re: Is The Following the most ridiculous show in TV history????

This is the first show I have quit watching midseason.

Thank you Fox for breaking the cycle.

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Does this really need to be explained to you?

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No, I understand that zombies aren't real. And neither are mythical winters and shite.

My point is that this show, too, is fiction. They don't begin the episode saying "based on a true story" or, "check out how realistic this show it"


For real, this show is just like 24. They let the characters get deep in the shite and then the hero saves the day.

It's fiction with really bad writing trying to place it in our world.

Well I never really watched 24 so I cant really comment on that

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Do you really think this is more outrageous and out of the box than 24 was? That show was beloved.

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Yeah I do.

At least in 24 the bad guys were terrorist organizations/foreign political entities with tons of money, power, and resources to make the things they were doing at least remotely feasible.

Following is literally a bunch of nerdy weirdos with no resources that just happen to have the same psychotic tendencies in the perfect position within key government/law enforcement agencies to pull off these absurd plots.

And even in 24, while it did attempt to base itself somewhat in reality, Jack Bauer is at his core a superhero.

He's a modern day Rambo taking on foreign baddies draped in the American flag. It's escapism.

Following isn't escapism, it is dark as shite and disturbing to watch purposely to try to make itself seem more real.

And Kevin Bacon's character is the anti-superhero. He's supposed to be this everyman alcoholic, depressed, broken man with a heart that barely works. And he isn't even a very good FBI agent at that

I don't know man. As absurd as 24 was, it just worked somehow, especially in the early seasons.

This one just didn't work after the first episode, although like I said earlier the pilot really grabbed me.

Since then

To each their own though of course

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I like it too. I guess everything else is so realistic that everyone like.


Like Walking Dead and Game of Thrones...

I love when people get all upset over a tv show being unrealistic.

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But yeah, I'm not even going to dignify that with a response