Dominion
My New Summer Favorite TV Show
this new series is an action drama about a world abandoned by God, in which the archangels Gabriel and Michael work out a grudge match on a forsaken Earth. Gabriel has nothing but animus toward the human race; Michael, for his own reasons, has taken pity and helped the remaining humans defeat Gabriel and his vast army of lower angels (a.k.a. “eight-balls”), who are like rapacious beady-eyed zombies with wings.
Twenty-five years after that battle, “Dominion” is set in a fortified city once known as Las Vegas, now called Vega. Here, on what used to be the Strip, a militarized government uses the Bellagio as both capital and palace, while everyone else scrapes by in a caste system. Michael (Tom Wisdom) keeps watch from his bachelor-pad aerie atop the old Stratosphere hotel, as both protector and adviser to the citizens of Vega.
Fed up with the city’s politics, a rebellious young soldier named Alex (Christopher Egan) plans to sneak away with his secret love, Claire (Roxanne McKee), who is the daughter of the grand high muckety-muck ruler of the city. Things get complicated when Alex’s father (Langley Kirkwood), believed long dead, returns to Vega with bad news that Gabriel (Carl Beukes) is amassing a new legion of eight-balls and assassin angels at a lair in the Rocky Mountains.
The people of Vega — some of them anyhow — believe strongly that a messiah-type savior will be delivered unto them and vanquish the monster angels once and for all.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/entertainment/tv/syfys-dominion Hank Stuever
Links
http://www.syfy.com/dominion
