The Following
 

Kevin Williamson. Kevin Bacon. James Pureofy. Serial Killer. Fox. Mondays. 9pm.


Anyone check it out?



I dug it. It's cool to see Bacon on TV and I like the set up. The influence of Scream is clear. I like that it will be 15 episodes nonstop each Monday. No breaks. Tell a quick, lean story.

Totally forgot about this one. Yeah I need to see it.

Yeah, I thought it was great. I would even go as far as to say that this is probably one of Kevin Bacon's best roles and performances.

Definitely one of those breezy shows that I'm not head over heels for, but will catch it when it comes on Monday.

I actually thought it was pretty terrible. Right off the bat you have one of the biggest hallmarks of lazy writing: He's a secret alcoholic! And yet his drinking problem isn't really a problem (yes, I assume this is setting up stuff for later in the series; I just think alcoholism is a shitty writing crutch).

And then you have this Hannibal Lecter wannabe who somehow concocted this massive grand design of a conspiracy through brief internet access while in a maximum security prison that relied on monumental strokes of luck (the girl moving into that very duplex; the ex-wife hiring that babysitter; all the cops being incompetent, etc.) - only so he could get caught at the exact right moment, go back to prison so he could play his masterful "game" with Will Graham, er, I mean Kevin Bacon...

Throw in some heavy handed Edger Allen Poe bullshit and you've got one of the dumbest cop shows I've seen.

Gotta side with Badbird on this one. I was really looking forward to this but I thought the pilot was kind of awful.

The story is just ludicrous and the twists unbelievable (I say that as someone who could go along with every twist 24 dished at me). The meta stuff was too obvious. Kevin Bacon's over-the-top yelling was cringeworthy and so was the climactic look on his face at the end of the episode, it looked like he was trying for a stunned expression but it came out completely frozen and vacant.

It's watchable in a mindless way but delve in any further than the surface and it just seems laughable.

I'll give it another episode cause I had such high hopes for this but I doubt it'll get any better.

Jesus, this show is ridiculous. The....

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I'll probably be in this for the long haul, just because.

I have seen the preveiw to this series only a few nights back

It does look interesting on waht l have seen of it

But like everything we have to wait a few weeks for it to air on aussie tv

Funny, in that "What the..." sort of way.

'The Following' reviewed by actual serial killer: Seriously.

http://blog.zap2it.com/frominsidethe...seriously.html

I've been watching every week...solid show...great way to end Monday nights.

If there was any consolation to watching the whole season of this show (believe me, I don't know either), it was knowing the utter predictability of the final moments of the season finale. No joke, I said what would happen, word for word, to my parents a week ago, and a couple minutes before the show ended.

Then when it happened, I felt like I achieved some sort of victory against the mediocre hours that i placed myself for this show.

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Take that Kevin Williamson! Yeah, I'm probably going to see where they go for next season. What's wrong with me?

I stopped watching after episode 4 or 5. It wasn't bad it just seemed to be spinning in it's wheels and going nowhere. I found out what happened in tonight's episode.

I'll probably catch up with the rest of the season, but I don't know if I will be back next season. I just fear that they'll continue to do the same thing of having most of the season be nothing but filler and then in the last handful of episodes finally go somewhere. That's my main beef with this show and consequently why I'm leery of giving next season another try.

Trust me ILM, if you fell out of this show then the continuing episodes will not change your opinion. It's the same wheel-spinning, eye-rolling script that is in every episode.

It's a flawed show for sure. It's silly, sometimes bordering on idiotic. And it definitely spins its wheels, which can be frustrating. That said, I do enjoy it. It's very much a guilty pleasure.


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