The planned 13 week summer series, Under the Dome, based on the book by Stephen King premiered last night. I really enjoyed it. I loved this book, and was happy to see the strongest characters and themes from the book represented. Mr. King is a producer of the series, so I’m sure that keeps the integrity intact even when changes are made.
Imagine a clear dome coming down over a mid-size town of Chester’s Mills. (big enough for a hospital, small enough everyone knows your business) Cellular, television, and power are all cut off. Only signals generated inside the dome are functioning, anything in the path of the dome when it came down was bisected. Touching it caused a short of shock, but only the first time. Although a lot of people have generators (it is in Maine, they do have wicked storms!) eventually, if this lasts, people are going to start to run out of necessities. What then? Who will lead them? How will things be provided? Divided?
Outside the dome, the military has showed up it seeing what they can do, but so far, no one knows where this thing came from and how to get rid of it. In the meantime, some strange seizures have been happening to some people…muttering something about stars.
Also, it seems being in too close a proximity to the dome seems to cause a malfunction in pacemakers and possibly other devices which transmit.
I can’t wait to keep watching this!
For example! The cow that got sliced in half length-wise was probably the best thing I have ever seen on network television! In the book this was a woodchuck, which was great, but definitely would not have been as great as impact on tv. I especially loved the casting of Big Jim Rennie, Breaking Bad’s Dean Norris, he has that good ‘ole boy feel down pat! Rachelle Lefevre is great as Julia Shumway, inquisitive with an outsider feel.
Princess of the Library 