Has anybody been watching this? We just got the first episode yesterday. I'm not really a big Stephen King fan, so I hadn't heard of the book. While this episode was kind of interesting, I'm not sure it's something I'll be watching. I would love to hear what anyone else thinks.
To a B-movie fan like me, the premise seems a bit like The Slime People (1963). Except The Slime People was ultra low budget and had no special effects what so ever, unless you count fog as a special effect.
A more obvious comparison might of course be The Simpsons Movie. One might be tempted to think that King was influenced by this, but apparently he started writing the book in the sixties but put it on backburner until some years ago.
I have to admit that Under the Dome had some cool special effects. The cow sliced in half seemed inspired of a similar effect in some horror remake a few years ago (was it House on Haunted Hill?) that had a person bisected. But cool special effects was never enough to hold my interest for very long.