‘Under the Dome’ season 2, episode 5 review: Big Jim flails as Julia’s in charge
Clearly Big Jim has learned a whole lot of nothing as he and Rebecca tried to “thin out the herd” with a virus last week on “Under the Dome”, and they have landed themselves in jail. Without a leader, will Chester’s Mill descend into chaos or will someone else step up and take control of the situation?
Julia is in charge and she is trying to organize a fair trial for Big Jim and Rebecca. The town is divided: Half the town is backing Big Jim and the other half is behind Julia.
At the town meeting, things get out of hand and Phil ends up shooting a resident, leaving Julia no choice but to take his badge and gun and he’s upset to say the least.
While Julia tries to organize a food share to help create a solution for the food shortage, Big Jim rallies people behind him (namely Phil) to blow up her support… literally blowing up the food share to create a loss of hope from the town. Phil tries to set up Julia to turn the town against her, but his plan quickly falls to pieces and we actually wonder why this plot had to happen at all. Phil has never really been this kind of character, but now he’s threatening to cut someone’s throat? from local town DJ to ruthless killer: we just don’t buy it.
Julia finds a solution to the food problem when she meets a woman in town that has a house filled with food… enough to feed the town for months. This inspires Julia to rally the town together to forgive Big Jim and Rebecca, make amends and move forward together.
Crazy Sam is still playing the town and making everyone believe that Lyle is the real villain who is trying to kill all four hands that “hold up the dome” (Norrie, Joe, Junior and Angie). Really of course it’s Sam who killed Angie, and now that Junior has told him who the other three “hands” are, he has his list of people to kill and hopes that by killing the protectors of the dome, that the dome will come down. Sam still has a conscious though, because when he has a chance to kill Junior, he balked.
Norrie and Joe have a pretty bad fight and he runs off with Melanie, where they end up kissing… a young love triangle emerges. Joe tries to fix things with Norrie, saying that he loves her, but she tells him it’s over. Sorry for your luck Joe, stop making out with the undead.
We aren’t really sure where they are going with the whole Melanie story, but the discovery of the tunnel at the back of her locker is certainly interesting. Could it be a way in and out from the dome? Episode grade: C-
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