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Originally Posted by jamieva 

Somebody in that 3some will flip soon and take out one of them.

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The Following’s James Purefoy on Kissing Kevin Bacon and Violence on TV
By Denise Martin

In the Fox thriller The Following, James Purefoy plays Edgar Allen Poe literalist and serial killer Joe Carroll, a man who in the series’ first episode removed the eyeballs of his victim and strung up her corpse like a side of beef. While promoting the show on a panel last month, he and The Following’s creative team were hit with a barrage of questions about the level of gore on the show and being accountable in a post-Newton world. He later told Vulture that he found the discussion superficial. “It’s intellectually poor and substandard because it's inflammatory, it's tabloid-esque, it's easy,” he said. Purefoy, who also starred in HBO’s graphic soap opera Rome, expanded on that as well as the research he did to play the show’s Über-villain, whom he claims could survive the season. He also told us what it was like to kiss Kevin Bacon.


What do you make about the amount of violence on the show?
I'm surprised that in a society, in a culture that's been watching violence on film, television, and stage for two and a half thousand years, anyone brings it up anymore. One woman asked [series creator Kevin Williamson], “How do you come up with all those ways of killing people?” Has she never seen King Lear, where a man has his eyes pulled out in front of the audience? She never had seen Titus Andronicus, where a woman is made to eat a pie with her own sick children in it? The very idea, it's just preposterous, to tell you the truth.

The idea that —
That violence on television, film, or in video games has any effect whatsoever. I am absolutely as appalled as anybody else by the massacres that happen in this country. I really am. But [violence on TV] is a smokescreen, an excuse. The situation is much more complex than people watching violence in entertainment. These programs are seen all over the world and it’s only in this country that these kind of things are happening with such alarming regularity.

Let’s talk about the show itself. When you signed on, how long did you think Joe Carroll would last on the show?
When you sign up for a show in the United States, it's six or seven years, generally speaking.


( Full article here ->http://www.vulture.com/2013/02/followings-james-purefoy-on-tv-violence.html?mid=agenda--20130218 )

Originally Posted by keenan 

This seemingly limitless supply of "followers" is getting old real fast, if anytime they need to make something bad happen the writers introduce yet another follower as a plot crutch then it's a sign of weak writing in my opinion. If they introduce one more next week then I'm done with this show, even though I do enjoy both Purefoy's and Bacon's performances.

This week's episode was exciting, but only because they brought in 2 more followers, enough already, let the show stand on the strength of it's existing characters, let's see the writers actually write compelling TV instead of taking the easy way out .

Originally Posted by taxman48 

funniest part I thought was Kevin telling the hostage don't scream, she does anyway!! He puts the duct tape back on..

Originally Posted by 73shark 

Once again the FBI looks like the Keystone Cops when they let her use the "I'm just going to the restroom" ruse.

Originally Posted by Joseph 

I don't want to defend the show, but here I go anyway...since Purefoy's character is supposed to be all geniusy and everything, it would make sense that the "book" he has planned for Bacon's character would be complicated, and have more than one "chapter". Given that we get beaten over the head every week with the recap showing the scene between Purefoy and Bacon in which he tells Bacon about his "plans", Williamson seems to be telling us that there will be multiple chapters/iterations of the story. Also, a "genius" with the time to plan this thing would probably (in the eyes of a writer for a tv show) create an elaborate, overlapping, complicated plan.

I think it's time to wrap up the tale of the chick, the swinging hunk, and the confused man child, and propel the story down the path to whatever is next. These characters are played out already. It's still hard to see this going more than one season, unless each season is a stand alone story with unique characters.

Originally Posted by bruce73 

I know. It had just flashed in my mind it'd be great if he did that... and then he did! I was howling. And what about that cop who was shot? Did he graduate at the bottom of his class or what?

Originally Posted by baja7475 

Law enforcement makes more mistakes and brain dead moves in real life then most people realize but that's human. Look at the real life fiasco that happened in L.A. in the past 2 weeks that got several officers dead (hearts go out to everybody that fights evil). This show is the best new show of the season imo, it's got me and everybody I know on the edge of our seat. It's definitely the most talked about show at work and at home. Very entertaining.

Originally Posted by DSperber 

Looks like this show has now intentionally DUPLICATED the presentation style of "Lost".

Flashback scenes with dates shown, to provide back-story, or to fill in or explain things in the present (e.g. "snippy-snip").

Exact same end of the episode, with "BOOM" climax music and then "The Following" in white letters against black background moving out to the viewer (which is also how the episode started).

Same edit/cut style as "Lost", and same music, to "build tension".

I could not stop thinking "Lost" throughout the whole episode.

Originally Posted by NetworkTV 

Lost didn't show dates on the flashbacks. You must be thinking of Person of Interest.

Honestly, if Lost had started out this silly, I wouldn't have watched it all those seasons. It would have saved me a ton of disappointment at the end.

Originally Posted by NetworkTV 

Lost didn't show dates on the flashbacks. You must be thinking of Person of Interest.

Originally Posted by philw1776 

Problem is many of "the Following's" flashback back stories are somewhat mundane and boring. LOST's backstories were most always fascinating and unexpected and insightful.

Originally Posted by fhall1 

I'm liking the show, but not how long it takes the cops/FBI to get anywhere....the ep where Bacon and boy FBI agent were sauntering around the house and the black FBI agent gets slashed....they were right outside for god's sake....not 5 blocks away and it took them forever to get to the house. Then this week...Bacon asks boy FBI agent where they are and gets "we're a couple miles away - be right there", even stretching "couple" to mean "five" they should have been at the house in five minutes (assume average 60 MPH with siren/lights on) - yet Bacon runs around outside scouting for a while, has a shootout in the barn, breaks into the basement and talks to the tied up girl, then walks around the first floor a little before he gets "ambushed" - and they still haven't arrived.

Originally Posted by fhall1 

I'm liking the show, but not how long it takes the cops/FBI to get anywhere....the ep where Bacon and boy FBI agent were sauntering around the house and the black FBI agent gets slashed....they were right outside for god's sake....not 5 blocks away and it took them forever to get to the house. Then this week...Bacon asks boy FBI agent where they are and gets "we're a couple miles away - be right there", even stretching "couple" to mean "five" they should have been at the house in five minutes (assume average 60 MPH with siren/lights on) - yet Bacon runs around outside scouting for a while, has a shootout in the barn, breaks into the basement and talks to the tied up girl, then walks around the first floor a little before he gets "ambushed" - and they still haven't arrived.