| Television Hemisphere Factor In the Stephen King adaptation Under the Dome, a small town gets stuck, uh, under a dome. By Troy Patterson
Posted Monday, Jun 24, 2013, at 01:00 PM ET  The 2009 Stephen King novel Under the Dome concerns a small town abruptly sundered from the rest of America by a transparent hemispherical membrane of seeming supernatural origin. To visualize this, imagine the surface of the Earth as the flat surface of a footed cake plate and the dome as the thingie atop it. Does the phrase Glass Cloche Encounters capture the spirit of the book? Would an invocation of The Simpsons' Trappuccino be more apt? These questions are not rhetorical; really, I'm asking, for in describing the premise of this thousand-page novel, I also have defined the only circumstances under which I would read it. Sorry, but I haven't even gotten to The Stand yet, and the pilot episode of Brian K. Vaughan's television adaptation of Under the Dome (CBS) is a very good advertisement for seeing what else is on TV this Monday at 10 p.m. The series does itself no favors with an introductory sequence that wanly recalls Twin Peaks as it introduces the characters and their situations. Highly skeptical, eyebrows growling, I witnessed an eerie close-up of a bird on a limb, a bit of music recalling Angelo Badalamenti, a waitress post-coitally slipping into a mint-green diner dress to work a shift at a failing restaurant. … My notes say I saw a corpse wrapped in plastic, but that might just have a figment of hypnotic suggestion, a vision conjured by the other sounds and images—genre-markers saying, "Welcome to the Superficially Cozy ... To continue reading, click here.
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