

For starters, it would add a sinister relevance to her otherwise vacant look, and perpetual damsel-in-distress routine. The notion just puts so much about her character in a more sensible context. I’m starting to hope that Melanie turns out to be a villain, of some kind. With Big Jim not being an option, and Junior now under her influence (not a difficult task, let’s be real), Melanie took steps to reclaim her position as the original Egg sitter. Since life under the Dome has become a matter of choosing which of the Dome’s chosen gets your faith (and knee-jerk swing decisions), Julia’s prioritizing of Barbie shook Melanie’s faith in her. If Rebecca was becoming self-conscious about her MacGyver role, then Melanie was filling Rebecca’s original role, as the disillusioned acolyte. Oddly enough, it was Rebecca ( Karla Crome) showing a bit of self-awareness, this episode, by calling out Julia (and I suppose Big Jim, by extension) on using her as the go-to-science-solution, while still keeping her at arms length. The play also put him on the same page as Julia, as they both seemed perfectly willing to throw away ordained principle for personal concerns. Big Jim ( Dean Norris) opted to make a deal, through one of Don’s hired guns, to get himself & Junior out, in exchange for the Egg so maybe being Dome Messiah isn’t enough for him, after all. Junior ( Alexander Koch) filled his face-palm quota by first tipping off his dad about the matter, then thinking better of it, and running off with the Egg – along with Melanie. Julia ( Rachelle Lefevre) was seriously considering giving up the Egg for Barbie, which didn’t sit well with Melanie ( Grace Victoria Cox). Under the Dome, Don’s ploy was making waves. ‘Team Barline’ was off to re-enter the Dome. Between Hunter – who brought his own extra to the meet – as a common asset, Pauline’s Red Door post-card giving them a common goal, and Don serving as a common threat, Barbie & Pauline joined forces. It seems the art of deflection clearly isn’t confined to Chester’s Mill, as Pauline quickly looked past Sam’s wrong doings, and just added them to her personal mission pile. This set the stage for Barbie’s rude reunion with Sam ( Eddie Cahill) & Lyle ( Dwight Yoakam), and with it, Sam’s crimes finally coming to Pauline’s attention. The latest convenience had Hunter ( Max Ehrich) being a star pupil of Pauline ( Sherry Stringfield). Don did have other cards to play, as Barbie’s capture generated enough leverage, between the Dome’s two competing chosen, to put the Egg on the negotiation block.Īs ridiculous as the divinity of the Dome angle has been, it does serve to explain what would otherwise just be contrived storytelling. The convergence of the Zenith arc’s two threads, however, threw a wrench in the works. to reveal the entrance portal to Chester’s Mill. Of course this was what Don had in mind – he probably had a better appreciation for that ‘A New Hope’ ruse than his son did – as the idea was for Barbie & co.

For his son, Barbie ( Mike Vogel), that meant escaping private contractor custody, and getting back to the Zenith underground (aka Hounds of Diana) with a better idea of what his dad was up to. Under the Dome: Season 2, Episode 9: ‘The Red Door’ brought the Zenith arc back to the Dome, as the keep away mission, to prevent Don ( Brett Cullen) from getting the Egg, kicked into gear.
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You May Also Like.CBS ‘ Under the Dome The Red Door TV Show Review. But their main adversary is the Dome itself. Against them stands Big Jim Rennie, a politician who will stop at nothing-even hug-to hold the reins of power, and his son, who is keeping a horrible secret in a dark pantry.

No one can fathom what this barrier is, where it came from, and when-or if-it will go away.ĭale Barbara, Iraq vet and now a short-order cook, finds himself teamed with a few intrepid citizens-town newspaper owner Julia Shumway, a physician's assistant at the hospital, a select-woman, and three brave kids. Planes crash into it and fall from the sky in flaming wreckage, a gardener's hand is severed as 'the dome' comes down on it, people running errands in the neighboring town are divided from their families, and cars explode on impact. On an entirely normal, beautiful fall day in Chester's Mill, Maine, the town is inexplicably and suddenly sealed off from the rest of the world by an invisible force field. While Joe and Norrie try to find the missing mini-dome, Big Jim receives a visitor from a past and organizes a voluntary program to collect guns from the townspeople. After she has a seizure, Junior shows Angie a painting his mother made that sheds some light on the secrets of the Dome.
