As I feared, Patriots and Tyrants is the last episode of Jericho, at least as far as its life on network television goes. As there is with any show that has a small but dedicated fan base, there are rumors that the show may still be picked up by some cable network or another. Having been disappointed by such rumors in the past, I choose to simply consider the show over, and if it happens to return, then I’ll be pleasantly surprised. Better that than bitterly disappointed.

Patriots and Tyrants served as a pretty good ending for the show, I think. At the end of last episode, Jake and Hawkins headed for Cheyenne to recover the last of the bombs from the attack that cut Jericho off from the rest of the world at the beginning of the last season, while the Jericho Rangers were still in hiding from Beck, who had declared the town to be in a full-fledged insurrection. This episode did an excellent job of tying up the major plot threads from the season and bringing us to a good stopping point, but it also leaves the world of Jericho open for more stories in the future — they won’t be continuations of the existing stories, but new stories that happen to involve some of the same characters.