Part II of my weekly ‘This Week In Horror’ column.  For mini-recaps of ‘The Following,’ ‘Bates Motel,’ and ‘Hannibal,’ see Part I.

So. We have one show hitting its low, one show hitting its high, and one show choosing not to air itself for fear of making people upset.

What is so different between events on ‘Bates Motel’ spiraling out of control in a good way versus events on ‘The Following’ spiraling out of control in a bad way?  There’s a fine line between brilliant chaos and just a chaotic mess.

‘The Following’ is filled with ineptitude on the part of the authorities, so shouldn’t one ...

Welcome to This Week In Horror!  In this two-part column I dissect (pun intended) the most popular blood-soaked shows on television.  Part I will be a series of mini-recaps outlining the highlights (and low-lights) of each episode that week.  Part II will be the ‘Dissection.’

But first, for the inaugural column, an introduction:

Nothing is hotter on television at the moment than horror.  Throughout the years there have been a few shining examples of much-loved horror shows (‘Twin Peaks,’ ‘The X-Files,’ ‘Buffy The Vampire Slayer’), but by and large the genre has been dominated by big scree...

While filming serial killer drama "The Following," Kevin Bacon stays in character all day long and only switches off when he leaves the set.

The actor plays a troubled agent hunting down murderers in the TV series and insists the dark subject matter makes it impossible to be his normal self during breaks on set.
 
He told Britain's OK! magazine, "I have to work on that (relaxing). The one thing I can't do is switch it off and on over the course of the day like some people can. They say cut and turn to the person and say, 'Anyway, blah blah blah, what time is lunch?' But I have to kind of s...

The Following has definitely stepped up its game after its first two episodes, both of which were rather unimpressive. With so much hype going into the series premiere, it wouldn’t have been surprising if the pilot episode had been less thrilling than I (and Fox) had made it out to be. Even so, the pilot was pretty rough. The dialogue was atrocious and nearly every scene was ripped from some other serial killer or psychopath movie/TV show.  I can only attribute the enhanced quality of the show’s writing since that time to the fact that creator Kevin Williamson must read my recaps and saw ho...

Well, that was quite a surprise, wasn’t it? After The Following’s first two mediocre episodes, last night’s installment (“The Poet’s Fire”) finally cranked up the suspense and delivered on the promise Fox had been making with its endless promos and marketing. I’ll be the first to admit that I was crazy excited about The Following leading up to its premiere and that I was seriously underwhelmed with the pilot episode which was little more than an amalgam of every other serial killer TV show or movie in recent memory. The second episode wasn’t much better, though it did drop the horrific dial...

My initial enthusiasm for Fox’s new serial killer drama The Following is waning somewhat after last night’s flaccid and uninspired second episode. Picking up where the premiere episode left off, “Chapter Two” is a much less tense hour of television than I had hope for. As the episode opens, we watch Jordy (Steve Monroe), one of Joe Carroll’s followers, present himself as a police officer in order to get into a sorority house. While there, he kills three of the nine girls who were home even though, as we learn later, he is barely a halfwit, according to Carroll. Even with help from other mem...

After months of hype, The Following finally premiered last night on Fox and, for the most part, the first episode did not disappoint. Created by Kevin Williamson, the brainchild behind the Scream movie franchise as well as The Vampire Diaries, The Following paints a portrait of a serial killer so intelligent and psychopathic that the cat-and-mouse game he initiates in the pilot will be enough to carry an audience through at least the first season. 

Our killer is Joe Carroll (James Purefoy), a former English professor who is an expert in Gothic literature, especially the works of Edgar Alla...

One of the most anticipated pilots shown at New York Comic Con (NYCC) to attendees last October was The Following from creator Kevin Williamson of Dawson’s Creek and The Vampire Diaries fame.

The show follows a disgraced former FBI agent named Ryan Hardy (Kevin Bacon) who is brought back into the fold to track down the serial killer he captured who has now escaped: Joe Carroll (James Purefoy.) Carroll is obsessed with the works of Edgar Allen Poe and now seems to be tracking the one victim that got away. Hardy even has to consult with Claire Matthews, Carroll’s ex-wife, who he also had an ...

Good morning and Merry Christmas everyone! Now that the holidays are just about behind us, it's time see what new Midseason shows are debuting. If you didn't get what you wanted for Christmas, maybe one of these new shows will be a welcome gift to look forward to.

Deception - Monday, January 7 at 10 p.m. E.T. on NBC

When wealthy socialite and notorious party girl Vivian Bowers is found dead of an overdose, no one is really surprised.  The heiress to the Bowers pharmaceutical empire has been tabloid fodder for years: wild, pretty, privileged… and now dead at the age of 32.  But for FBI age...