Haaa like anyone expected them to get out of the dome until the end of the season (or maybe not even then). I keep watching "Under The Dome" but so far I'm not feeling too much love for it. Sorry Stephen King, I do still love you. I guess the issue is I don't feel attached to any of the characters so I don't really care if they get out or not. Hopefully they'll grow on me soon or this may be my last review.
The biggest reveal in episode 5 was the government planned to deactivate the dome by launching a bomb. Apparently they don't care if the bomb kills everyone inside. Uh I fail to understand the logic in that.
Everyone in Chester's Mills prepares to die and hides in the tunnels under the cement factory. Fortunately nothing happens. Big Jim finds Angie in the basement but leaves her there. He's a sleaze just like his son Junior. After the Reverend threatens to blab to the whole town about their crooked dealings, Jim kills him. Joe and Norrie kiss for the first time. Norrie is still mad at her moms because they didn't tell her about her father. Norrie needs to grow up and stop whining. I say throw her against the dome and see if that helps. Angie for the love of God if you can get away from Junior, stay AWAY from him for good. There should be no canoodling with a nut job that kept you locked in the basement.
From Wikipedia:
| 1 | "Pilot" | Niels Arden Oplev | Teleplay by: Brian K. Vaughan | June 24, 2013 | 13.53[14] |
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| Dale "Barbie" Barbara (Mike Vogel) buries a man's body in the woods of Chester's Mill. As he tries to leave the town, a mysterious, invisible barrier descends on the borders of the township, trapping everyone inside. Local newspaper reporter Julia Shumway (Rachelle Lefevre), who was investigating mysterious propane deliveries before the barrier appeared, takes a special interest in Barbie after he saves the life of teenager Joe McAlister (Colin Ford), whose parents are trapped out of town. Town selectman "Big Jim" Rennie (Dean Norris) makes an emergency radio announcement, while police chief Duke Perkins (Jeff Fahey) and his deputy Linda Esquivel try to quell the rise of panic in the town. Big Jim's unstable son Junior (Alexander Koch) kidnaps Angie McAlister (Britt Robertson) when he begins to suspect she had an affair with Barbie. Carolyn Hill (Aisha Hinds) and her partner Alice Calvert (Samantha Mathis) are passing through Chester's Mill when the barrier appears and their daughter has what they think is a Diabetic seizure. A link between Big Jim, Chief Perkins and the stockpiled propane is revealed. Julia takes Barbie into her home, where he realizes the man he murdered and buried is her husband, Peter. Duke Perkins suggests to Linda that the entire town is being punished and is about to reveal a dark secret about the town when his pacemaker explodes as he approaches the barrier. The U.S. military descends upon Chester's Mill as the world learns of the unprecedented phenomenon. | |||||
| 2 | "The Fire" | Jack Bender | Rick Cleveland | July 1, 2013 | 11.81[15] |
| When Barbie realizes he left his dog tags at the cabin where he killed Julia’s husband Peter (R. Keith Harris), he heads back to retrieve them but is ambushed by Junior who believes Angie is sexually involved with him. At the radio station, Dodee and Phil pick up a military frequency discussing the dome and Julia commandeers the microphone to broadcast the information. While exploring, Joe and his friend Ben notice that the military is testing to see if water can get through the dome and find out that a small amount can escape through. Meanwhile, Big Jim has Reverend Coggins (Ned Bellamy) destroy the propane shipment records at Sherriff Duke’s house, but Coggins accidentally starts a large fire while burning the evidence. Linda hears Coggins yell for help and pulls him out of the house, but the fire spreads when a nearby propane tank explodes, forcing the town to rally together to form a bucket brigade. Though Big Jim had ignored Coggins’ cries for help before anyone arrived on the scene, in front of the town he uses a tractor to contain the fire. A hysterical Deputy Paul shoots his gun at the dome, but the bullet ricochets off and kills Deputy Freddy. | |||||
| 3 | "Manhunt" | Paul Edwards | Adam Stein | July 8, 2013 | 10.71[16] |
| Deputy Paul Randolph (Kevin Sizemore), who accidentally killed Deputy Freddy (Joe Knezevich), escapes his jail cell and locks Linda inside, Big Jim organizes a search party to find Paul by recruiting other townsmen and a reluctant Barbie, while Linda resolves to find Paul on her own. In the woods, Paul sneaks up on Barbie and Big Jim to hold them at gunpoint and Linda shows up and shoots Paul, prompting Big Jim to designate her as the new Sheriff. Julia tails Junior into the tunnels under the cement plant, where he is looking to find a way out, he hits the barrier of the dome and his flashlight explodes, but Julia is able to help him and use her matches to guide them out to safety. Meanwhile, Joe and Norrie (Mackenzie Lintz) find themselves in the middle of a party as Ben invites all of the teenagers in town to charge their electronics using Joe’s generator. The party ends when the generator blows, and Carolyn and Alice find Norrie and see her and Joe touch hands and start having simultaneous seizures, repeating the same cryptic phrase "Pink stars are falling”. | |||||
| 4 | "Outbreak" | Kari Skogland | Peter Calloway | July 15, 2013 | 11.13[17] |
| After Julia learns that Phil and Barbie are connected to her husband Peter, she questions Phil about Peter’s whereabouts, but he passes out from an unexpected illness. As other townspeople including Linda begin to display similar symptoms, Alice volunteers her help at the clinic and discerns the town is suffering from an outbreak of Meningitis. Junior enforces a quarantine of the clinic and pacifies the panicked patients attempting to break out, which impresses Linda enough to designate him as a Deputy. With a waning supply of antibiotics, Big Jim and Barbie head to the pharmacy but discover Reverend Coggins had already taken all the medicine, believing it was God’s plan for the infected to die. Big Jim retrieves the antibiotics to treat the diseased while Barbie tracks down Julia at the cabin where she had followed leads to uncover documentation of Peter’s bankruptcy. When Barbie confesses he was visiting Chester’s Mill as an enforcer for Phil and Peter’s gambling debts, Julia lashes out at him for lying to her. Meanwhile, Joe and Norrie experiment with their simultaneous seizures while Big Jim finds Angie in the underground shelter. | |||||
| 5 | "Blue on Blue" | Jack Bender | Brian K. Vaughan | July 22, 2013 | 11.60[18] |
| Despite finding Angie in the shelter, Jim leaves her locked up, unable to believe his son would do such a thing. Meanwhile, the military has scheduled a "visitors' day" for the residents of Chester's Mill, where family members and friends of people trapped in the dome can come and visit their loved ones. During the event, Linda tells her fiancé about his brother's death, Julia's sister in law shows her a note from her husband that says he is leaving and to apologize for him, Norrie meets her estranged biological father who her parents had lead her to believe she would never be able to find, and Barbie finds out from a soldier stationed outside the dome that the military plans to attempt to destroy the dome with a missile (MOAB), which will likely kill everyone inside. When Barbie relays this to Big Jim, he orders everyone to take shelter in the tunnels underneath the city. He then releases Angie from her captivity, but when Junior finds out, he sets off after her while everyone else takes shelter in the tunnels. As most of the town prepares for the inevitable in the tunnels, Joe and Norrie search for Angie, Junior finds Angie at her house and they spend what they believe will be their last moments together, and Barbie and Julia search for Norrie at the request of her parents. As the missile approaches, Norrie and Joe share a kiss. The missile harmlessly impacts the dome, laying waste to everything outside of it but leaving the town unscathed. Norrie and Joe find that they no longer have seizures when they touch. As Big Jim investigates the edge of the dome, he is approached by Reverend Coggins, who earlier gave him an ultimatum to admit his part in a drug scandal to the town. Jim kills Coggins by pushing his head into the dome, causing his hearing aid to explode. | |||||
Grade: 3 1/2 Monsters (out of 5). Hopefully the residents of Chester's Mill will grow on me soon.
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