5/5 How could HBO cancel this extraordinary series?
  by Silver Bass (MA)
I am still amazed at HBO's decision to cancel "JFC", and yet the exceedingly boring "Big Love" continues to get renewed. I wish another network (Showtime)would pick this up. The characters draw you in, and soon enough your part of this compelling journey. I have NEVER been so moved by a television series. Mr. Milch, how can you let this go?

5/5 Fantastic
  by G. Mower (Caldwell, Idaho)
The DVD set came so fast - it was only a couple of days and the set looks brand new. Thanks much for a good transaction

5/5 What a crying shame....cancelled?
  by Mark Twain (Decatur, MS)
This show is one of the best ever produced. Maybe the best as far as quality story and actors. More than that it was so meaningful to the viewer it has to be called what it is: ART. David Milch should be freely allowed to make any show he wants to...for the good of society. Cancelling this show was a crime against society, and we are all the poorer for it. Gee, I wonder how this (and Deadwood's cancellation -plus the DW movies being axed) will affect Milch's muse.... will it make him create something SAFER? Something the network will actually allow to be created and shown? Thanks for leading, HBO, thanks for crushing the artist. At least give him two seasons! This show had something that is almost never touched on in TV - spirituality and man's place in relation to God. It had to be killed.

5/5 Still mourning this show's loss two years later!!!
  by Kathy (Yukon, OK USA)
HBO really, really needs to revive this series. I still miss it two years later. One of the best I've seen in my 50 years. I grew up near the beach in CA and this show always made me imagine I could smell the salt air and hear the waves crashing against the shore. Each episode left me a little shocked, thinking and conversing more deeply than usual. Almost makes me want to take a trip back.

1/5 Milch should get out of the game ;-)
  by Dr Carter
I love HBO series, I really do. And I loved Deadwood, even though the third season petered out as Milch seemed to lose his nerve and promise a bloodbath that never came ( which took some guts, I guess, but cost the series in the ratings and may have caused its demise); As for John from Cincinatti, what can I say? Where can I begin?

"Milch should get out of the game"?
"What do you mean, Milchie Yost"?
"John will soon be gone ( and not a day too soon)"?

Despite great characters actors and an intriguing debut, the series flounders around the third episode and never breaks the surface again. Actors like rebecca de Mornay are evilly shortchanged, changing for the sake of the "storyline" from a nervous though reliable grandmother to a ball-breaking hysteric, if for no other reason then creating "conflict" where there is none. Intriguing characters get no story arc, do not evolve. As a viewer I tried to keep the faith, grasping at straws, giving Milch the benefit of the doubt. "maybe it'll get better at the end" "maybe some if not all things will be explained..." Actually, I was just trying to forget that these were 10 hours of my life I was not ever going to reclaim. The tenth episode must rate as one of the most pitiful end to a series, ever, with, I kid you not, the climax of this HBO series being a parade of six cars on a waterfront to peddle new swimwear ;-)

So OK OK, the religious, mystical content of the series was not lost on me. It just promised, and was incapable of delivering. Stay clear from this as you would avoid a dead whale on the beach.