Following the Following

It's finally here! THE SMORE EPISODE! Thrill as Joe Carrol pretends to not know what a Smore is to bond with his son! But also, there's Ghost Paul! And Katherine quizzes Grant on Smore trivia! And more! It's an action packed episode that might be the absolute peak of this show!

As we anxiously anticipate the possibility of S'mores in The Following, Katherine recaps Season 1, Episode 9 of The Following, "Love Hurts"! An episode that features a particularly excellent follower, Amanda Porter, who is great and unhinged and awesome and kills people in some crazy ways. We also have some sad moments with Jacob and Paul, there's what seems to be a really terrible and sad party at a professor's house, Ryan Hardy keeps wanting to be killed. We play a game in which Katherine has to identify if an IMDB user review is of The Following or another show! Wheeehoooo!

Katherine recaps Season 1, Episode 8, "Welcome Home"! What happens after Joe escapes? A follower seems to bite his thumb off! Joe has an entire dorm of followers! Joe reunites with Joey! Nobody likes Kevin Bacon! The followers abduct Mike and play Fight Sport (and most certainly not Fight Club)! We play a game in which we have to combine the names of films, TV shows, and videogames that the stars of The Following have been in! It's very difficult!

Katherine may have gotten sick from mice while camping! Grant recaps a crazy episode! The warden of Joe's prison breaks the law because of HIS DAUUUGGGHHHTTTAAAHHH!! Some other stuff happens! Grant and Katherine agree on points! There's lots of bottom feeders this time around! Grant is obsessed with bathrooms! Katherine has some super difficult trivia about Renée Elise Goldsberry, who dies in this episode!

Katherine and Grant forget their names! Katherine (or is it Grant) is thinking more about Kevin Baking! Grant (no, it's Katherine) recap Episode 6 of "The Following," titled "The Fall," in which we begin with resolving a cliffhanger! There's a flashback inside a flashback! As the title of the episode suggests, Kevin Bacon Makes a Move! Mike gets shot! Grant makes a game for Katherine (or is it Katherine makes a game for Grant) in which s/he has to identify if a song that appeared in the show is an original or a cover!

Grant recaps episode five, "The Siege," a change in the formula of the show that has very few flashbacks! Katherine starts calling the star Kevin Baking! And Katherine shares her love of the musical "Hamilton," as this episode introduces as Joe Carrol's lawyer Renée Elise Goldsberry, who is best known as her recent Broadway portrayal of Angelica Schuyler. Grant does terribly at Katherine's game, in which he has to distinguish between Kevin Bacon, Edgar Allan Poe, Alexander Hamilton, and Lin-Manuel Miranda! And more!

Katherine recaps Season 1, Episode 4, "Mad Love"! Emma makes a Monty Python reference! More gay panic! Grant yells some stuff at the microphone after jumping out of his chair! Ryan needs to let love into his life and stop being a martyr! And a game about psychopathy!

Katherine and Grant recap "The Poet's Fire," Season 1, Episode 3 of "The Following." But first, there's a more serious discussion of the politics of talking about TV shows that focus on cops and the FBI at a time in which American culture is coming to terms with how cop shows often lead audiences to identify with the police, which serves to legitimate popular support of the police (rather than, for instance, questioning how support for the police intersects with and opposes movements for racial justice such as Black Lives Matter). All this, plus a discussion of a particularly crazy early episode, the fact that Joe Carrol is just such a good teacher that of course he's going to get students to be serial killers, and the usual segments, a 20 questions based game, and more! Books mentioned in this episode include: Sasha Torres's "Black, White, and In Color: Television and Black Civil Rights" and Adam Kotsko's "Why We Love Sociopaths: A Guide to Late Capitalist Television."

"Chapter Two" is the somewhat predictable name for Season 1 Episode 2 of "The Following," which this episode recaps! Katherine hates on Jordy, a really lame member of Joe Carroll's titular "Following"! Grant is surprised by the existence of a Thomas Friedman book in the background of a sorority house! A game based on IMDB Plot Keywords is played! And more!

In this episode, Katherine and Grant recap Season 1 Episode 1 of "The Following," which is titled, perhaps unsurprisingly, "Pilot." Some of their memories of the show (mostly Katherine's) are revealed to have been correct! Some of their memories of the show (mostly Grant's) are revealed to have been incorrect! They play a game of James Purefoy trivia!

Welcome to "Following the Following," a podcast about the Kevin Bacon television show "The Following," which aired on Fox from 2013 to 2015. In this episode, Grant and Katherine talk about their very hazy memories of watching The Following the first time around, and why in the world they're going to make a podcast about watching the entire thing once again. There's also a game!