Friday, April 11, 2014

What I’m Watching: The Following


The Following: Season 2, Episode 12 “Betrayal” (F)

You’d think that if the person that the FBI was protecting realized that there was something suspicious going on in front of their car, the FBI agents themselves would have some idea too and think carefully before stepping out of the car and ensuring their immediate deaths. It makes just as much sense for Ryan to tail Joe’s new followers to their compound without any backup so that he can kill Joe himself and not worry about other people getting in the way, not to mention the fact that Joe’s followers don’t need him to be alive to commit atrocious acts of murder. Gluing masks to the unfortunate people unlucky enough to be at the fraternity house when Joe’s followers arrived was definitely a new level of creepy, and not in a good way (though there’s little on this show that is). Lily and her boys didn’t waste much time in revealing their hand to Mandy, offering her cake before confirming to her that they just want her to tell them where Joe is right away. It seems quite senseless for them to have killed her immediately instead of hoping she might eventually break, and Lily being present for the latest family dinner with a dead person at the table was even more gruesome and unwatchable than the last time the twins did it. Claire isn’t keeping the fact that she’s alive very much under wraps, and I can’t imagine what she and Carrie could possibly do that would both help the good guys and keep this show on the air, which is it going to be for at least another season.

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