# Under The Dome: New Summer Mini-Series **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [June 8, 2013, 6:24pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483 "2013-06-08T18:24:00Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 20\ **Page:** 14
**Author:** ![tsm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tsm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 4:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/261 "2013-07-29T16:48:01Z")
Breaking news… It’s been renewed. [http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/07/29/under-the-dome-renewed-by-cbs-for-second-season/194432/](http://tvbythenumbers.zap2it.com/2013/07/29/under-the-dome-renewed-by-cbs-for-second-season/194432/) ---
**Author:** ![Broomstick](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/broomstick/32/246_2.png) [@Broomstick](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Broomstick)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 6:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/262 "2013-07-29T18:58:20Z")
Noooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo! ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 7:21pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/263 "2013-07-29T19:21:54Z")
That…doesn’t seem like a good thing. I want to like the show, but so much stupid…brain…shutting…down! ---
**Author:** ![DMark](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e68b1a/32.png) [@DMark](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/DMark)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 7:46pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/264 "2013-07-29T19:46:43Z")
OP here. Kind of embarrassing to admit, but after starting this thread, the SO and I watched the first episode and just hated it immediately. Dropped from our DVR list that night. I have, however, enjoyed reading all of the (snarky) comments about it - so carry on! And looks like you have at least one more season to watch all of this unfold! Lucky you! ---
**Author:** ![FrancisCastle](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/b4bc9f/32.png) [@FrancisCastle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/FrancisCastle)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 7:52pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/265 "2013-07-29T19:52:04Z")
I’m so disappointed with this series. But, depending on how bad the ending is, I’ll probably watch the next season too. ☹ ---
**Author:** ![tsm](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/db5fbb/32.png) [@tsm](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/tsm)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 8:03pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/266 "2013-07-29T20:03:58Z")
It just seems like it would work better as a miniseries with a definite ending. Not sure how they’re going to manage to keep dragging this out. ---
**Author:** ![divemaster](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/divemaster/32/78_2.png) [@divemaster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/divemaster)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 8:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/267 "2013-07-29T20:04:35Z")
> [@FrancisCastle](#): > > I’m so disappointed with this series. But, depending on how bad the ending is, I’ll probably watch the next season too. ☹ But that’s the thing. There is no ending! At least not this year. Unless they rename the series “We Used to Be Under a Dome” for the second season. ---
**Author:** ![johnpost](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/f17d59/32.png) [@johnpost](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/johnpost)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 9:35pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/268 "2013-07-29T21:35:32Z")
maybe there will be a portal through the dome, that only passes nonliving through, so they will get enough food for season two. ---
**Author:** ![StarvingButStrong](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/starvingbutstrong/32/335_2.png) [@StarvingButStrong](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/StarvingButStrong)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 9:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/269 "2013-07-29T21:44:36Z")
Okay, that’s it. I’m out as of this minute – I was only hanging on to see the “better” ending that SK said the show’s producers had come up with. Since there won’t _be_ an ending… ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 10:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/270 "2013-07-29T22:54:16Z")
> [@johnpost](#): > > maybe there will be a portal through the dome, that only passes nonliving through, so they will get enough food for season two. Yeah, that’s the first, most basic thing - they will all die if they can’t get any more food. The show really does have a natural limit on how long it can go (unless as you say, they come up with some _deus ex machina_ to get more food to the surviving people). Thinking about that, this show is really squandering the opportunity to make a really interesting show about how people live in such an unnatural condition that has been imposed on them. Instead they’re settling for “As The Dome Turns” - melodrama and ridiculous situations and ridiculous responses to them. ---
**Author:** ![sinjin](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/ebca7d/32.png) [@sinjin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/sinjin)\ **Post date:** [July 29, 2013, 11:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/271 "2013-07-29T23:10:08Z")
> [@toast\_pakora](#): > > I think it’s a lake but it certainly looks like an ocean, with the radio station looking like a former lighthouse. It wasn’t in the book IIRC so maybe it will feature in the revised denouement. > > Also, this is supposed to take place in Maine, right? I’m pretty sure the car that reporter woman traced to the DJ (which belonged to her husband) had Vermont license plates. > > I love the idea that the dome is to protect a segment of the population from an impending disaster. Doesn’t even have to be aliens. Could be some top secret program that the Army doesn’t know about. A lot of the show is filmed in Southport, NC. The radio station exterior is actually the Cape fear port pilot’s building. Big Jim’s house is on the corner of Howe and River rd. ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/272 "2013-07-30T02:41:31Z")
So, they’re addressing some issues now - food, water, insulin for the 23 diabetics in town. And now, 100% more looting! ETA: And the water issue is solved? ---
**Author:** ![alphaboi867](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/alphaboi867/32/3898_2.png) [@alphaboi867](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/alphaboi867)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/273 "2013-07-30T02:44:26Z")
Don’t forget about Aunt Zelda dying. I guess the Dome negates witchcraft too. 😛 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 2:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/274 "2013-07-30T02:49:45Z")
They’re pets in a terrarium! ---
**Author:** ![Accidental\_Martyr](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/ce7236/32.png) [@Accidental\_Martyr](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Accidental_Martyr)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 3:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/275 "2013-07-30T03:03:15Z")
I like how the 15-year-old girl was able to immediately find the medical records with the names and addresses of all the diabetics in town. Oh, and Blonde Lesbian Mom was showing symptoms of low blood sugar not high blood sugar from not taking insulin. She also wouldn’t have taken the entire bottle at once. Again, I don’t know why I’m still watching this. 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![Cat\_Whisperer](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cat_whisperer/32/4839_2.png) [@Cat\_Whisperer](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Cat_Whisperer)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:01am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/276 "2013-07-30T04:01:02Z")
Anyone else rooting for the diabetes? One down and two more to go (to get rid of those three - daughter and two moms, the most annoying characters in the history of television). ---
**Author:** ![CarnalK](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnalk/32/486_2.png) [@CarnalK](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/CarnalK)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 4:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/277 "2013-07-30T04:27:56Z")
**Sam Stone** don’t forget the kids running around town and saying 4 minutes before the blast ‘maybe we should get back to the shelter’ and of course how fast that last butterfly was going to reach the dome from outside the kill zone so soon. If we are gonna nitpick. 😉 ---
**Author:** ![GuanoLad](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guanolad/32/42_2.png) [@GuanoLad](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/GuanoLad)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 11:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/278 "2013-07-30T11:05:40Z")
The dialogue is so bad. Clumsy and deliberate, just like the plotting. Mediocre at every turn. We’ve had so many shows like this in the last few years\* and despite their claims and intentions to not make the same mistakes they’ve all been getting worse. \*Lost, Jericho, FlashForward, The Event, Terra Nova, Persons Unknown, Revolution, etc ---
**Author:** ![Laggard](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/9de053/32.png) [@Laggard](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Laggard)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 1:32pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/279 "2013-07-30T13:32:11Z")
I loathe the big city trio. ---
**Author:** ![Seanette](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/seanette/32/9139_2.png) [@Seanette](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Seanette)\ **Post date:** [July 30, 2013, 6:41pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483/280 "2013-07-30T18:41:41Z")
Well, I did watch one episode, mostly out of morbid curiosity about how badly the book had been mangled. The writers totally fail research forever, along with medicine, when it comes to diabetes, and it was SO nice of the daughter to be totally indifferent to whether other diabetics in town lived or died as long as HER mommy got the insulin. That rainstorm is just about textbook deus ex machina. Does Julia even know yet that she’s a widow, or was she just thinking “OK, husband’s not around and I’m hot for this guy, I’ll just make out with him in public in a storm”? [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483.md?page=13) [Next page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/under-the-dome-new-summer-mini-series/660483.md?page=15)