THE FOLLOWING
Fox, 9:00 p.m. ET
Last week, this series turned two different corners, both of which make it even more difficult to get behind this grim Kevin Bacon show. One is that Bacon’s character deliberately opted to use torture to further his investigation, putting The Following squarely in the Zero Dark Thirty and 24 debate. The other is that the villainous Carroll (James Purefoy) is now sprung from prison and holed up with a mansion of acolytes – all accomplished in a series of moves that abandoned entirely Carroll’s alleged obsession with the works of Edgar Allan Poe.