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Under the Dome

Cassie

Cassie

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The pilot was pretty good. I was skeptical about watching it because I've seen Stephen King adaptations before and they were mostly NOT GOOD. (I love his novels, though)

The creepy crazy hot guy with the butterfly knife! I might let him kidnap me and lock me in the fallout shelter, but he has to put the knife away.

This show has good production values, and the acting was decent. I hope CBS doesn't ruin it by trying to drag the story out through multiple seasons. GIVE US A GOOD MINISERIES AND BE DONE WITH IT, OKAY?
 
So many actors from other shows! The main dude from Cloverfield, Chesty McChesthairington from Lost, Mrs Thornberry and the shaman lady from True Blood, and Walter's brother in law from Breaking Bad.

I can't really pin it down, but somehow this has a very Stephen King tv movie feel to it. I mean, something about the tone of it and the way it's shot... even the locations used. It's as if all his adaptations are made by the same people.

Anyway, it was reasonably good. You'd have to try pretty hard to mess up the events of this episode, anyway. We'll see how the rest of the show is now they don't have cows being sliced in half to hold our attention.
 
http://www.tv.com/news/news-briefs-a-whole-bunch-of-people-watched-under-the-dome-137220351851/

CBS's Under the Dome is a bigger summer hit than sunburn! The series premiere of the supernatural drama drew in a hefty 13.14 million viewers, which isn't supposed to happen during the summer. In fact, CBS says it was the most-watched summer drama premiere on any network since 1992 and its best-rated summer premiere of any genre since 2005. It might not slow down, either. The first episode was up against the clinching Stanley Cup game, and positive reviews and a lack of future competition (well, except for NBC's poorly scheduled Siberia) mean that it could keep most of its audience.
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This is good news for CBS, but probably both bad and good news for us. Bad news for us because they'll probably try to turn it into an ongoing series and ruin it. If they drag it out it will just become a soap opera in a bubble.... BUT good news for us also, because it could mean a return to scripted shows, and more scripted shows in the summer as other networks scramble to compete.
 
Which tells me that even though the show is already on the air, it probably doesn't have a solid ending that explains why the fucking dome crashed down on them.
 
I watched the first episode. The set-up is interesting and the chopped in half cow was cool. It seems like it could be good. But I don't really remember anything about any of the characters. I know it's just the first episode and they'll grow over the weeks, but none of them stood out as potential "this is the best character!" types. So that could be a problem.
 
Cassie said:
NBC has a show about a reality show!
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I watched it on hulu last night, it was actually pretty good. Sort of had a Lost vibe to it, which is probably what they were going for. They don't seem afraid to kill off characters either and there's some kind of monster or big scary animal running amok too.
 
Someone told me there's also
necrophilia to look forward to.
I trust since it's a well liked book all these elements come together in a way that makes sense?
 
I haven't read the book, but according to the wikipedia page.

Its just a bunch of alien teenagers with their equivalent of an ant farm.

And only a handful of people survive.
 
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