The following 1x01 - Poe, note of color or statement of intent ?

Nothing good can come from a show that starts off with the opening chords of Marilyn Manson's grim and gothed remake of "Sweet Dreams".
The anthem of teenage Hot Topic shoppers everywhere and a soundtrack staple for torture-porn movies.
 But that's the tone that was set by the debut of Fox's new drama The Following, network television's witless answer to gritty cable dramas that do it a lot better.
I confess. I was about to begin my review with this extract from a story by Edgar Allan Poe, "The Black Cat", the best known and the most cited in the course of the pilot .. But then I realized that the horror and psychological asphyxiating Poe's work has to do very little with bloody thriller, sometimes naive but always fascinating that turned out to be the Following, that the name of Poe is more a note of color that a true statement of intent. But that's okay, just be aware of what you want to be and where we want to go, and this is especially true for a TV series.




The pilot works, especially in terms of charm and atmosphere. And it is especially the final to rescue many of the flaws highlighted so far, for a couple of reasons: the first concerns the resolution of the main event, which ends in a manner not at all obvious and very powerful. Is then really punchy and resonant confrontation between Hardy and Carroll (James Purefoy a fascinating and disturbing, yes him perfectly in part) during which the element of "literary" and almost metatextual actions of the ruthless killer you said (the ratio of the horror imaginary and the real, where the cruelty of the narrator towards the narrated world is actualized in the cruelty of serial killer against the real world, or even overturning continuous between object narrated and narrating subject that occurs between Carroll and Hardy), by nature more evocative self (the Scream, for example close to the author) and the endless possibilities of development.



I'm quite curious to understand that the form will take the series in its weekly format, since, stealing in Carroll, this pilot it was only the prelude. Whereas Williamson is a writer who can write and manage very well the suspense in the story television especially in the long run (and the second season of The Vampire Diaries proves it), The Following, and has what it takes to become a product challenging and fun that leaves the depth and complexity of the one part to focus on entertainment more simple but not for this easier. The call then is to fasten your seat belts and enjoy the ride. I'm in. And you?