Under the Dome is yet another tepid melodrama in which every creative decision appears to have been made in a trendy bid to appeal to the viewer's crotch.

While seeing Elijah Wood's wide spectrum of moods and mannerisms is a pleasure, Wilfred too often disrupts its curiously resonant psychoanalysis with foolhardiness and vulgarity.

True Blood, once a fleet-footed and hot-blooded gothic drama, hasn't aged gracefully, and instead grown long in the tooth.