UNDER THE DOME
CBS, 10:00 p.m. ET
This is the penultimate episode of Under the Dome, which ends its run next week after three increasingly nonsensical summer seasons. I gave up for good somewhere around the alien seed pods, because, like Stephen King, I’ve seen all that already in science fiction films from the 1950s. But TV this much off the rails can provide its own sort of pleasure: As USA Today TV critic Robert Bianco writes, encouraging even newcomers to sample these last two programs, “Plunge in and enjoy the out-of-whack, sex-goo insanity while you still have time.” Couldn’t have said it better myself – certainly not the “sex-goo” part.