Liberty Kaufman, aka Libby (Joanne Kelly) is working for Jeremiah’s father at Valhalla Sector, when Valhalla Sector falls due to Meghan (Saraphina Joachim), who was a carrier of the virus, Libby goes back with Jeremiah to Thunder Mountain. Most of you probably know Joanne Kelly from her role on Warehouse 13 as Myka Bearing. John Pyper-Ferguson is Sims, he is the adversary to Jeremiah, Kurdy and the Alliance. He is a military leader answering to a guy called Daniel. At least, it appears to be a guy, but it turns out to be a symbol, thought up by a group of older people who survived the big death virus, who came from Valhall Sector to start their own world. John Pyper-Ferguson as Gabriel Sims, steals every scene he is in, his southern accent, his roughness, ruthlessness, but also his love for poems, birds, nature. No, Sims was not a nice man, but every time he graced my screen, I enjoyed him immensely, John Pyper-Ferguson did a perfect job.

Season two in a nutshell:

I will try to tell in a few words what happened in season two:

After Jeremiah, Kurdy and the people of Thunder Mountain are successful in beating the forces of Valhalla Sector, where Meghan was decisive, Markus finally was able to try and build up a new and improved Amerika. He wanted to do this by getting in contact with other groups of people, with towns, who wanted a created a new future together. Jeremiah was stationed in a town called Millhaven, formerly linked to Valhalla Sector. Libby joined Jeremiah and soon they became a couple. Kurdy, who at that time still needed some distance from Jeremiah, meets Mr. Smith and he becomes Kurdy’s partner.

Then the name Daniel falls, they are also trying to built a new future, but not on hope, peace and equality, but on fear, force and slavery. Meanwhile, we learn that Libby, is a traitor, she is working for Sims and apparently have a relationship together. I have to say, that if you never before watched Jeremiah, it really would have come as a surprise to you as a viewer that she is a traitor. Jeremiah is led to believe that Sims is the one who killed her, but in fact it is Mr. Smith, in self defense. He was a witness when Libby and Sims met and kissed. A heavy burden lies on Mr. Smith, when he decides not to tell to truth, to protect Jeremiah and because he thinks he would not have believed him anyway.

Meanwhile Daniel is getting ready for war, and they have more than a few men inside Thunder Mountain, to fight them from within. Lee however, finds clues that there is something not right, he suspects Daniel has infiltrated people inside the Mountain. Sims thinks of himself as a righteous man, and he gives Markus the chance to surrender now, before many people will get killed, thinking he has an advantage. On the eve of battle Erin tells Markus she has been in love with him from the very first time she met him, a very heartfelt scene when she tells him this when she believes he is sleeping, which he is not. He tells her he is not ready…yet.

When the truth comes out, Jeremiah attacks Mr. Smith, he wants to kill him and probably would have had Kurdy not intervened. Jeremiah goes out to find Sims while Kurdy stays in Millhaven to get ready for a war with Daniel’s soldiers. Again, Sims contacts Markus and asks him to surrender, but when Markus tells Sims that Daniel does not even exist, that he is nothing more than a symbol, Sims hangs up but starts to believe Markus. Jeremiah finds Sims and start a fight to the death, Lee and Markus expose Daniel’s men inside the Mountain and Sims second, who learned the truth about Daniel when Sims and Jeremiah were fighting, he and his men decide to stand their ground, instead of continuing towards the enemy. Kurdy sees this as an opportunity, instead of fighting, maybe there is a way to make peace by telling the truth about Daniel, and about what the Alliance stands for.

Episodes:

Well, season two is five episodes shorter than the first season, just 15 episodes, but this is a good example where I rather have just 15 episodes of quality, than 20 episodes which are okay with some outliers. 13 episodes I graded an 8 out of 10, two of them a 9 out of 10, the two series finale episodes. I don’t need to say more than that, I immensely enjoyed the second season and although the show is called Jeremiah, I do think that Kurdy is my favorite character. A strong character, strong minded, decent, righteous, honest and not afraid to fight, but also to talk instead of fighting when there is the opportunity. Really nice how this character has developed over the course of two seasons. I also do like Jeremiah, but he annoyed me on more than one occasion throughout the two seasons, often selfish, especially towards Kurdy.

Final Word:

I wanted to rewatch this for a long time now. I hadn’t watched Jeremiah’s season two in ten years, season one was even longer, 15 years since I’d last seen that. I wouldn’t have minded a season or two more, if JMS stayed on, but unfortunately this obviously didn’t happen. Recently the complete series has been released in Germany, without subs and in North America both seasons have also been released on DVD, although season two is manufactured on demand using DVD-R recordable media. I have this set also, works perfectly, also on a region B player. In Australia the complete series was also released, but is now very hard to come by.