I've just finished watching the series, so here it goes...
First of all, I've wanted to binge watch this series for a long time now. I have been toying with the idea of watching it probably since season 1. So I started reading the book, it looked interesting, then I started watching the series. The book and series don't have too much in common, you should regard the separately.
The first season started of pretty strong, I liked the fact that Dean Norris, probably best known from Breaking Bad, played the bad guy, Big Jim Rennie and of course there is the never missing American hero protagonist, Barbie, played by none other than Mike Vogel. I didn't have problems with the acting, but I didn't quite understand the story-line. The were a lot of major plot holes and inconsistencies with regards to the plot. Jim went on random killing sprees, although everybody knew he killed of tons of citizens, he was somehow always forgiven. What really bothered me, was the random fires, somehow I can't contemplate why they had to put fires multiple times in the story-line. Couldn't they come up with something else?
In season two a lot of new characters are introduced: Sam, the town's drunk; Jane Doe, the egg lady and Rebecca, the teacher, a.k.a. the mysteriously overqualified science lady, who always has a scientific explanation for everything. The dome creates a strong magnetic field? Let's fix that with science! The micro-climate changes? The random spinning of the dome is causing in inversion in the temperature, science b**ches! The magnetic field of the dome causes the monarch butterflies to speed up their life-cycles, so let's burn down the crops to kill the caterpillars, science! Or maybe let's spread some insecticides from an airplane that will kill the caterpillars instantly! I believe the biggest problem in this sci-fi series is the fact that they try to rationalize everything.
And here comes season 3. The season that shouldn't have been made. The plot is simple: aliens infect everybody by putting the into cocoons then they all serve the kinship having a collective mind, controlled by an alien infested blonde. FYI, Marg Helgenberger's acting is terrible.
On the whole, the biggest flaws of the movie was the fact that the motives of the characters were unfathomable and story-line line was not consistent, though, I still enjoyed watching the series, because the characters were likable. I liked the ending of season 3, the cliff-hanger was a good move from the creators.
First of all, I've wanted to binge watch this series for a long time now. I have been toying with the idea of watching it probably since season 1. So I started reading the book, it looked interesting, then I started watching the series. The book and series don't have too much in common, you should regard the separately.
The first season started of pretty strong, I liked the fact that Dean Norris, probably best known from Breaking Bad, played the bad guy, Big Jim Rennie and of course there is the never missing American hero protagonist, Barbie, played by none other than Mike Vogel. I didn't have problems with the acting, but I didn't quite understand the story-line. The were a lot of major plot holes and inconsistencies with regards to the plot. Jim went on random killing sprees, although everybody knew he killed of tons of citizens, he was somehow always forgiven. What really bothered me, was the random fires, somehow I can't contemplate why they had to put fires multiple times in the story-line. Couldn't they come up with something else?
In season two a lot of new characters are introduced: Sam, the town's drunk; Jane Doe, the egg lady and Rebecca, the teacher, a.k.a. the mysteriously overqualified science lady, who always has a scientific explanation for everything. The dome creates a strong magnetic field? Let's fix that with science! The micro-climate changes? The random spinning of the dome is causing in inversion in the temperature, science b**ches! The magnetic field of the dome causes the monarch butterflies to speed up their life-cycles, so let's burn down the crops to kill the caterpillars, science! Or maybe let's spread some insecticides from an airplane that will kill the caterpillars instantly! I believe the biggest problem in this sci-fi series is the fact that they try to rationalize everything.
And here comes season 3. The season that shouldn't have been made. The plot is simple: aliens infect everybody by putting the into cocoons then they all serve the kinship having a collective mind, controlled by an alien infested blonde. FYI, Marg Helgenberger's acting is terrible.
On the whole, the biggest flaws of the movie was the fact that the motives of the characters were unfathomable and story-line line was not consistent, though, I still enjoyed watching the series, because the characters were likable. I liked the ending of season 3, the cliff-hanger was a good move from the creators.