DST & The Following in Thoughts On...

Sigh. It’s only Tuesday. Fucking Daylight Savings Time (DST) is screwing up my life. Are we sure we don’t lose an hour EVERY day? Because it feels like that. At least an hour. And I can’t sleep for more than three hours it seems. Is DST related to Mother Nature? Because she is being a raggy bitch lately as well. Snow, below zero, snow, sleet, rain, ice, snow. It makes a person want to scream, but if you do that, someone calls the police. You just cannot win in this world anymore.

Does anyone watch The Following? I know there are people on twitter, but 90% of them I cannot understand at all. Anyway, I want to take a minute to talk about how that show went from interesting/edgy to full on fucked. Last year it was interesting to watch how this group of Carroll Followers would stay ahead of the FBI. This year not so much. First you have the Necro-Twins who like to sleep with and presumably defile dead women. Gross. They also played house with a married couple they killed by stringing their corpses to chairs and having a full on dinner and conversation while calling them mom and dad. They are a treat. Then their mom Lily shows up and you know they share a family bed. Ick. Lily even goes so far to please Joe (who is not dead by the way) by caging up a girl for him to filet later (which he totally does). Then last week after Joe & Co. got away, one of his “friends” delivered him to another cult. A deep in the woods, KKK meets Glee sort of cult. Micah (new cult leader) is interesting in a Deliverance sort of way. They do their culty thing, string Emma up, slit her wrists, drink her blood. She lives (which would have pissed me off last season, but this season girlfriend is kind of growing on me). So last night, Micah decides he wants to kill people so they will write a book about him. Apparently he does not know about Amazon’s self-publishing program. He would like Joe to help him get started on the killing lifestyle. Like a 101 course. Not sure what they discussed, but good old Micah delivers communion to everyone at the cult dance and the start dropping like flies. So, I am guessing an A on his first assignment.

Meanwhile you have Ren McHardy (Ryan Hardy played by Kevin Bacon) and his niece Silver Taylor (see 90210 reboot – Jessica Stroup?). Together they let criminals escape. Then there is everyone’s favorite techy geek like guy from last season Mike who has gone off the reservation this year. First he tried to kill one of the Necro-Twins and then last week he watched as the other sliced his fathers throat from ear to ear. He and Silver are totally going to bone by the way. The FBI Director meets up with Ren McHardy and Mike’s Dad’s funeral and basically gives him the go-ahead to be all Jack Bauer. Only problem? Ren McHardy is more like Barney Fife than Jack Bauer. First he plants a “bug” inside Joe Carroll’s mentors house and then when the good doctor takes a slutty/fugly reporter “hostage” and strings her up to an exam table in his Saw basement, he gets knocked out by the doctor’s trusty protégé. That would not have happened to Jack Bauer. In the end, all is well and Mike rushes in to save the day along with Silver. Then they go to work on the doctor, where Mike does more “work” than Ren.

With shows like The Following, Intelligence (which has to be a total pun), the FBI is taking a huge hit. They are unable to accomplish anything. Actually I am not sure Intelligence is FBI, but it does not look good for the government when you put the China Beach whore in charge of an agency.

Actually if you think about it, government doesn’t look so good when you factor in Scandal. First you have a demo-publican president who technically didn’t win the election because his wife, a supreme court justice, his mistress, his chief of staff and some random big business dude all conspired to rig the election. His wife keeps his balls in her designer handbag, loaning them out to Olivia as she sees fit. Also his chief of staff pimped out his husband to the vice president’s husband, who then killed him when she found out he had a penchant for man meat. Then she got POTUS’ COS (chief of staff) to help her cover it up and now she is running AGAINST POTUS for POTUS. Oh and then on the side you have this little assassin core called B613 because apparently the creative juices just gave the fuck up when it comes to naming shit. But this is the show that took months to name a baby Teddy. FFS.

I wonder if Canadian programming tackles political issues? I do watch Motive & Rookie Blue. Oh and I watched Flashpoint. Not really bad series in the grand scheme of what is on television right now. I am looking at you Juan Pablo. Oh and you too Kardashians.

If you have not watched The Following, go catch last season on Netflix and then catch up with this season on Hulu. So will definitely be disappointed.