Are you following 'The Following'?

Warning: Spoilers ahead. 

Okay so I haven't been able to post anything for the past few episodes of 'The Following' It doesn't mean though that the 'poet's fire' (pun intended) has already been put out because the excitement that I feel about this new series is anything but - put out. 

Although I do have some qualms in the new series which mainly focuses on how the show portrays the FBI as incompetent if not incapable of foiling the plots of Joe Carroll's dead poet society. 

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I mean, why oh why would you send an FBI agent alone to protect the wife of a known Joe Carroll nut job...err..associate (who Surprise! turns out to be in the club also). This mistake of course,ultimately leads to the demise of the lone FBI agent who was sent to guard an accomplice instead of a victim. I mean didn't they have the whole cavalry when they were protecting Sarah and Claire? 

Oh yeah and we all know how that turned out. 

Sarah got all the muscles of her eyes carved out while Claire had her head almost blown off. 

I think my frustration in the portrayal of the FBI in the show is pretty clear in my examples above. 

But wait there's more...

Series Spotlight: The Following: Episode 2: Chapter 2

Two Faced: Broken Hero and Psycho Writer. James Purefoy and Kevin Bacon as Joe Carroll and Ryan Hardy. 

I started out writing about 830 + words on a recap of Episode 2 of the Following- which is aptly entitled Chapter 2. 

This was actually the first time that I was trying to write an episode recap and I discovered first hand how hard it really is. Hats off to those writers in Entertainment Weekly and other establishments for their episode recaps which comes out the same day as the show and it is still very well written. 

As I was trying to finish my recap of 800+ words I found myself wanting to write more about what I thought of the show instead of what transpired in the show. 

That is why here I am now, deleting those 800+ words (ouch!) and moving on to blog about my thoughts on the series so far. So yes! I just love The Following! 

The Following's (very) Bizarre Love Triangle: Nico Tortorella, Adan Canto and Valerie Curry as Paul, Jacob and Emma. 

I've also gotten Paul to watching it and as a music man he has said that he really likes the choice of music used in the series. I remember that the pilot episode opened to a few notes of Marilyn Manson's 'Sweet Dreams' and also ended with the same song all the way through the chorus in the end. 

Series Spotlight: The Following

I have recently been gripped by a new TV series- 'The Following' which stars Kevin Bacon, its a new TV series from Fox whose premise is about a serial killer who has recently escaped prison and the former FBI agent who caught him-pretty typical right? But that is where the similarities end because 'The Following' is nothing like any television series I have ever seen. 

Unlike other movie and TV series' serial killers there is something different about The Following's Joe Carroll, (played by the enigmatic James Purefoy) he has a network of followers who are at his beck and call and will do anything he tells them- anything. 

This 'Following' of Carroll's just makes things more difficult for former FBI agent Ryan Hardy (played by Kevin Bacon) since Carroll now has a source, ways and means for his sick and diabolical plans to come to fruition. -you can't trust anyone. 

Now, a serial killer inspiring others is not really a new concept since Hannibal Lecter also had his own 'follower' in the 'Red Dragon'- Carroll uses his followers in a grander scheme of things.