Every review that is 5 stars or less is right on the money. Like many, I wanted to like the series. My chief complaint is that nobody behaves rationally so the drama is replaced with chaotic unpredictability. Drama and suspense work best if we have a good sense of what the people of Chesters Mill will do given certain provocations. But not here...
For example, Barbie waves his gun around in everybody's face and has sex with the merry widow of the man he murdered over a poker debt. She says of her dead husband (paraphrasing) "he wanted to die and you helped him, I love you Barbie".
Big Jim is an arrogant dimwit who thinks he runs things. But in the end he secretly helps his feckless son "Junior" keep a hostage and schemes to release swine flu to diminish the surplus population. He kills a couple of bad actors, so to speak, in cold blood, but spares the psychopath Barbie. Supposedly all for the good of the town.
The introduction of the science teacher, Rebecca, added a little of faux geekiness. She is a sort of mad scientist who thinks, like Big Jim, she is acting in the towns best interest as she concocts the swine flu. Her defense when caught... "I didn't release it, so we're cool, right?" The rest of the time she is building magnets and windmills and setting fires... just helping.
As for the Dome itself, it is invisible, has no personality nor motivations, and of course has no lines to speak. Yet, sadly, it remains the only interesting character worth watching in this otherwise dreary, suspenseless show.
For example, Barbie waves his gun around in everybody's face and has sex with the merry widow of the man he murdered over a poker debt. She says of her dead husband (paraphrasing) "he wanted to die and you helped him, I love you Barbie".
Big Jim is an arrogant dimwit who thinks he runs things. But in the end he secretly helps his feckless son "Junior" keep a hostage and schemes to release swine flu to diminish the surplus population. He kills a couple of bad actors, so to speak, in cold blood, but spares the psychopath Barbie. Supposedly all for the good of the town.
The introduction of the science teacher, Rebecca, added a little of faux geekiness. She is a sort of mad scientist who thinks, like Big Jim, she is acting in the towns best interest as she concocts the swine flu. Her defense when caught... "I didn't release it, so we're cool, right?" The rest of the time she is building magnets and windmills and setting fires... just helping.
As for the Dome itself, it is invisible, has no personality nor motivations, and of course has no lines to speak. Yet, sadly, it remains the only interesting character worth watching in this otherwise dreary, suspenseless show.
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