An article at LA Times runs with the headline, "CBS' 'Under the Dome' bringing thrills from King, Spielberg" and under that, "The thriller is a rare and big-budgeted summer foray for the network, which is counting on special effects and names like Stephen King and Steven Spielberg to draw interest." . . . I think they like it.
Steven Zeitchik says that CBS is "attempting a tricky creative feat: big-budget genre storytelling with intimate insights about humans in crisis."
By the way, he also notes UTD and The Simpsons contain similar themes. Well, both have a great big dome put over their town. But come on, Stephen King's characters aren't yellow!
And then there is this word of real hope for those of us who would like a better explanation for the dome itself:
All of them must solve the mystery — possibly supernatural, possibly conspiratorial — of the dome while negotiating the paranoia and in-fighting that sets in during a hometown emergency. Think "Lost," only this time the island comes to them.I think CBS has come up with a new answer to the dome. Don't have a clue what it is, but I'm willing to bet it's a different direction than the book went.
The Time article is at latimes.com/entertainment
(I saw the article link first at www.liljas-library.com)
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