'Under the Dome' has some explaining to do

The entertainment factor outweights the inconsistencies and goofy things, so here's to another season of Under the Dome. Other thoughts: – Here I am, thinking I'd never have to see that cow being split in half again. Oh well.

CBS' Under the Dome on Monday night returned to 9.4 million total viewers and a 2.2 demo rating — down 30 and 33 percent from its boffo series debut (which did 13.5 mil and a 3.3) and off a good 20 percent from its 

(Yes, that's plural!) Keep reading to find out who's gone — and for good? To sum up the summer premiere of Under The Dome, the dome is now the nice guy, and a mysterious axe-wielding murderer is now the baddie in town.

NEW YORK — When asked how he came to write the Season 2 premiere of “Under the Dome,” the television adaptation of his 2009 sci-fi novel that returns to CBS on Monday, June 30, Stephen King is refreshingly candid.

Last summer's silly sensation Under the Dome returns for a second season on Monday. The show, a Stephen King adaptation that is, upon closer inspection, about a town that finds itself placed under a mysterious dome, was at turns junk and addictive and