Note: Full spoilers for Under the Dome: Season 2 follow.
As someone who enjoyed the Under the Dome series pilot -- a quote from my review of that premiere is on the Season 1 DVD set and everything -- it was painful to watch the show take an immediate dive in quality the very next episode. And then an even bigger drop in the third. The show would bounce back every so often in the first season, but the end result was that the show, after 13 episodes, had lost itself in either non-characters or extremely unlikeable characters, and random happenstance that was used to drag out the story.
13 episodes later, things have only gotten worse. And it's a shame because those viewers out there who are willing to give a show a second chance in its sophomore season are hopeful that the producers of said show have learned from their initial mistakes. That they, through whatever means, received the appropriate feedback and course corrected accordingly. There was a "reset" vibe present in the Season 2 premiere, but ultimately the killings of Angie and Linda (who weren't even the show's worst characters, by far) didn't signal a sea change. They only stood to make room for even worse characters entering the mix. Like science-bot Rebecca and instantly suspicious Sam. Sam who, from the very first shot of him looking at Melanie as she was brought out of the lake, made me think "Oh, she's been resurrected and he definitely had something to do with her past death." Which in turn made me immediately suspect him when Angie got killed forty minutes later.
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