PhantomStranger

I didn't really care one way or the other on renewal, as I figured it would get renewed due to its ratings. The show so far has shown no intelligent foresight in plotting out an arc and the general lack of quality in the writing indicates to me there was never much of a long-term plan to begin with.

Rob V

^^ This is kind of like doing a 13 episode show on Cujo and then having a second season where another dog traps some people or the people stay trapped --- but longer. Everyone wants to know what is the dome, why is it here??? Instead we get a second season of nonsensical story lines that will flirt with theories but never get to the asinine ending.

Backlog

Like so many others, I'm done with the announcement of a second season. I expect the ratings will hold up for the remainder of the first season, since the general public is ignorant to things like renewals, but season 2 will probably be a ratings failure. There will no doubt be a good deal of outrage when the origin of the dome isn't revealed in the season 1 finale.

Deftones

hmmm. i'm now trying to figure out if i want to read how the book ends and what the dome is since this is going to continue next season. i assumed it would be a one off series, so we'd find out what happened.

TGM

I would love for the end of S1 to show the removal of the dome, and while everyone is rejoicing in the street it is replaced by an invisible cube, cut to black.

Xiroteus

The joy of ten months between seasons so things can feel even longer. It feels padded enough being a thirteen episode series with this concept. It is okay to have limited series networks!

I likely will watch based on just being curious, the concept is not strong enough for season(S).

Just about.

It was going to be bad enough as it is, now it will likely be at least a year before anyone knows what it is. Or it will just be canceled on a cliffhanger as that is what networks do to half their shows.

Television here has no idea for the most part how to just tell a limited story, more then a movie less then a series. I really like that idea if someone could ever do it right. A concept like this could really be even be six or seven episodes and tell their story, not several seasons.

Joe Schmoe

2nd season, huh? I'd be excited by this news if I really enjoyed the characters, but the only thing keeping me coming back is pure curiosity about the dome itself. I suppose now they'll prolong the mystery of what it is, where it came from and if it can be removed well beyond the Season 1 finale. Don't know that I have that much patience left for it.

TheKing

What the hell is wrong with the TV world when people are complaining that a show gets RENEWED?

I just don't get why people would rather see CBS air reruns than new episodes. Sorry, but I see this as great news. A scripted summer series based in the US being renewed by an OTA network for a second season? Can you even name the last time that happened?

I don't mind the Canadian imports we've gotten over the last few years, but it's nice to see a US show actually succeed in the summer.

What's worse, you're complaining about things that you have no idea about. How do you know they aren't going to give answers by the end of the season? They could go in a completely different direction for Season 2. I mean you guys are acting like this is the season 1 finale of The Killing here. By the way, renewing The Killing did give us a pretty solid Season 3 for that show. I'm not saying what they did at the end of Season 1 was a good idea (it wasn't and Season 2 sucked because of it), I'm saying that renewing a show doesn't mean the storytelling has to fail.

6 Seasons and a movie!

slop101

The problem is that the show's already shit the bed so bad, it can not recover. No one cares about the characters and that is the main problem.

Xiroteus

I have been thinking or saying for years that not every concept needs to be dragged out for multiple seasons. There are many shows that it works for while others work better with either shorter seasons or should be a limited series.

I would be much happier with this concept being a limited series as the entire time I am basically waiting to find out why the dome is there and I rather not wait five seasons to find out. Likely not worth the wait nor being dragged out that long.

I know other counties are better about mini series, the states seem to hate the concept when it would be great to have some of them for stories that need more then two hours yet less then seasons.

A few are okay yet not sure how I care if anything happens to most of them.

DJariya

I have to believe that the streaming deal with Amazon also played a key part in the show getting renewed.

A lot of misconceptions about this show. Some bad reporting by the media calling this a "Miniseries." I found this Deadline article from May with quotes from the Producers:

http://www.deadline.com/2013/05/summ...cbs-long-road/

DJariya

Nobody who works on the show or even any of the actors said that this was a miniseries. That was just a bad assumption by some people in the media.

Dean Norris was on Jimmy Kimmel before it premiered and he even said it would hopefully be on ongoing series.

I read another article from Brian Vaughan and he said the ending of the series, whenever it is, is going to be completely different from the book.

Xiroteus

It seems like it is loosely based on the book which then could be said to almost be based on the concept of a dome which a few series stories have done. Maybe some assumed it was a limited series because the concept does not call for any more then that without tons of padding or people acting ridiculous. Then there is the horrible time table of being off for nine to ten months likely ending on a cliffhanger.

Joe Schmoe

I thought tonight's episode (7/29) was decent because we finally saw some fighting and looting that I thought was long overdue. I hope just because it rained inside the dome that the people of Chester's Mill don't go back to being nice. There's still limited food supplies, medicine, etc., so people should still be very selfish, possessive and willing to commit crimes they wouldn't commit under normal circumstances. I'd love it if life for these people were depicted as brutally and hardcore as life is depicted on The Walking Dead, but I know that will never happen on a show that airs on CBS.

I'm glad the girl didn't end up back in Big Jim's bunker since I grew tired of the kidnapping story awhile ago. I'm sure the guy with all the water is going to get taken out soon (probably by Big Jim) since he's being a dick about sharing it. I found it hard to believe that the red head suddenly cared for Barbie. Wasn't it just yesterday that she was suspicious of him and told him to get out of her house? Now she's sucking face with him?

Abob Teff

Budget cuts for the second season will not leave enough in the special effects budget for a cube. Maybe a pyramid?

Jadzia

Angie has the worst luck of any character since Sarah Paulson's in American Horror Story: Asylum.

Recap:
Imprisoned by boyfriend
Found by boyfriend's father, but imprisoned again
Let go by boyfriend's father
Found by boyfriend
Escapes boyfriend
Beat up by looters, nearly raped
Rescued, then given to boyfriend's father

The writers must really hate her.

OldDude

This show has never-ending "Perils of Pauline" quality to it. I wanted it to wrap up, not have a 2nd season. Not sure I'm up for that.

Rob V

Because when you stretch out a concept based on ratings, you get S6 of Lost --- a shit-ton of stuff that doesn't apply and forces new characters and concepts that aren't necessary. The cause of the dome is the single point of the show... no need to give us 2, 3 or 4 seasons of anarchy, health deterioration or civil war when they can just give the answer at week 13.

Rob V

Not as much as King did in his book

wishbone

I finally threw in the towel and read a synopsis of the book's plot and spoilers. I might catch future episodes, I might not, but this show really does not interest me anymore.

DJariya

Agree. Plus, her walking into that restaurant pretty much led to the owner getting killed.

I enjoyed last night's episode. It was good actually seeing Chesters Mill go into some sort of anarchy with the looting and people beating each other up for the dwindling supplies.

The only thing that I cringed seeing was Barbie and Julia hook up, which was inevitable. That was pretty damn cheesy.

Navinabob

Being an insulin dependent diabetic, a natural disaster where I can't get insulin is a nightmare of mine. I'm glad the show covered it. However, they should have consulted someone with the disease before making it a plot point. The kid had about a years worth of insulin there, typically you don't get that much at a time because it gets tricky to keep it viable after about 6 months. Also, at the end of the show they called the entire bottle they got "one dose" which is goofy.

aynrandgirl

Can you really amass an insulin supply that large? Prescription pharmaceuticals are so tightly controlled these days that getting even slightly ahead on your refills gets you flagged, no matter your innocent intent.

Lack of power, and thus refrigeration, is going to shorten that time considerably.

A lot of people are going to get unhealthy or dead very quickly from lack of meds, especially the elderly.

MikahC

If you're diabetic and run out of insulin, consider not eating any carbs.

Navinabob

Yeah, that and drink lots of water. However, that just stalls the process. Eventually everything you eat turns into sugar. I don't take insulin if I just eat a steak and salad, but I have to check my levels about 6 hours later and set my pump to give me a dose to correct the amount I've gone up from the protein.

But even if you don't eat your body still will produce sugar as it uses up fat storage in the body.

I would probably restrict my eating to just tiny amounts of proteins and fat to ward off total starvation as long as I could and let my pump just tread water enough to keep me alive. But, once my test strips run out I'll be guessing my levels...