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'Under the Dome' Recap: This Week's Most Stunningly Bad Line Readings

Unless you think it makes sense to ask someone to "build an egg detector."

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 I complained that  was suffering because too many people (Barbie, Sam, Lyle) had left the Dome via underground cliff-jump, thus defusing its strange and terrible power. This week, everyone went back to Chester's Mill via a magic Red Door, and they even brought a couple newbies with them: Big Jim's long-thought-dead wife Pauline (Sherry Stringfield) and the dopey hacker Hunter (Max Ehrich). I'm long past recapping this show as if it's actually functional

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