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. 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. 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.įed 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. 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. Twenty-five years after that battle, “Dominion” is set in a fortified city once known as Las Vegas, now called Vega. “eight-balls”), who are like rapacious beady-eyed zombies with wings. 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. Picking up from the aftermath of a little-noticed 2010 theatrical flick called “Legion,” 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. “Dominion,” premiering Thursday night, is strictly cheapo-apocalypto, but it’s one of the more interesting efforts from the SyFy network lately, which, despite its hopeful marketing slogan (“Imagine Greater”), keeps churning out shows that are resiliently mediocre - beyond even the B-movie heritage of its namesake genre.
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