The Following

[UConnChapette]

Anyone watching? Thoughts?

I liked the first few episodes, but then I didn't like the last couple. The whole teaching the kid to kill a mouse was very disturbing - which, yes, I understand it was designed to be that way. But it just sat wrong with me with Sandy Hook so fresh in my memories.

I will give it the rest of the season, which is a short 12 episodes. I have to think that there is someone in the FBI that is a follower. But not the obvious one who gave Joe the EAP book.

 

[G0UCONN]

It is definitely intense..especially for TV. I like it so far.

 

[mauconnfan]

Love it so far........it could get out of hand but they seem to have a nice series, very intense! great acting by Bacon when he was blindfolded, you felt like he did!!

 

[Dove]

Great show. The last episode killing spree reminded me of the end of The Departed. Rapid kills everywhere.

 

[Vuce]

Started out good but it has gone over the edge. It is more unbelieveable than the Walking Dead with zombies or True Blood with vampires. I hope Whitey Bugler isnt watching or he will be on the loose again pretty soon. Basically the bad guy has lke 2 million people under his spell somehow willing to kill for him at any given moment.

 

[G0UCONN]

Started out good but it has gone over the edge. It is more unbelieveable than the Walking Dead with zombies or True Blood with vampires. I hope Whitey Bugler isnt watching or he will be on the loose again pretty soon. Basically the bad guy has lke 2 million people under his spell somehow willing to kill for him at any given moment.

100% in agreement with all that.

Still like it.

 

[Vuce]

I deleted it from my DVR. I think it is one thing when a show is sci fi but these shows that put themselves out there as a realistic FBI or cop show is quite another. I see that fox renewed it for another year. I guess the possibilities are endless when a third of the country will pull out a fun or knife and kill for Joe after they read a secret message in a Poe story.

 

[DogMania]

I deleted it from my DVR. I think it is one thing when a show is sci fi but these shows that put themselves out there as a realistic FBI or cop show is quite another. I see that fox renewed it for another year. I guess the possibilities are endless when a third of the country will pull out a fun or knife and kill for Joe after they read a secret message in a Poe story.

The first few shows were interesting but it has gotten increasingly dark and I too have lost interest and just removed the series from my DVR.

One edgy show that I like a lot it's Banshee (sp?). Unlike The Following where it seems the bad guys keep on winning, both the good and bad guys kill and get killed. It's got a lot of twists and is far from predictable. It's a more violent show than I usually watch and has some nudity. It's very well written. I find it hard to watch shows that are either poorly constructed and/or poorly scripted (crappy dialog).

 

[HuskyHawk]

I deleted it from my DVR. I think it is one thing when a show is sci fi but these shows that put themselves out there as a realistic FBI or cop show is quite another. I see that fox renewed it for another year. I guess the possibilities are endless when a third of the country will pull out a fun or knife and kill for Joe after they read a secret message in a Poe story.

I agree. I liked it at first, and then two weeks ago, when the "Following" infiltrated the FBI, and managed to have the specific officers ordered to a specific location, to kill the other officers...I had had enough (and my wife agreed). All because they are fans of a mildly charismatic English professor turned serial killer from a small college in Virginia. Really? The idea of a random virus tunring us into brain munching zombies is more plausible than that. The acting is good. If the events of the first 6 episodes were spread out over two seasons, it might have been a decent show.