I think I’ve said this before, but perhaps not so succinctly: “The Following” is successful when it simultaneously embraces normalcy and chaos. The opening scene this week of Joe preaching is a perfect example of that. It seems so utterly natural for a man to be talking to a group of people, getting them jazzed,…
We’re more than halfway, folks! Episode 8 of the scheduled 15. Dare I venture to say that this is turning into quite the good show…? It still has a lot of faults, to be sure, but the things that I like about “The Following” are the choices they make to be unconventional. For example, this…
Bigggggg news this week, huh kids? Joe, escaping from prison. Whoa. Also, sad for the lawyer. Sucks to suck. Joe spends a lot of time strategizing. Nine whole years, as he points out in some monologging with Hardy. He’s built an entire web of Followers, and he’s not really met all of them yet. He orchestrated, somehow,…
“The Fall” is also the name of my ALL TIME FAVORITE MOVIE. So I’m going to use this opportunity to plug it. Go see it. So, are they gay or straight? Panamourous? Pansexual? Asexual? Who cares? OH YEAH. No one. No one cares. Fox. Stahp. I guess it’s alright to use the weirdness of the…
Try as you might, “The Following”, you shan’t resist the charms of the ‘procedural’ for long! No! I won’t! I’ll never join you! You will. It’s in your script, your writing, your direction. You can’t fight your producers. Nooooooooooooooooooooooooo- It’s too late. The transformation has been creeping up on you little by little. The rebellions…
This week…well well well. If last week was the calm before the storm, this was the storm that was as fierce as a complicated simile that went nowhere. I am at this weird limbo where I can’t tell if the writers are idiots writing themselves furiously in and out of corners, or if they’re geniuses.…
Holy jeeze consistency. Here’s episode 3. I am less impressed this week. I don’t know, you guys. As I’ve mentioned before, “The Following” takes itself pretty seriously. This week was kind of like, ‘underwhelming plot twist week’. Like they fancy themselves J.J. Abrams or something. I will reference “Fringe” here, because it features wonderful plot…
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