kevin bacon's new show, the following

[Lemmy]

well, guess I look at it from the standpoint of 9/11. Blind faith in a megalomaniac happens---Hitler anyone?

My gripe right now is the portrayal of the women, all of them are damaged and being used as sex toys. Even the FBI agent's back story gives her daddy issues

See, I can buy some broads with daddy issues following this guy. There are loads of women in reality that write and want to marry dudes on death row. There are certainly men involved in cults but what are with all of the men on The Following in it for? A few of them were playing gay for years? It just lost me.

[Donkeyboy2190]

Nice to finally see Roderick. He's going to be a problem down the road. I wonder if Iceman will come back from near death a la Jack Bauer?

[MatthewT]

yeah, there's no evil women anywhere, and if there are, it's some man's fault

[dinkus mayhem]

I'm holding my comments until dink watches it later. But .

hey pony! i finally watched it. i thought a lot of it was good, but there were a few things that i thought were kind of gay.

good:

the little blonde fbi agent -- i like him and was glad to find out he's not a follower. pretty bad ass when ryan hardy shot those fools, too.

the guy biting his hand to eat an embedded cyanide pill was pretty awesome.

gay:

charlie offering his life to joe and the homo-erotic murder scene that followed

i still like the direction the plot is going in. it was also good to learn that...

rodderick is the sheriff. i knew the sheriff was in on it from when they first showed him.

i wonder if...

the black head fbi guy is a follower.

what did you think?

[dinkus mayhem]

See, I can buy some broads with daddy issues following this guy. There are loads of women in reality that write and want to marry dudes on death row. There are certainly men involved in cults but what are with all of the men on The Following in it for? A few of them were playing gay for years? It just lost me.

good point about the gay guys. they never really did a good job of establishing why either of them was so invested in the cult other than the one guy kind of having an interest in killing. the did establish why rodderick is in the cult though, so that's legit.

[eliasbboy]

hey pony! i finally watched it. i thought a lot of it was good, but there were a few things that i thought were kind of gay.

good:

the little blonde fbi agent -- i like him and was glad to find out he's not a follower. pretty bad ass when ryan hardy shot those fools, too.

the guy biting his hand to eat an embedded cyanide pill was pretty awesome.

gay:

charlie offering his life to joe and the homo-erotic murder scene that followed

i still like the direction the plot is going in. it was also good to learn that...

rodderick is the sheriff. i knew the sheriff was in on it from when they first showed him.

i wonder if...

the black head fbi guy is a follower.

what did you think?

Agreed! Especially on your "gay" point. That was VERY "hit you over the head" with the metaphor.

[Pony]

hey pony! i finally watched it. i thought a lot of it was good, but there were a few things that i thought were kind of gay.

good:

the little blonde fbi agent -- i like him and was glad to find out he's not a follower. pretty bad ass when ryan hardy shot those fools, too.

the guy biting his hand to eat an embedded cyanide pill was pretty awesome.

gay:

charlie offering his life to joe and the homo-erotic murder scene that followed

i still like the direction the plot is going in. it was also good to learn that...

rodderick is the sheriff. i knew the sheriff was in on it from when they first showed him.

i wonder if...

the black head fbi guy is a follower.

what did you think?

I'm afraid it might have jumped the shark for me.

Because

I called it right before Joe killed the lawyer. I said he was going to say that. Maybe lots of people did.

and

It annoyed me with all the people gathered in the house and the music. Too melodramatic. Get back to the story.

and

Joe telling Emma again and again that he loves his wife, but then oops, look what happened.

and

Just btw, when the guy ate the embedded pill, I thought he just bit off a chunk of his own flesh.

But I did like the scene with the blonde cop. Bad ass.

It's still a good show, I just hope they get back to how it was.

[dinkus mayhem]

i agreed about the big group in the house. that was really lame. a small cultish following i could understand, but they're kind of making the cult into a movement. and that's weak.

[Chaos]

i agreed about the big group in the house. that was really lame. a small cultish following i could understand, but they're kind of making the cult into a movement. and that's weak.

Well the basic concept in the beginning was that there are 300 serial killers in America active. What would happen if someone got them organized under one direction.

[Donkeyboy2190]

i wonder if...

the black head fbi guy is a follower.

what did you think?

I think at this point at least one of them has to be one. The question is who?

[Donkeyboy2190]

good point about the gay guys. they never really did a good job of establishing why either of them was so invested in the cult other than the one guy kind of having an interest in killing. the did establish why rodderick is in the cult though, so that's legit.

I see a power struggle between Joe and Roderick at some point.

[dinkus mayhem]

I see a power struggle between Joe and Roderick at some point.

totally. you could see the dynamic beginning to change over the course of the last episode. rodderick's ego is going to push him to do something to undermine or over take joe. or at least that's what i'd guess, too. who knows though.

[Rolling Pin]

Did not read thread.

Ain't nobody got time for dat.

Tell me Dink, is the show any good?

[dinkus mayhem]

Did not read thread.

Ain't nobody got time for dat.

Tell me Dink, is the show any good?

[dinkus mayhem]

first episode was terrible. like really bad and terribly cliche.

second episode was considerably better. and i was hooked by episode three. it's a good show, but nowhere near a breaking bad or anything like that. if you have monday evenings open, it's worth committing to for a handful of weeks.

[Rolling Pin]

first episode was terrible. like really bad and terribly cliche.

second episode was considerably better. and i was hooked by episode three. it's a good show, but nowhere near a breaking bad or anything like that. if you have monday evenings open, it's worth committing to for a handful of weeks.

Cool, that's kinda what I thought it might be. I'll check it out on your recommendation.

Not too many shows rise to the level of a Breaking Bad or a Sopranos.