The Following

The Following (2013) 

Pilot: It looks like a fairly well cast thrilleroid series with a weird, perverse and unarguably unlikely (even though Yankees can be real maniacs) plot about serial killer fans (Hi there, Dexi ;-) ). Poe is rather overused inspiration, but for the pilot it suffices. I hope that Bacon starts to drink more, if there’s not much action, a broken heart is annoying. So far, Purefoy isn’t chilling enough, but he didn’t get much room. We’ll see, so far I’m quite hooked, but it’d better get better soon. Season one: A twisted game with the viewer and his taste? The first half is stupidly refined and Joe and his little sect are quite entertaining. Then they start trying to finish writing the book themselves and that’s where everything starts to fall apart. What’s with the attempt at literary cliché and screenwriter’s cliché? Where is it Joe’s fault and where is the screenwriter at fault? The whole thing goes unpleasantly against the genre by copying it. At the end Purefoy is a completely different person from the one who says at the beginning... “It’s too soon for me to kill you". At the end, pacemaker or no pacemaker, Bacon jumps into the shoes of Jack Bauer just to look like a complete idiot at the end. This ending is a dirty trick on the viewer, who wanted to part company with this serial after the first season, but now I don’t know what to do. I suppose I’ll take a look at season two, at least one episode. (23/01/2013)