Under the Dome: where to start reading
Adapts Under the Dome by Stephen King. Say how far you watched, and pick the book up exactly there.
at Under the Dome.
The first season borrows the setup, the town, and several characters, but King himself noted it varies considerably from the book and reimagines the source of the dome. In the novel the dome lasts only about a week; the show stretches it far longer. Reading the novel gives you the real story, which the show only loosely follows.
Season 1 leaves off about 50% in. Pick the book up right there:
Under the Dome
What the show changed here
- ChangedThe book's roughly week-long crisis is stretched across seasons, so the show quickly outruns the span of the novel.
- ChangedBarbie is reintroduced as a drifter collecting debts for a bookie, rather than the short-order cook working for Rose in the book.
- InventedAngie, barely present in the novel's first pages, is expanded into a series regular, and a new character, Maxine, is invented for the show.
- CutAs a network drama it tones down the book's graphic violence at the dome's edge.
Only the first season loosely adapts Stephen King's 2009 novel, and even then it reimagines the dome's source. Seasons 2 and 3 leave the book behind entirely, inventing new characters, aliens (the Kinship), an egg, and resurrection arcs that have no basis in the novel.
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