}''. It was directed by Creator/JMichaelStraczynski and starred Creator/LukePerry and Creator/MalcolmJamalWarner. The series ended after two seasons when JMS quit, citing too much ExecutiveMeddling on the part of MGM, and the network elected not to continue without him.

* EvilCounterpart: GeneralRipper Sims and Jeremiah TheHero have a few paralells in their characters. Both have had violent pasts filled with lots of trouble, like wearing {{Badass Longcoat}}s, enjoy some of the finer things in life (with Jeremiah, this is embodied by him being ThePornomancer, while Sims is more of a WickedCultured type), and serve as the main subordinate of a powerful and far-reaching faction leader. Most significantly, in the finale, Sims is shown writing a letter and then disposing of it by letting it drift down a river, similar to how Jeremiah writes letters to his missing father (and later, the late [[spoiler:Libby Kaufman]]) and then burns them as a form of therapy, and in the hope they will read those letters, somewhere.

* FalloutShelterFail: Discussed in "Things Left Unsaid Part 2". ConspiracyTheorist Wylie discusses real life bomb shelters and government bunkers that became abundant during the Cold War and thoroughly mocks how most of them provided little real defense against a chemical or nuclear attack. He points out they radiation takes a while to go away, most bunkers can only hold so much food, and even if a bunker survives an initial explosion, radiation or airborne diseases can still get in with the air. He notes that there are only three bunkers he is aware of that were really designed to ride out a storm, and [[spoiler:at least two of those bunkers, Thunder Mountain and the Valhalla Sector, have no way to stop the spread of the Big Death virus once a single person brings it inside. The otherwise secure Valhalla Sector (which does at least last 15 years after the original outbreak) suffers especially badly since the time-controlled lock on its doors keeps anyone from having a chance of getting out in time]].

* TeenageWasteland: The world was this in the immediate aftermath of the plague, but the fact that it's subsided and allowed the children to grow up means that it no longer qualifies.

* OneWomanWail: Used to a regular extent on every episode, to the point that any action in the second season was cause for it.

* OrphansOrdeal: Every child on Earth had to deal with this after the adults died.

* UnspokenPlanGuarantee: Zigzagged in the two-parter "Letters from the Other Side". The scene cuts away before Lee Chen reveals his plan to end the war between Thunder Mountain and the Valhalla Sector to Kurdy and Meghan. But Kurdy's horrified expression as he leaves the room? and part 1 ending with [[spoiler:Lee Chen telling the Valhalla Sector that Meghan (who is really a carrier) is immune to the Big Death and that they will trade her for Markus and the other prisoners,]] make it obvious what the plan is even though no one says it out loud until near the end of the next episode. Half of the plan, [[spoiler:exposing the Valhalla Sector to the Big Death through Meghan]] works flawlessly, but [[spoiler:getting all of the prisoners out beforehand fails after the Valhalla Sector decide to keep Jeremiah and Devon as hostages]] as the part 1 cliffhanger. The last minute plan on how to [[spoiler:keep them safe from the virus is also discussed offscreen, has very few clues to its workings, and goes off perfectly]].