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Should I (and you) be watching The Following?

This isn't a traditional "What to Watch" because, well, there isn't much to watch tonight. Castle will give you a quintessential quippy legal drama and there is nothing wrong with that. The CBS comedies, are well, the CBS comedies. NBC has The Biggest Loser and Deception and I will let you make your own decisions about that.

The big wildcard? The Following. Let's talk about The Following for a moment. Show of hands - who's watching? I got two episodes in and became so bored by the series I can't bear to turn it on again. Am I in the minority? Am I missing out? I expect and hope that by now Kevin Bacon's character (that's how much of an impact he had - I don't even remember his name) will find a personality beyond drinking a lot and being real good at catching bad guys and stuff, however I fear that he has not. Also, have they run out of cliched Edgar Allen Poe references yet?

This was my most anticipated show of the year, so the fact that I am questioning it and NOT watching is incredible sad...so please help me...should I be watching? Should you? Discuss.

MasterSwannyon Feb. 11, 2013 at 5:09 p.m.

My girlfriend likes it so I'll be watching, luckily its on a slow tv night

MrMazzon Feb. 11, 2013 at 5:23 p.m.

I'm still watching it! But I am far from loving it, it's just so tone deaf (?) in it's style. OK so Hardy isn't the real star, the killers are that could be interesting....o nope it isn't they aren't really made to stand out. So far the only upside I've found in that show has been Kevin Bacon's smile and it's use of alt music from the early-ish 2000's since who dosen't like remebering when you had poor musical taste?

I'm sticking it out till the bitter end, it's only 11 (not counting tonights) episodes left. Network TV should take this kind of mid season limited run risk, except for you know having good content.

Continuum and Lost Girl on SyFy are entertaining enough. Also new Dallas still managing to drag me along, even if none of the Eweing Gen2 actors have a hint of the kind of presence of Larry Haggman (RIP)

fables87on Feb. 11, 2013 at 7:24 p.m.

No SyFy Powerful Mondays? No Dog Show?

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An edge-of-your-seat thriller about the complex relationship between a diabolical serial killer and the damaged FBI agent who took him down. After the killer escaped, the agent is reactivated and discovers that he is no longer just hunting one man, but a massive cult of serial killers created and manipulated during his time in prison.

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