Some Serious Series: The Following (2013)

created by: Kevin Williamson
directed by: Marcos Siega, Joshua Butler
written by: Kevin Williamson y otros
photography by: David S. Tuttman
edited by: Matthew Colonna, Rob Seidenglanz, Todd Desrosiers
music by: John Frizzell
cast: Kevin Bacon, James Purefoy, Shawn Ashmore
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Kevin Williamson was the "renewer" (as far as the genre allowed) of teen terror in the mid-nineties; titles such as Scream (1996), I know what you did last summer (1997) and The Faculty (1998) opened a new path that produced uncountable copies/parodies.

He then made a big career change to focus in televisión, where he brought Glory Days (2002), Hidden Palms (2007), but maybe the best known of all series he made for tv is still Dawson Creek (1998).

In the last years, he made two series both targeted to the teen audience: of The Vampire Diaries (2009) and The Secret Circle (2011), a Dawson Creek with witchcraft  product. But it was not yet until The Following, that Williamson created a series aimed to an adult audience.

The Following has a lot from The Silence of the Lambs, and the Joe Carroll character a lot from Hannibal Lecter. But, on the other side, the character played by Kevin Bacon, Ryan Hardy, an alcoholic former agent of the FBI, is totally opposed to the one that Jodie Foster played in the famous movie, Clarice Sterling, that stands as a young and driven agent.

The Following plot tells the prosecution that this former agent portrayed by Bacon leads to hunt the disciples of a convicted serial killer, Joe Carroll, who guides them from prison in what seems to be a one thousand tentacles cult.

The Following has a great visual package, as expected; the script of the first episodes is quite enterntaining, but we will have to see if it doesn't become too repetititve.