I haven't seen this show yet, but I have a feeling Under the Dome was awful because it was true to the book, which was really really grotesquely awful. I mean, holy shit was that book awful. I'm still angry about it.

Man, what a bummer.

They reference their family size in Don't Be a Menace. "She's got more kids than Mrs. Wayans."

I wish I were as wise as you. I watched it in the theater when it was released and it was a really painful experience. My then-roommate (now husband) couldn't stop laughing and I still to this day shame him for that.

Parody is becoming a lost art because our current generation A) isn't educated enough to understand what is being parodied and B) doesn't have the emotional IQ to have the sense of humor necessary to accept parody.

supposedly liberal parents

What the fuck is wrong with you, McLevy? That's a serious question.

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Glad to see the embarrassingly over-hyped It Comes at Night didn't make the list. I haven't been that disappointed in a theater since Prometheus.

Oh shit, my bad.

BerensTAIN Bears.

Very true. Not being able to accept criticism of one's position seems to be a prevailing theme of our generation. So we latch on to any out we can grab, and racism and misogyny are great tickets. I have zero doubt Saraiya was sent hate tweets and such from racist assholes. That doesn't make her original position any…

What's scary? ….what's scary? Hmm… Hey! A guy running down a hallway smashing himself in the face with a croquet mallet! That's scary, right? It's not comically absurd at all, is it?!

Small towns are filled with people, who are multi-faceted and capable of both virtue and sin.

Kubrick's Shining will always be superior to King's Shining.

By the time I was in middle school I was reading almost exclusively horror, but despite that I hadn't gotten around to reading a full-length Matheson horror novel until a few years ago. (I think I'd read only his short stories and science fiction up to that point.) It was Hell House, which I thought was bizarrely…

I gave him one last shot with Under the Dome (the book, not the apparently awful TV show) and it was such hot garbage I decided that was it. I was done pretending Stephen King is the Lovecraft or Poe of our times.

So people are still pretending Stephen King is a good writer by making yet another adaptation of one of his few good novellas?

Oh how I wish this film was as entertaining as the story you just shared.

I don't want to say that it's predictable