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Set in the near future, Under the Dome tells the story of the residents of the small town of Chester's Mill, who suddenly find themselves cut off from the rest of the world by a mysterious, impenetrable barrier that surrounds the town. As the town begins to tear itself apart through panic, a small group of people attempt to maintain peace and order while also trying to uncover the truth behind the barrier and how to escape from it.
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'Under the Dome' gets off to a good start adapting Stephen King

As the last real broadcast network left, CBS doesn't need to experiment as much as its competitors. They're all trying to invent new rules for the business, while CBS still manages to make money and find big audiences under the old rules.

Every now and then, though, the good ol' Eye Network will try something different, and the premiere of "Under the Dome" tomorrow night at 10 seems like one of its more intriguing experiments of late.

The series — or "summer event," or however it's being described in any given week by CBS — is adapted from the Stephen King novel of the same name, about a small town called Chester's Mill whose citizens find themselves trapped inside an invisible, impenetrable dome. It's a catchy premise, mixing science fiction with a CBS-friendly pastoral setting. It has a solid cast, including Dean Norris, Mike Vogel, Rachelle LeFevre and Britt Robertson. And in executive producer Brian K. Vaughan, it has a writer of both high-concept TV like "Lost" and comic books like "Y: The Last Man" (an immature street performer tries to survive in a world where every man but himself has died at once), "Ex Machina" (a superhero retires and becomes mayor of New York shortly after interceding in 9/11) and "Saga" (an R-rated fantasy epic mashing up "Romeo and Juliet" and "Star Wars," among many other influences).

This is all excellent raw material. Of course, King adaptations often feature such impressive individual parts, and only occasionally exceed the sum of them. But the "Under the Dome" pilot is quite promising.

There's the usual collection of King archetypes: the big fish in the small pond (Norris' car dealer and councilman Big Jim) who becomes drunk on his own power, the mysterious rogue with the haunted past (Vogel as an ex-military operative who calls himself Barbie), and the children who have to raise themselves (Robertson and Colin Ford as Angie and Joe, whose parents are both outside the dome when it goes up). There are ominous, puzzling phrases to be repeated as if generated by magic ("The stars are falling in lines"), and King's familiar theme of paranormal events bringing out the worst in otherwise normal human beings.

Aside from a couple of iffy performances (Alex Koch goes too creepy too quickly as Angie's estranged boyfriend Junior), the pilot's executed very well. Vaughan, director Niels Arden Oplev (who helmed the original Swedish "The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo") and the special effects team throw out one disturbing image after another, like a cow in exactly the wrong place when the dome appears, or the devastating result of a dome vs. truck collision. There are dollops of humor when necessary (a radio engineer, picking up faint signals from right outside the dome, says the jumble "sounds like Bjork"), and the leads are used well. After five seasons playing Hank on "Breaking Bad" (the last one to resume in August), Norris has earned the right to be more central to a series' action from the start, and he struts around the screen like he owns it in the same way Big Jim thinks he owns the town. And like his role as a crooked deputy on "Bates Motel," Vogel's becomes much more interesting when there's some darkness inserted beneath his all-American good looks.

I haven't read the book, nor seen past tomorrow night's episode, so I have no idea how long this premise can be sustained, and CBS is playing coy about how long, if at all, it wants "Under the Dome" to run past this summer. But the opening episode is creepy, and it explores the premise and the talent on-hand in interesting ways.

It's been a while since any of the broadcast networks has had a genuine scripted hit in summer. There are marginal performers like "Rookie Blue" that stick around because international financing justifies their ratings. But the networks have pretty much ceded scripted summer TV to their cable rivals. CBS is doing well enough in the regular season that it doesn't need "Under the Dome" to work, but I'm glad that they're trying, and that the experiment gets off to a good start tomorrow.
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Estreou ontem. Estou curioso com a série. Talvez veja hoje o primeiro episódio. O TV.com tem 8.7 e o imdb 8.1. Embora não seja excelente para um pilot, é um bom pronuncio...
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Teve a segunda melhor estreia nesta temporada, só mesmo atrás da revolution.
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Acabei por ver ontem o primeiro episódio. Tive uma horrível sensação de deja-vu à medida que os mistérios eram apresentados, de que nunca iria saber ao certo o porquê. Uma mistura de Lost com série cancelada. Já vi muitas no passado...

No entanto, gostei, e vou continuar a ver. Sou um fã dos ambientes de "small-town" que o Stephen King gosta tanto de utilizar.
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Esta série não será cancelada tão cedo, além de uma estreia brutal em termos de audiência, share de 3.3 com uma audiência de 13 milhões, a CBS com a venda da série para o estrangeiro e com um acordo com a Amazon faz com que ganhe 3 milhões por episódio, o que cobre os custos da série, isso significa que o dinheiro proveniente da publicidade, o qual é muito, será todo lucro.
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Não é nada de especial, mas vê-se bem.
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Nunca vi uma borboleta ser ordenhada tanto como até agora.

Se passarem essa transformação para a 2ª temporada deixo de ver.
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Tenho uma relação de amor-ódio com esta série. Por volta do episódio 10/11, comecei a chamar nomes a alguns personagens e a torcer para que quase todos morressem, de tão idióticos e detestáveis que se tornaram. A season finale foi "meh", com um pequeno cliff-hanger nos segundos finais. Irei ver a segunda season, mas desapontou um pouco.
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Estou igualzinho, Darkav.

E depois tinham de matar a Natalie Zea (Maxine)? Logo que a vi pela primeira vez sabia que lhe ia acontecer alguma coisa, estão sempre a matá-la nas séries.

Sim, isto tem cenas um bocado estúpidas, mesmo para o Rennie andar por ali armado em Terminator, uma ou outra morte estratégica, ok, mas assim já parece uma péssima cóboiada, dum-dum não escapa um. Os constantes jogos de apanhada para voltar tudo ao mesmo. A falta de desenvolvimento psicológico nas personagens, parece um desenho animado.

E depois os putos, são mais irritantes que sei lá o quê.

Mas sim, vou continuar a ver, por pura curiosidade, somente.

Só recentemente reparei que isto tem adaptação de Brian K. Vaughan, um escritor bem conhecido dos comic books, Y-the last man, Ex-Machina, etc... fiquei parvo, ele costuma ser mais inspirado.
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Acabei de ver esta série esta semana e posso dizer que começa bem mas acaba mal! Até tem uma premissa interessante mas perde-se completamente nos últimos episódios, que cheguei a achar infantis e pouco crediveis. Podia ter sido muito mais negra mas tornou-se nas aventuras de "Os Cinco na Cúpula"!
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Helldr wrote:Acabei de ver esta série esta semana e posso dizer que começa bem mas acaba mal! Até tem uma premissa interessante mas perde-se completamente nos últimos episódios, que cheguei a achar infantis e pouco crediveis. Podia ter sido muito mais negra mas tornou-se nas aventuras de "Os Cinco na Cúpula"!
O livro é exactamente a mesma coisa. A primeira metade é boa (chega até a ser muito boa), mas depois torna-se incompreensivelmente numa palhaçada - é penoso ler os últimos capítulos ... o-(
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Concordo com a generalidade das opiniões. Tem elementos interessantes, mas nunca são decentemente desenvolvidos. O único personagem que realmente prende é o do Dale, talvez porque não lhe conhecemos o passado, mas à medida que a série vai avançando, vem-se imbecilizando cada vez mais. Ainda não percebi se o personagem do Junior é complexo e interessante ou só irritante.

Não raras vezes isto fez-me lembrar o Jericho, só que a série do Stephen Chbosky arrepiava caminho logo no final da primeira season. Espero que esta não demore a fazê-lo, senão perderá o meu interesse totalmente.
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o Junior é mesmo irritante :mrgreen:
a historia tem potencial, mas esta personagens deitam tudo a perder

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