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The Following Finale: Who Lives, Who Dies (or Could it All Be a Dream?)

For those of us trying to guess how The Following would wrap up its first season, creator Kevin Williamson shared a clue with Entertainment Weekly. […]

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The Following Recap: You Can’t Kill Kevin Bacon

  To paraphrase Verbal Kint in The Usual Suspects, the greatest trick Joe Carroll ever pulled was to convince the viewers of this show that […]

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The Following Recap: The FBI Actually Got Something Right!

Television shows offer escape from reality, but yesterday, it was nearly impossible to watch anything on TV without thinking about the attacks on the Boston […]

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The Following Recap: Ryan’s Dark Secret

Daddy issues! Smackdowns! A shocking backstory! Bad prose! Last night’s episode offered up a variety of twisted treats as we head toward the final three […]

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The Following Recap: Sex Tapes Can’t Keep the Snooze Away

With a title like “Whips and Regret,” safe words, gimp masks and sex tapes, you’d figure this episode of The Following would be exciting (or […]

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The Following Recap: Couples Night!

It was couples night on The Following, as a number of duos were introduced, pulled together, or ripped apart—and in one case, set us up for […]

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The Following Recap: Love Is Like Being Shot With a Spear Gun

This episode is titled “Love Hurts,” but I’d recommend a longer, more accurate version: “Love Hurts (But Not as Much as Spear Guns, Nail Guns, […]

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The Following Recap: Carroll’s Clubhouse and Really Kinky Sex

Like the Miami Heat, half the drunks on the Erin Express last weekend, and Frank the Tank, The Following is streaking. Two weeks in a […]

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Satire: Kevin Bacon’s The Following Too Violent For Chicago

Hollywood & Swine “reports”: “Chicago Mayor Rahm Emanuel announced today he is banning Fox’s serial killer series, “The Following,” starring Kevin Bacon, stating that it […]

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The Following Recap: Best Episode Yet?

Maybe it’s because it’s after midnight and I’ve been up since 6 a.m., moving nonstop through work, a four-mile run, a gym workout and a […]

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The Following Recap: Here a Cult, There A Cult, Everywhere a Cult

For the first time this season, I’m scared and it has nothing to do with a guy in a freaky Edgar Allan Poe mask. There […]

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The Following Recap: If You Love Joe Carroll, Set Him Free

Does anyone care about the Poe angle in The Following anymore? I wondered that after last night’s episode, when we finally got a break from […]

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The Official Drinking Game for The Following

My plans to recap this week’s episode of The Following were rolling along just fine—until Jacob got in the shower (fully clothed) with Emma (mostly […]

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The Following Recap: How Not to Stab Your Wife

  Early on in this week’s episode, cult specialist Debra Parker stands in front of a wall full of carefully arranged photos connected by string, […]

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The Following Recap: More Serial Killers, More Problems

It’s been a long time since a television show made me jump out of my seat, but last night’s episode of The Following got me […]