This sounds… remarkably familiar, actually. Has anyone here seen Snowpiercer? It's not exactly the same thing (that society was segregated, while this one doesn't seem to be), but there are great similarities.

…and one of them is used for the keeping of cattle and the manufacture of ice-cream? (Actually, never mind the milk, nobody has ever commented on the taste of food in Wayward Pines. Apparently one of those technological advances in the 2000s was the perfect preservation of food for millennia.)

We were shown several torture devices in this episode; I suppose the Chinese water torture could be one of them? :-p

That's what I thought as well; the display cases were very similar to those cages. He held his Dante lecture in that room, too.

Bonbon.

Ah, so I'm not crazy, then. Honestly, if Chilton makes it out of this alive, they'll have to replace the actor with Goldie Hawn.

Well, we do speak of stomachs, but isn't it mostly a matter of the mind? And more specifically imagination: having a vivid one can be helpful in many things, but there are benefits in its lack, too, especially when it comes to smells. In my case, this allows me to discuss disgusting things without really visualising…

Thank you; sensitive person that I am, when I saw a man using a bust to strike another man in the head, all I could think of for a few seconds was "I know that face… Why can't I remember, dammit?"

Very late here, but the name is not that odd. Cosima is the feminine version of the Italian name Cosimo (famous from the Medici), which derives from the Greek Saint Cosmas; you may be familiar with Cosmo, the English version of the same.

She did cough a lot, and asked for a scientist, so that makes me think she was possibly already dying, though that certainly wouldn't go far enough to explain the atrocious accent.

I thought of something similar the first time I saw it: the subway station in The Matrix Revolutions. However, it makes perfect sense that the road would be a convenient means of ensuring discretion in conducting the necessary movements through the fence (in addition to making the town look more realistic).

Still, what better way for the Realtor's successor to begin in the job than by reassigning said Realtor's house?

Or maybe Wayward Pines is the new, improved version of Seahaven, the town in The Truman Show. Aeroplanes do pass overhead, but the residents just can't see them.

I'll need to get a clearer view of them, but… What if they're walking pines? That would explain everything!

I re-watched the whole thing over the past couple of months with my mother (who is a great horror fan); she was complaining that the gap between seasons was so great that she had forgotten everything. I have a better memory (and reading reviews and comments helps retain more of the plot and details), but I'm glad I…

The post-credits scene in the season finale kind of set that up, though they didn't explicitly mention Paris.

I watched this today for the first time, and I just want to add to the chorus (no pun intended) regarding the music: it really put me off at first, and I almost felt the need to stop watching at some point. Only around the middle of the episode did I start becoming more excited about the story.

You know, I really need to read the second-season reviews for Under the Dome. I haven't watched a single episode, but I had some fun reading the reviews of the first season, even though I didn't know who half the people were. Maybe I ought to start over, after reading about the cast in the Wikipedia article so that it…

Idaho. Wayward Pines is supposed to be in Idaho; there have been several references to Boise as well.

I partly agree with you, but there is also merit to the point of several people commenting here, which is that this kind of thing is generally done in the first episode rather than the second or third, to drum up attention for the show.