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Please if you have any humanity show Big entertainment company's that this is not the way. This is the type of stuff that causes Tragedies like Sandy ...

Please if you have any humanity show Big entertainment company's that this is not the way. This is the type of stuff that causes Tragedies like Sandy Hook. This stuff needs to stop and people finding enjoyment in watching it is why our society is flawed beyond comprehension. This is Disgusting and I have seen bad things I served my country and there is no enjoyment in seeing dead bodies or mutilations. Continue with the video games and maybe a couple of movies but the glorified serial killer or mass serial killer movies and shows should end. This is not what entertainment is about. I cant believe the media is trying to run something like this. We have enough violence in our life didn't Dexter just end let this stuff go. PLease!!!!

I am a big Kevin Bacon fan. After waiting for a month or more i was so disappointed with The Following. It was totally gross! I won't be watching aga ...

I am a big Kevin Bacon fan. After waiting for a month or more i was so disappointed with The Following. It was totally gross! I won't be watching again. Do we really need this level of bloody? Especially after Newtown? The plot was completely predictable. And can this plot line last for a whole season? I don't think so. Bacon must really need money to be involved in a series like this. But he has enough star power to demand much, much more. Can't you envision him in some ground breaking drama like "Mad Men" or "Homeland" instead of this drivel? Or a really great comedy A la "Curb Your Enthusiasm"? What a complete waste of talent!!!! Can't say it enough: BOO! HISS!

Waaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooo violent!! And that's too bad, since this seems to be so well crafted and acted. I gave it 20 minutes or so, but couldn't ha ...

Waaaaaaaaaay tooooooooooo violent!! And that's too bad, since this seems to be so well crafted and acted. I gave it 20 minutes or so, but couldn't handle any more. Kevin Bacon was a good choice for the "good" guy. His style fits in nicely here., and he is such a talented actor. Not too sure the supporting actors would have reeled me in, though. Of course, James Purefoy is well cast, also. He was certainly able to make himself creepy enough for a serial killer who has mesmerized his followers.It's too bad we've all gotten so numb to violence so that films and TV have to amp it up so very far to get any of us to notice. Well, this time it was too much for me!

This is a disgusting show. Another glorify violence Hollywood show that is so dark it is like watching Silence of the Lambs for hours on end. One can ...

This is a disgusting show. Another glorify violence Hollywood show that is so dark it is like watching Silence of the Lambs for hours on end. One can only take so much. An inspiring show for nut jobs. I don't think I have seen anything this dark and violent in awhile, and to think they have made 14 shows about it. Is there anyone, anyone in Hollywood who can make a good show where I don't have to watch peoples eyeballs get ripped out. Seriously, make me want to cancel my TV. After watching this I am not sure I will be able to sleep tonight. It glorifies the crazy person as charismatic and having a cult following, like nut jobs need to get anymore ideas. Here is a show they can emulate. I hope this show gets canceled. I have had too many degrees of Kevin Bacon with this one.

I was looking forward to this series, but having seen the pilot episode, I'm not sure I will continue to follow The Following. While the premise is i ...

I was looking forward to this series, but having seen the pilot episode, I'm not sure I will continue to follow The Following. While the premise is intriguing, the gore exhibited in pilot was way over the top.I'm not squeamish and have enjoyed watching countless bloody thrillers and teen slasher flicks, but this episode was just too much. I'll watch one more, but unless they dial it back a notch, I'm gone.Matt Damon seemed less than convincing and, aside from a few surprise twists, most of the storyline was less than inventive. I'll take NCIS any day over this.

Kevin Bacon is unique. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon makes him a kind of hub, and that would have ignited the sad vanity of almost any Hollywood entity, ...

Kevin Bacon is unique. Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon makes him a kind of hub, and that would have ignited the sad vanity of almost any Hollywood entity, but in Bacon it's illuminated a humility grounded in seeking personal connection - rather than celluloid - with the individuals whom appreciate his work.Bacon is a man who stretches himself through his roles, sometimes with one-off results, so there's plenty to admire. The first installment of The Following presents a formula for infinite possibilities, from trite and gratuitous violence to one-off horror, just for example. And I seriously doubt I'll be the only one watching just to see what Bacon has done with his role as the hub of this dark parable about six degrees gone very bad.

The fact that there are people out there who think that this kind of vile, sickening, disgusting, sadistic trash actually belongs on television horri ...

The fact that there are people out there who think that this kind of vile, sickening, disgusting, sadistic trash actually belongs on television horrifies and saddens me.A network (Fox) that cancels high-quality shows like Fringe yet has room for this carnage is mostly to blame, but the "people" who will enjoy watching the most gory torture and bloodthirsty killing, and consider it "entertainment" are equally at fault. The writers of this disturbed and mindless garbage are beneath contempt. I can't believe that Kevin Bacon is so hard up for money that he agreed to be seen in this, so what's his excuse?If you like this kind of television viewing, you are no better than a serial killer yourself, and you should probably be watching it safely locked away in an institution. This pathetic depravity cannot be cancelled soon enough.

One of the more shocking and scary pilots shown on TV. A serial killer escapes and has a "following" to help him. The cast is very well picked. James ...

One of the more shocking and scary pilots shown on TV. A serial killer escapes and has a "following" to help him. The cast is very well picked. James Purefoy as the serial killer - a good actor but not too evil looking, the beautiful Natalie Zea as his ex wife, Maggie Grace as his victim and Kevin Bacon as the troubled FBI agent.Kevin Williamson's touch is evident. The presence of big screen A list actors paired with unexpected twists and turns has a real "Scream" shock horror feel it's more serious. Compared to the next most horror based show on TV now, the horror is more slasher and less play on your mind type than American Horror Story.Is it too scary for TV? Well it is for older audiences. For horror fans it's probably going to be a hit.

Really never take the time to write reviews but I felt I needed to say something about this show.First of all, its nice to see Kevin Bacon in a TV-se ...

Really never take the time to write reviews but I felt I needed to say something about this show.First of all, its nice to see Kevin Bacon in a TV-series. He makes a pretty good performance in the show. Even though he have been holding hands with about 5 guys now as they draw their last breath. Getting kind old...But the story is really really bad and so unrealistic. FBI, HomeLand, NSA, SWAT they all appear like a bunch of clowns and amateurs. Getting killed all the time and can never catch up with the bad guys. Why is this??? How can a loose gathering of sociopaths be more organized, so infiltrated and stay so far ahead of the entire us law enforcement forces? The following better shape up, or I am not following any more. Haha!

Like many here, I was intrigued by episode 1... and thought that a great new show was here. By about show 3, I had filled my quota of suspended disbe ...

Like many here, I was intrigued by episode 1... and thought that a great new show was here. By about show 3, I had filled my quota of suspended disbelief, and could not longer enjoy it... I was just slogging through a painful experience, long enough to see what would happen next.Trouble is, each time what "happens next" is even more ridiculous than what happened before. The total bumbling ineptitude of law enforcement is laughable. We ought to all go hide in bunkers if the FBI, CIA, local police and prison staff are all really this stupid.The list of ridiculous events and actions are endless... the woman sneaking from police custody to meet a cultist, on the promise of seeing her son, so she can be captured. The Bacon character entering a house with his back to the front door, looking up a staircase, when he knows there are killers everywhere. A few short words from Bacon, talking a woman out of killing that person with a nail gun, even though she is supposedly totally cult-washed into doing it. No, one minute with Bacon, and she changed her mind.And having new cultists pop up any time the lazy writers need another one, to kill someone new, or provide some small function. People get captured, then escape, then new ones get captured, and others escape... who will care any more about anyone being captured, or escaping, since it looks so easy, and might happen at any moment, to any character? Meanwhile, I'm no psychologist, but more the reason to make a case WHY these people would be so compelled to follow this douche-bag anyway. I suppose his schwarmy, s*** eating grin permanently tattooed to his face is supposed to be hypnotic, and make people want to torture and kill for him, but to me he just looks spacey and clueless all the time. They don't make the case for him as a cult leader, at all, for me.And I like Kevin Bacon. I'm even 2 degrees from Kevin Bacon! For his sake, I do hope they cancel this... so this dog can be forgotten, and he can go on to repair his career.And here I'll add the funniest line from the show. The Bacon character, after being taken off the case, again, for absolutely screwing things up, again, says to his sidekick, "Well... they have to blame SOMEBODY." Really? Do you think? I wonder why they picked YOU, of all people? Its not like you let the guy go like thirty-five times, and got 12 people killed, and 40 captured, is it? No, they just picked YOU out of a hat...

I'll start by saying that the show had some good action to it, the actors are well developed and the overall theme to the show is great.Aside from th ...

I'll start by saying that the show had some good action to it, the actors are well developed and the overall theme to the show is great.Aside from that the show seriously lacks in the general intelligence and intuition of those playing law informant characters. The F.B.I. are after a cult following a brilliant serial killer who is currently behind bars, the members of the cult are supposedly rather intelligent themselves and yet the F.B.I. and the police never seem to be prepared for the twists, never sending enough officers to do a job. Of course if the police were depicted as being intelligent and competent individuals, the producers would have had to hire actual writers to keep the series moving.

The first two episodes were very good but then it was all downhill from there. Thin storyline is thin and even the twists are predictable. The FBI's ...

The first two episodes were very good but then it was all downhill from there. Thin storyline is thin and even the twists are predictable. The FBI's characters are so idiotic that its quite insulting to the real FBI. There is no urgency in the FBIs characters or realism as to how one would expect given that there's a kidnapped child and cult killers on the loose.And if all else fails throw in some more cult members. How'd a prisoner recruit so many followers from prison is also way to far fetched. It feels as if there are more cult members than FBI, swat, police, etc in the show.The whole show has just become incredibly frustrating to watch.

This show is absolutely terrible. For me gore isn't really an issue, but this time it was. I loved the movie Dredd despite it's horrible violence and ...

This show is absolutely terrible. For me gore isn't really an issue, but this time it was. I loved the movie Dredd despite it's horrible violence and gore, because it didn't shove it in my face. This show can't get away from it because it's the only thing it really has to keep people interested. But showing a tortured and brutalized dog that's barely alive and suffering or playing a tortured girl's cries for help while having her eyes ripped out is too far. That's trash writing right there. There are plenty of ways to evoke the emotions of fear and sympathy without crossing that line, but when you need to cross that line just to try and stand out you know you're standing alone and deserve it.Seriously though, the show is just so proud of their lame characters. I get it. You think they're great. The killer is more tech savvy than the federal agents and their tech support, despite no real background in the subject that we are presented. The killer is so much smarter and well planned than the entire police department, feds, and Kevin Bacon. The police are just bumbling around while the cultist are running around like Ninja, even though he only had a short amount of time to actually have everyone brainwashed and trained. The villain manages to gather an entire army of followers and trains them into how to be super stealthy tech ninjas while in prison and manages to craft the most elaborate detailed plan ever. Kevin Bacon is the only person on the planet that can catch the villain because... well... Actually they never explain that. A poor girl had to get tortured and murdered before he decided to check any places with a Poe story theme to it. If only Google had been there to save the day. Also, a killer with an Edgar Allen Poe theme? Wow, how original. This seems more like some first year lit students fan-fiction than anything else. It's just like if Silence of the Lambs was written by a 13 year old.This is just a bad story, with bad characters, following a predictable and boring plot, in a world filled with simpletons. They try to portray this guy like Hannibal Lecter, a suave and sophisticated genius that perpetrates amazing crimes and helped other serial killers become legends. The problem is that they fail horribly. Hannibal was terrifying because he wasn't trying to impress anyone with his art and actually had studied psychology. He was terrifying because he understood the human mind. This guy is failed writer and a Lit professor. The local Librarian would have been more frightening. The whole failed artist aspect just makes me think of a whiny teenager. They portray the law enforcement as a horrible and incompetent disorganized force. They never manage to look in obvious hiding places, do background checks, call for help, have a weapon ready, do psyche checks on guards, have a radio/whistle/panic button available, a safe house or hotel where all the planning would be voided, or something as simple as recognizing your coworker is acting weird in the locker room. The plot is more unstable than a house of playing cards. Anyone one whistle blown or caught henchman and the whole thing would have been pieced together in seconds and in plenty of time to stop the next plot twist. And it happens more times than you would think. Spoilers. If they put the last victim in a safe house. If they would have kept their eye on the nanny after realizing that the last victims friends for the last several years were working for the killer. If the nanny didn't get the job, or the gay couple didn't get the house next door, or anyone moving within the three years. If the neighbors of the guard would have realized his house smelled of death and the sounds of tortured animals could be heard from within. If the neighbors would have realized that dozens of pets going missing seems very odd. If Kevin Bacon would have called for help the two times he wandered alone. If the three murdered officers would have called for help in the two different locations and times. If the prison guards were able to stop one man from murdering all five of them within minutes without setting off an alarm. If the gay couples landlord would have done a credit check. If any of the police experts would have thought to look in Poe-themed locations. If the police didn't bring in Kevin Bacon, or at least take him off the case after realizing his involvement. If the police actually tried interrogating the killer and treating him like a criminal instead of a wonderful artist and genius that deserves undying respect. If anyone would have recognized the missing child with the three serial killers. If any of the cultists broke or got caught before the prison break, during the man hunt, or afterward. If any of those happened, the story would have crumbled. Thats a lot to have to overlook in only two episodes. I probably missed a few, and I still got to 18 different points. If you saw the show, try watching it again with those in mind. The show thinks it's great and keeps telling you every second how great it is despite being a poorly thought out train of idiocy.

I tried and really WANTED to like this show. Kevin Bacon is a fantastic actor. The premise of the show seemed really great, the first episode was goo ...

I tried and really WANTED to like this show. Kevin Bacon is a fantastic actor. The premise of the show seemed really great, the first episode was good and engaging but by episode 3 it unfortunately all fell apart. First and most of all the storyline is just waaaay too far fetched and unconvincing. Many characters seem just plain stupid (Jordy - if he is such a devoted follower WHY on Earth would he speak and give away important info to the FBI right before killing himself in the hospital bed?!? This might make sense if he was seeking redemption but he wasn't at all. Just because they promised him he would see his God/Leader again?! You gotta be kidding me... and this is unfortunately just one of many completely idiotic points in the whole story so far), zero depth, no believable background AT ALL. Some action sequences - even though they are not crucial in this sort of show - are so ridiculous the whole thing becomes just a painful experience to sit through. With many other shows on TV this will be quickly forgotten and frankly - that is exactly what it deserves. 3 stars go to whoever convinced KB to be on this in the first place, haha!

This show is truly insulting. After the first 40 minutes the writers ran out of any plausible ideas so it's ridiculous situation after situation. Joe ...

This show is truly insulting. After the first 40 minutes the writers ran out of any plausible ideas so it's ridiculous situation after situation. Joe, it appears has magical powers that can make anything he wants happen at any time. From a jail cell, he creates a network of followers that he has never talked to with unlimited funds and resources.His followers are everywhere and in every job when it appears that the police have only 1 or 2 people that can ever try to stop him and naturally they do a poor job of it.I wanted to like it. I tuned in one more time thinking maybe by some miracle it would get better but it only becomes more ridiculous. Joe's escape from jail was the final straw. The premise to be moved to another jail is bizarre and if that's not bad enough then prison officials, FBI agents and Federal marshals all manage not to be able to put one prisoner in the back of a transport truck and move him. But he then gets magically in the trunk of his lawyer's car and escapes. We all have different tastes in shows but I find it baffling that anyone could find this show even remotely watchable because it's so insulting to the viewers.I will say the only one on the show's with half a brain is the little boy and I can only hope he can escape this show and never looks back.

This must be the most annoyingly irritating TV series I have ever watched. I find myself getting really annoyed with the ridiculous incompetence of t ...

This must be the most annoyingly irritating TV series I have ever watched. I find myself getting really annoyed with the ridiculous incompetence of the entire FBI and police departments, while the aggravatingly smug serial killer reigns supreme. You just find yourself wanting to really slap the characters and tell them to get on with it. For one thing, this guy would be so locked down in jail that he would have no contact with his followers at all, and surely the best way of stopping the entire thing is to execute him. Isn't he on death row anyway. The worse thing for me, is that there is no perceived resolution. If the situation is resolved, then the series is over. This means that you just know that it will go on forever. There is just no satisfaction in this.

I watched six episodes. I really tried. The first showed potential, despite plot and plausibility issues. Each episode strained credibility further. ...

I watched six episodes. I really tried. The first showed potential, despite plot and plausibility issues. Each episode strained credibility further. It's like the writer just could not see the story's descent into total farce. Characters so implausibly stupid, police and swat incapable of decisive action, and saving characters introduced from nowhere under incredible circumstances. I genuinely feel sorry for the cast. The story is just so bad this writer should never be allowed to work again. Tonight I took it off my DVR. I doubt there will be a season 2, which is a shame for the actors. Sorry guys, it just got too ridiculous and far fetched. The writer killed it.

Sadly, the show started out with incredible potential but fails critical plausibility and logic requirements over and over. From unmonitored prison v ...

Sadly, the show started out with incredible potential but fails critical plausibility and logic requirements over and over. From unmonitored prison visits to overuse of flashbacks to convenient disciples popping up everywhere to violations of every basic police and military tactical procedure, this show has jumped the shark in the first season. Constant capture-escape-capture-escape is already dull. And even though the show was inspired by 24, it didn't even learn the basic lessons from that. I wanted this to be as good as it could have been. But alas, this show is already failing beyond recovery.ADDED: Episode seven and this series has gone so far off the deep end that not only is it removed from the DVR but it is not even worth criticizing the events in detail as a spoiler. Bacon and Purefoy remain strong but how many sharks can a plot jump in one hour?In the next episode, Lucy has a wild scheme to get into the nightclub act by disguising herself as an FBI agent but Ricky catches her and they discover that they're both secretly Joe Carroll cultists. Then somebody else dies. Ooooo.And then they escape because the FBI or the Police were looking the other way at the critical moment.