The following 1x02 - Trivial and obvious

The FBI is engaged on two fronts: on the one hand, the search for Joey, son of Joe Carroll and Claire Matthews, who was kidnapped by three of the followers of the former literature professor. On the other, catching Jordy, the prison guard who converted to the sect, fresh baptism of blood. Three students are added to the mass grave that Carroll has dug, and that his disciples has delegated the task of filling. Jordy

For me in this episode did not work at all.

The murderess / disciple of the week I was bored to death to be good, to be honest unwell. Moving beyond the stereotype idiot fat, ugly, sweaty and influenced who is swept beyond their capacity, ability and awareness, the part of this episode focused oozes mediocrity: we seriously believe that a man, who is wanted by ' FBI as a murderess and a follower of the serial-killer most talked of the moment, it can slip into the house of the ex-wife of that serial killer, ex-wife, whose son has just been kidnapped by the Faithful of that serial-killer, no one noticing? Here, there are two possible answers:

The FBI had not left anyone to guard the house of Claire. And then they are morons.
The FBI had left someone to guard the house of Claire, and that someone has run Jordy let pass under the nose. And then they are morons.
The let out from the mouth of a

character of the same criticisms that come from our own, of mouths (Weston harshly scolding the local police for the mistake), does not remedy the error.

 It seems a gimmick, clever or dishonest according to the opinion, to suggest a realism and self-awareness that the series can not boast of possessing.

The fact that the flaws of the show are indicated by the characters of the show within the show does not delete them mica, defects. As well as the monologue of Carroll in the final of the pilot did not erase the clichés generously bestowed by the same.
 Some people consider it a tribute to the classic genre, who considers him metatext (Carroll is making happen in reality what happens in the books!); for me, a stuff over and over again is a stuff over and over again. That Williamson is aware of what he writes, and write it well, does not eliminate the what.

The comparison between Hardy and Carroll, at the close of episode, has not only worsened my already bad impression: why Carroll, this man who is anxious to paint as educated, brilliant, charismatic and intelligent, to assume that Hardy killed her man? Why Carroll is so surprised, so upset?

 Jacob, Emma and Paul

There is also the fact that the villain do not work. And 'appreciable want to build and deepen the personal background of these characters, but the point is that Emma, Jacob and Paul, in this episode spread boredom with both hands.
 Any segment dedicated to them was flat and predictable, replete with bickering between her and him that contend the other of which he could not care less.

Emma, ​​in particular, adds another notch on the stick of clichés: the girl shy and tender, crushed by the mother-eating men, fans of the writer Carroll, Carroll fans murderess, steps and turns into matricide, another step and becomes the leader of this cell of fanatics and murder, complete with a cold eye, a steady hand and expressions from hard .I find it hard to consider credible antagonist behind a character with a story like that, so splashed and hasty.