Usually, when a series ends these days without finality – or at least the creators being able to clearly put their finishing imprimatur on it – there is understandable griping, like reading a novel without a final chapter. The most risible moments in the closing weeks involved Barbie talking semi-affectionately about his “daughter,” like she wasn’t an alien who had preternaturally grown to adulthood and become a duplicate of the woman with whom he’d been sleeping not so very long ago. Written by exec producers Neal Baer and Tim Schlattmann, the hour featured several key deaths – which included Jim having to kill his own Kinship-controlled son (Alexander Koch) – but the series had veered so far off the rails it was hard to care. Besides, when Big Jim (“Breaking Bad’s” Dean Norris) said wryly, “I’ve seen enough bad movies to know” the Queen might have survived if there wasn’t a body, well, after three seasons, he really should know.
That allowed for a one-year flash forward, and the fleeting possibility that the Dome’s captives might really move on with their lives, with Barbie and Julia (Rachelle Lefevre) finally settling down.īut no, there were too many minutes left in the episode to buy that, and of course the hour ended on a cryptic note, with the Queen resurfacing, even finding a new egg. In the finale (and SPOILER ALERT if you haven’t watched), Barbie seemingly caused the Queen to plummet to her death, after Joe (Colin Ford) sacrificed himself to bring the Dome down.Īt that point, the government came rushing in, determined to sweep the whole aliens-among-us thing under the, er, rug. First that title belonged to Marg Helgenberger’s character, then Kylie Bunbury’s Eva, who mated with Barbie (Mike Vogel) to produce a perfect replica of herself, only with light eyes and a hipster wig. Like any good bug-like alien invader, that also meant birthing a Queen. And while the concept was intriguing, season one signaled some of the problems to come, even before this season’s absurd pod-people twist, introducing an alien-influenced cabal, The Kinship, which exercised control within the Dome and gave birth to a plucky resistance. As observed at the outset, Stephen King concepts generally haven’t fared terribly well on television, with a few notable exceptions (“The Stand” comes to mind).
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