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Under the Dome

By Midnight Man, in Renewals,

CBS renews Under the Dome
Due to Amazon in-season streaming sales Under the Dome has been renewed for a third season. Has there been any other reason? Not that anybody can tell, the show has taken a definite nose dive in good story telling and the writers should be ashamed of themselves.

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Goodbye to Bob and goodbye to the cannibals
Gareth explains to Bob that Terminus wasn’t originally intended to be a cannibal butcher shop, but it ended up that way, not a trap. “You join us or you feed us”, that’s not much of a choice. The conversation was all one sided from Gareth until he mentioned eating Sasha and that’s when Bob springs the truth on them. He pulls his shirt collar back and starts screaming, “Tainted meat, I’m tainted meat”. This stuns the cannibals, that can’t believe that they have been eating someone that is infected. They start gagging, spitting, and one even vomits. Then the accusations fly, they might as well have been eating a walker, way to go Bob.

Three people are missing and Sasha wants some answers. She confronts Gabriel to find out if he had anything to do with their disappearance. Rick jumps in and demands that he come clean about his sins, Gabriel has a break down and admits to leaving people outside the church when the walkers came, he buried the bones of all dead ones after it was all done, for anybody, especially a priest that is certainly a reason to burn.

They find Bob lying outside the church, he explains to them what happened to him and that he had gotten bitten at the food bank, he also informs them that Carol and Daryl were seen driving off. Abraham sees the Terminus gang as a clear threat to Eugene’s safety and wants to leave, now, and he’s taking that bus and no one, not even Rick, is going to stop him. Rick and Abraham get into an argument about the bus that almost comes to blows, fortunately Glenn steps in and offers up himself and Maggie as payment if Abraham agrees to stay and fight off the cannibals, Abraham gives them twelve hours. This brings up a question, Rick vs. Abraham, who would win. Abraham is obviously some kind of super soldier, but Rick Grimes is one crazy Son of a Bitch.

Bob told them that the cannibals are at a school and Gabriel tells them where it is so that they can go on the offensive. Rick, Abraham, Sasha, Glenn, Maggie, and Tara leave to go to the school. Meanwhile, the Terminus gang is on its way to the church. When they get there, those that did not go to the school lock themselves in the back room. Gareth and his gang break in and Gareth begins to taunt them by naming off all the people that he knows are there and that most of the strong ones have left; they get all the way to the back of the church and ready to break down the door when two of the cannibal’s heads explode from silent gunshot. It’s Rick, with a silencer on his pistol, he tells them to lower their guns. Gareth points to the door and starts to argue; Rick isn’t in any mood for conversation and shoots his fingers off from all the way across the room. Rick confronts Gareth, now on his knees and Gareth attempts to wriggle his way out of the situation, but Rick isn’t having any of that. Besides, he made Gareth a promise to kill him with the red handled machete, which he pulls from his belt. What a fantastically brutal scene is shown as Rick slices Gareth to pieces while the others of his gang are stabbed or beaten to death.

When it’s all over Michonne looks down and sees it, one of the cannibals had kept it and it was sticking out of one of the backpacks, she has her sword back, which is a fantastic happenstance for this episode because, let’s face it, Michonne is not Michonne without her sword. Of course Bob dies, and Tyreese is forced to finish him off to ensure that he doesn’t become a walker because his sister, Sasha, was in love with him and just can’t do it. The first time he has killed (except for the walkers outside the shed) since Carol was forced to kill Lizzy and he lost the stomach for it, and Bob was his friend. Abraham, Rosita, Eugene, Glenn, Maggie, and Tara all pile in the bus and are off to Washington. Rick and the rest await the return of Carol and Daryl, but only Daryl returns, but he brings a hidden friend. Who could it be?

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Oh Beth, Beth, wherefore art thou
Beth wakes up in Grady Memorial Hospital, in Atlanta. She’s been treated for injuries and she is well now, but she soon finds out that those that rescued and have treated her want something in return. She is forced to help treat, care for, and possibly even dispose of the patients that reside in the hospital. She is also required to attend to those that live in and run the hospital. And anything and everything that she consumes has a cost attached to it and soon realizes that she is caught up in an existence that equates to little more than slavery.

She meets a nice guy, a doctor, and even though he’s caught up in the same trap that she is, he has been there from the beginning. He explains to her what it was like when it all started and why he doesn’t leave. How the city fell when it was bombed and that they found a kid that had napalm burns. He made a deal to save the kid with limited resources and that the kid would make up for what was given him with services. He takes her to the first floor of the hospital, which is over run by walkers and tells her that with the world the way that it is, “its better in here than it is out there”.

She also meets the woman in charge, Dawn, who has facilitated the rescue of many that now reside and work at the hospital. Unfortunately, she is also somewhat of a control freak, that is hell-bent on convincing and/or forcing anyone that is at the hospital to stay and work for the little community that she and others have built there. She is borderline ruthless, but is convinced that it can work if everyone does their part.

Gorman is the bad one. He, like all those in charge is dressed in the garb that is typical of an Atlanta police officer, complete with communication equipment, a badge, and of course, a gun. Although, he doesn’t completely conform to the idea of what a police officer should be. He believes that those in charge should get anything that they want and he has taken his privilege with several women and he also believes that Beth should belong to him. He catches Beth in a precarious situation trying to steal a key from Dawn’s office, to make her escape, and tries to blackmail her into being ‘nice’ to him. Unfortunately for him, and out of his line of sight, there is another resident in that office, Joan, another resident of the hospital that has been forced into servitude , that has previously killed herself and begins to turn into one of the walking dead. As he and Beth talk, he pushes her up against the office desk. She bashes him over the head with a jar full of lollypops and throws him down on it, she times it just right because the moment that he hits the desk Joan jumps up and bites him in the neck, and blood goes everywhere. While Gorman is being eaten by Joan, Beth casually leaves the room as if nothing has happened. Now that is poetic justice.

Noah, yet another resident of the hospital that has been forced into servitude, is the one that came up with the escape plan and convinced Beth to steal the key. Originally, both he and his father were both rescued by Dawn and her cohorts. Dawn claims that his father died in an attempt to treat him, but Noah has come to believe that they killed his father because they believed that he would have been able to oppose them and would have fought back. As he and Beth attempt their escape they run into a few problems, climbing down an elevator shaft, the dark places of the first floor, and avoiding walkers. Noah makes it, but Beth is left behind and is forced to stay.

After the doctor patches Beth back up from the injury that she sustained from Dawn for her attempted escape, and helping Noah, she confronts him about a patient that she accidentally killed because he gave her the wrong information about treating him. She finds out that he purposely gave her that wrong information in order to kill that patient because he was another doctor and felt that he would be less valuable to Dawn if he wasn’t the only doctor that resided there. As she walked down the hall toward the doctor she had an implement in her hand, supposedly to attack the doctor, but then she sees them bring in another patient on a gurney, its Carol, someone that she knows.

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Eugene comes clean and may not live through it
Abraham and Eugene are an unusual pair, to say the least. One is a genius and the other a soldier. They are on a mission to get Eugene to Washington and hopefully save the world. Unfortunately, Eugene is a coward. He is a scientist with the answer to why the dead walk the earth, or so he says. They met immediately following a very traumatic incident that haunts Abraham and nearly drove him to suicide, but meeting Eugene and hearing his story once again gave him purpose and a reason to live.

The bus that they now ride in, after their time at the church with Rick and his clan, is doomed. Eugene has sabotaged it to slow them down because he believes that he is worthless without the belief that he can save the world, but he can’t. It has all been a lie from the beginning. When he first met Abraham he felt it was necessary to make up the story to get protection and now he believes that the longer it takes them to get to their destination the longer Abraham will protected him, and the longer he will stay alive. The bus wreck was somewhat horrific and flips over on its side, and believe it or not, no one was seriously injured or killed. They climbed out of the bus, fighting walkers the whole way, and Eugene actually stabbed a walker. Granted he stabbed it in the wrong place and wouldn’t have done it without the coaching from Tara, but he did it, he summoned up the courage and he did it.

They bedded down in a book store over night and the next day fond a fire truck as a means of transport. While prepping the fire truck for operation they pulled it away from the fire house door, which released a torrent of walkers and they were once again being attacked. They were overwhelmed and all seemed lost until Eugene let loose with the fire hose nozzle on top of the truck to save the day.

While on the road the truth about Eugene comes out in an argument to move forward, Abraham is forcefully determined not to stop, not to back track, and not to reverse course, no matter the circumstances. Washington is the goal and nothing else matters, until Eugene comes clean about his true intentions, and when he does, Abraham explodes with ferocious anger directed at him for his dissemination. With two left crosses and an elbow uppercut to his face Abraham takes him down, possibly for good. Then Abraham is seen to once again slip into the mindset that he was in when he first met Eugene. The mission is over because it never truly existed and therefore his purpose and sole reason to stay alive were both nothing but a fabrication that is now all washed away by the truth.

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Carol, the toughest dog in the pack
This one’s all about Carol, we finally get to see what happened to her after Rick ejected her from the prison. This episode bounces back and forth between different times when she was on her own and when she is with Daryl looking for Beth. This proves that she is a strong woman and perfectly capable of taking care of herself.
She and Daryl follow the car with the white cross into the city. They hold up for a night at a place that is familiar to Carol, a temporary housing unit that she had once stayed at when she was with her husband, the one that beat her. While there they discover some walkers that can’t get at them. Carol wants to take care of them, but Daryl convinces her to leave them be. When she wakes up in the morning she finds that he has taken care of them and is burning the bodies. With everything that has happened and the way he has reacted around Carol, being brought to tears when he seen her again after escaping Terminus, following her out of the church during the feast to watch over her, and now with allowing her to get some much needed rest by taking care of these walkers himself it is obvious that he is very much in love with her. It’s a wonder that she doesn’t know.

They set out on the quest to find clues to where the car with the white cross went, they search for a place high up so that they can get a good look around the city. As they scurry through the ruins from building to building trying to stay in the shadows Daryl uses fire to distract the walkers. They make their way into an office building through a parking garage and once in one of the offices they stand in front of the window looking for signs that might point them in the right direction and they take a moment to have a brief philosophical conversation about how the world got like this, and Daryl uses the F word to describe his feelings on the matter. Of course AMC cuts it and if you’re not attentive you’ll miss it. His exact words are, “The reason I said we get to start over is cause we gotta, f*** the way it was”. Then he sees it, a wrecked van teetering over the railing of a bridge that has those same white crosses on its windows, a clue, the only clue that they have.

On their way out of the building they meet Noah, the one that Beth helped escape from the hospital. He doesn’t want to hurt them, he only wants their weapons. As he is running away Carol aims her pistol at him and shoots, Daryl knocks it away to prevent her killing him. They take pursuit but get blocked by a door that Noah locks behind him. They make their way out of the building with Carol bitching the whole way about being in the middle of the city with only three bullets and that she was just going to shoot him in the leg. Daryl assures her that they can find more weapons and counters with the fact that he was just a damn kid. In the middle of the argument, as Daryl jimmies a door open, a book falls out of one of the backpacks, a book that Carol put there, as he picks it up he reads the title. It says, “Treating Survivors of Childhood abuse”.

When they finally make it to the van Daryl carefully climbs inside, Carol follows. He finds information that leads them to believe that the van comes from Grady Memorial hospital, but getting off the bridge the way that they came is a bust because they are over run by walkers. They have no choice but to crawl back into the van and use their weight to push it over the side. When the van hits the bottom, like a cat, it lands on all fours and neither one is killed or even seriously injured, go figure. On the bright side, at least we don’t lose two good characters from the show. Also, the really cool thing about this scene is that right after it hits the bottom several walkers hit the top of the van, presumably from walking off the side of the bridge after the van, which confirms that, yes, walkers are really dumb.

They continue on their quest to find Beth, only now they believe that they need to find Grady Memorial hospital. They stop in an ally for a rest and aside from a few bumps and bruises they seem to be Okay. Although, Carol is not looking well and seems to be in a great deal of pain. Daryl offers her a drink and she can only lift her left arm so he wants to see her injury. She lifts the right edge of her shirt and exposes a serious collar bruise that reaches all the way down her chest that suspiciously follows the same track as a passenger seat belt. She claims that she’s had worse and besides they’re only three blocks away from the hospital.

They find another building that is very near the hospital and once inside again stand at a window and have a philosophical conversation. This time it’s about how different they are compared to when they first met and this time Daryl refrains from the cursing. Before they can finish their conversation they hear a noise and go to investigate. They find a walker nailed to a wall by a crossbow arrow and it turns out to be one from the crossbow that was stolen from Daryl, by Noah. He uses a machete that he found to take care of the walker and then retrieves the arrow. Then follow the sound of gunfire from down the hall, it is Noah, and he’s fighting off a walker and pushes it toward Carol. She has a knife in her right hand but can’t lift it high enough to stab it in the head because of her injury. Daryl saves her and then proceeds down the hall in the direction that Noah went. He finds Noah pushing an empty book shelf up against a door to block yet another walker, Daryl attacks him. During the scuffle the book shelf falls on top of Noah and Daryl wants to leave him there for walker fodder, Carol insists that they help, and Daryl shoots an arrow through the head of the walker.

After Noah is saved he thanks them, but insists that they leave because the people from the hospital would have heard the shots and will be coming and he is not going back there. And this is where they find out that Beth ‘is’ there and he tells them that she helped him escape. As they are leaving, but before they can get out the door, Noah falls and Daryl goes to help him leaving Carol in the lead. Once out the door and in the street she gets run down by one of the hospital cars that break out a stretcher to take her away and Noah holds Daryl back telling him that the hospital people can help her and if he goes out there he will have to kill them and then they won’t be able to help her. Noah tells him that they can get her back and save Beth but it’s going to take a lot because they have guns and people, and then Daryl looks at him and says, “So do we’, Because he knows just the people that are armed and would be willing to help rescue them.

As was stated in the first paragraph this is the episode that shows us what happened to Carol after Rick ejected her from the prison. We get to see flashbacks of the time immediately after her ejection, how she survived and what she did. How she almost had a break down but refused to quite. How she found a place to stay that was close to the prison, seen the smoke coming from that area and investigated to find it destroyed and all of her friends gone. We also see a scene of her and Tyreese burying the girls after she was forced to kill Lizzy to insure that she wouldn’t harm Judith. And then further back we see a scene of her actually burning the bodies of the two people that she killed at the prison in an attempt to prevent the spread of illness. The last scene that is shown of Carol by herself is the time right after she left Terminus when she caused all the chaos to allow all of her friends to get away, when Tyreese and Judith were waiting for her at the shed. All these flashbacks just prove one thing, that she is tough as nails, able to survive, and will stop at nothing to help the ones that she loves and considers family.

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The season opener, where we find out what Terminus really is.
The last we seen of our friends that live among the walking dead, they had reached the famed Terminus, where they discovered that their friends had already been there, or were still there, and they weren’t anywhere in sight. A battle ensues and before you know it our friends are trapped in a boxcar. And, of course, we pick it up right where we left off.

We also get an insight as to why the sanctuary people are the way that they are, “You’re either the butcher or the cattle”. Cannibalism, it’s a wonder that it took five seasons for this part of the human psyche to rear its ugly head. We’ve seen our friends go through many hardships to get to this point. They have had to kill to find shelter, they have had to kill to find their friends, and they have even had to kill to find food, but they have not, in all this time, ever eaten human flesh.

The slaughterhouse scenes are rather gruesome though, certainly not for the faint of heart. Eight men bound and gagged forced to hang their heads over a trough as two Terminus people stand behind them, one with a baseball bat and one with a large knife. Both clad in plastic aprons to deflect blood splatter, one smacks them in the head with the bat and the other slices their throats with the knife as the blood drains down the trough. Four are gruesomely killed and just before they get to the fifth person, Glenn, their leader, Gareth, comes in to get an ammunition count. Bob, Rick, Daryl, and Glenn are left kneeling before the trough. Bob tries to reason with them, to no avail and the leader kneels down in front of Rick and wants to know what he did with the big bag that the spotters seen him go into the woods with and furthermore wants to know what’s in it. Rick rattles off the things that are in the bag and at the end he looks Gareth square in the eyes and says, “There is a machete with a red handle, and that’s what I’m going to use to kill you”. Gareth laughs and puts the gag back on Rick so the slaughter can continue. Suddenly shots ring out somewhere in the compound and there is an explosion. After Gareth leaves to investigate Rick breaks free, kills the bat guy and the knife guy with a wooden steak that he hid in his sock and made at the box car, and sets his friends free. As they look for weapons to fight their way out they see the rest of the slaughterhouse. A trimmed down torso hanging from a hook and cut up human bodies lying on stainless steel tables shouldn’t be anyone’s idea of their next meal, but apparently to the Terminus dwellers, it is. Daryl said it best when he expressed his opinion about them when he answered Bob’s query about what kind of people they are, he said, “these ain’t people”, and he was absolutely correct about that. They’re animals, which have no regard for their fellow human beings. How vile, although a fantastic Walking Dead scenario to open a season.

Carol is the wild card here; it seems that the people of the sanctuary pulled their spotters back just a little too soon. She has been looking for her friends for some time now and she’s not going to let them die. Shooting the gas tank was an absolutely outstanding idea, and a good scene. Burning walkers infiltrating that compound made for a good escape plan and we actually get to see one eating a man’s face. She dirties herself up with blood and guts to go along with the herd as it swamps Terminus and she takes out a few gunners along the way. As she searches through one of the buildings she scavenges a few things, but before she can make good her escape she meets a woman that wants her dead, they brawl with Carol coming out on top with a shot to the woman’s leg. The woman begs Carol to finish the job with a shot to her head, but Carol’s not having any of that and opens the door so the walkers can get at her.

Before Carol hit the compound, she and Tyreese met a man at a little shed setting off fireworks to distract the walkers away from Terminus. Tyreese was left to guard him and now the man has gotten free and got his hands on Judith and threatens to break her neck if Tyreese doesn’t go outside and face the walkers, which he does to spare the baby from death. He kills all the walkers outside and comes storming back in screaming, “I won’t, I won’t, I won’t”, meaning he’s not going to kill, but he is so mad that he almost beats the man to death.

Rick and the other three men make their way back to the boxcar and release the others and they all make their way out of the Terminus compound. There they meet up with Carol. She takes them to the shed and Rick and Carl are reunited with Judith, the first time they have seen her since the fight with the Governor at the prison. The family is together again.

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Some old members rejoin the group, and a new one finds his way in.
Carol, Tyreese, and Judith have rejoined the group, or rather, the group has rejoined them, depends on which way you look at it. Rick actually asked Carol if his group could join her’s, probably because of the guilt that he feels over ejecting her from the prison. Although, it doesn’t seem like Carol wants to stay. She finds a serviceable vehicle while out on a water gathering trip with Daryl and sneaks away during their little feast at the church, but Daryl is not going to let her get away. He follows her and when he catches up they get buzzed by the car with the white cross that kidnapped Beth and they take pursuit.

Rick accepts Tara into the group, even though she was with the Governor, and she admits to Maggie that she was with the people that killed her father and Maggie decides to let sleeping dogs lie and accepts her as well. She is becoming a solid member of the group now and seems perfectly capable of supporting others and taking care of herself.

Abraham, the soldier, takes the feast at the church as an opportunity to make a speech about going to Washington and curing the world. He seems hell-bent on that purpose and considers any delay a detriment to that purpose. Finding a bus at the church was a God send and he’s not going to let anyone stand in his way. During his speech he gets everyone to agree to join his mission, even Judith, but there is someone lurking in the shadows watching them.

The lurkers turn out to be Gareth and a few others left over from Terminus that have been following Rick and his clan. They kidnap Bob for a meal on the road, as it were. They amputate his leg and have their version of a bar-b-cue. They seem to be just as sadistic and vile as they were when they were at the sanctuary. Among these is Martin, the young man from the shed. The one that threatened to break Judith’s neck if Tyreese didn’t comply with his wishes, the one that Tyreese claimed to have killed. Fortunately, Carol is not around to see that he lied about killing this one, and no one else ever seen him, except Judith, and it’s doubtful that she will ever tell anyone. By the way, the newest member of the group, the priest Gabriel, has a secret and it’s a bad one, one that he is going to burn for.

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CBS Cancels The Millers

By Midnight, in Cancellations,

The comedy was cancelled four episodes into Season 2.
It has been reported that CBS has cancelled The Millers just four episodes into its second season. The sophomore comedy has struggled in the ratings so far this fall after moving to a new time slot on Monday nights.

Word is that production has already been halted, with this coming Monday's episode possibly being its last.
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TNT Cancels Perception

By Midnight, in Cancellations,

The crime drama will not return for Season 4.
It is being reported that TNT has cancelled Perception after three seasons. The Eric McCormack procedural is the second show the network has axed this week.

Though ratings were slightly down in Season 3 compared to Season 2, reasons for Perception's cancellation are unclear. The move could be in part related to TNT's recently-stated desire to transition to edgier programming under new president Kevin Reilly.

Look for the remaining episodes in Perception's third season to air in February 2015.
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The legal dramedy did not get a fifth season.
It has been reported that TNT has cancelled Franklin & Bash after four seasons. Its most recent season, which ended last month, saw a significant ratings drop of over 50% from previous seasons. That viewership dip, combined with the network's recent desire to transition to edgier programming, likely factored into its cancellation.
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