Holy cow crap, I’m back!
Sorry for the sudden silence dear readers…or reader…or person who
randomly clicked on this page, but I was busy moving over this weekend/ last
week and between working and getting my belongings situated I haven’t had time
to do my daily duty of reviewing movies and TV shows…mostly for myself, let’s
be honest.
Anyway, back to reviewing.
Last Monday night brought the new episode of “Under the
Dome” and thankfully this show is finding its legs. Slowly, and painfully at times, but like the
baby giraffe that falls twenty stories from its mother’s innards to the ground
this show is hefting its body up on slim, shaky legs and taking tentative steps
toward an involving story.
I’ve complained on multiple occasions about the Big Jim
Rennie in the TV show. I liked the books
Big Jim. He was a caricature, sure, but
he was a threat to everyone under the Dome, even though the town backed him as
their saving grace. People who knew of
his deceit knew what Big Jim was capable of, and he was frightening. So far in the show he didn’t pose that much
of a threat until the end of last episode, he began to form into the character
I’ve been waiting for. This episode he
goes a little further down the rabbit-hole and I’m enjoying seeing this
narcissistic, power-hungry evil force take form in Chester’s Mill.
Another great moment in this episode is the break-in at
the diner. Not only does it happen at
the perfect time in Angie’s story, but it gives a spark of life to this show
that I feel was starting to drag. Angie just
escaped from the bunker where Junior was keeping her and during the riot Junior
sees her so she runs from him and ends up at the diner. She collapses into the arms of Rose who owns
the diner and tells her about what happened in the bunker. Just when you think poor Angie has a friend
who will protect her and bring to light what Junior put her through a couple of
brothers break into the diner and raise hell.
They kill Rose and almost rape Angie, but she is thankfully saved by
Barbie and taken to safety. This starts
bringing in more of the craziness of the novel, which I loved, and it
complicates Angie’s story even more than it already was.
Under the Dome is starting to come through on being a
good show, although I still dislike most of the teenager’s dialogue. Also, I found the storyline about creating
the Geiger counter to find the power supply of the Dome a little far-fetched,
but we’ll see where they go with it. This
episode was pretty good and next episode looks to be better. To be quite honest, I just watched the new
episode and I’ll post the review of that tomorrow as well as more information
about this blog going forward.
