The Following 1/19
Ryan Hardy is back! Unfortunately, Joe Carroll may also be back, or perhaps he never left… That’s what his resurging followers want everyone to think as they stage a gruesome attack on a subway car leading up to the one-year anniversary of Joe’s “death”.
Hardy is just getting used to life again. Without Claire. While he survived that last attack from Joe Carroll’s cult, Claire wasn’t so lucky. He’s running, he’s sober, he’s teaching law enforcement classes, and he’s trying to live a normal life, as best as someone who’s seen what he’s seen can.
But that’s only half the story. Ryan hasn’t forgotten about Joe’s followers, and he’s keeping tabs on them as best he can, living as a civilian. He has a little help, of course, from his niece Max who’s a cop. Still, when the FBI come to him to ask for help with the latest cult attack, Ryan offers no advice and tries to escape as fast as he can. Only he’s going back to his apartment to pursue the case on his own.
Though we only get a glimpse of him, we do learn that yes, Joe did survive the explosion on the beach, and he escaped to parts unknown…
The Following 1/27
How excited are you that this show is back? If it’s not an 11, we’re not friends anymore.
So, Ryan’s on the Caroll cult case, unofficially, and while he’s making some progress, he really could use the sort of back-up the FBI can provide. These new followers are pretty hardcore.
I couldn’t place the twins without looking them up, and it is, as I suspected, only one actor playing both characters. Most recently, I saw him in Dexter, as Dexter’s protegee Zach Hamilton, so at least I can confirm that I recognized him and I wasn’t just seeing things.
The twins, the pretty French girl (Tiffany Boone) and others are wreaking havoc, trying to get Joe to surface. Emma is still around, but she hasn’t made a move other than to look into the stunts that the other followers are pulling.
Meanwhile, we learn that Joe has been living in a rural area, grown a thick, backcountry beard, and is attempting to pick up a backcountry accent, but his British just won’t fade enough for him to get it right. So far, he’s been good. He spends his time with a nice woman, a prostitute, but nice, nonetheless, and her daughter (foster/adopted?), whom he helps with her homework from time to time.
It’s a little too idyllic for a man like Joe Carroll. When the preacher, one of Joe’s friend’s regulars, stops by and recognizes Joe from the news, as his face has been recirculating in light of the recent attacks, Joe can’t just let him go. He kills again, and from the look on his face, you know this wasn’t just a slip. Joe’s coming back, and with all that time away, I’m betting his bloodlust is going to be brutal.
There appears to be a new female lead, Lily Gray (Connie Nielsen), whom Ryan has taken a liking to, and who was the only victim of the subway attack to survive. It seemed at first that she was only going to appear in a couple episodes, but as long as her luck and Ryan’s protection hold out, I think she may hang around for a while.
And, of course, Mike (Shawn Ashmore) is back as well. He still wants to help with the investigation, in spite of what he and Ryan went through the year before, but his attitude toward Ryan has hardened. He can’t understand why Hardy won’t throw in his two cents when his matter more than anyone else’s. I suspect he and Ryan will eventually make amends, call me an optimist, but for now, the tension is fun to watch.
How I Met Your Mother 1/20
Barney reaches a new level of drunkenness in which he cannot tell a lie, aka Truth Serum Drunk. Despite it being the night before the wedding, Ted and Robin settle in to ask Barney some of his most embarrassing secrets and gets answers to some of the things they’ve always wondered about him.
Meanwhile, Lily and Marshall press pause on their fight in order to have sex since they have not seen in each other in such a long time, and Marshall does his best to make it last as long as possible to avoid the fight. He succeeds, almost, because he manages to get Lily to fall asleep afterward, but as he creeps back to bed, he steps on a gag gift he brought back from Ted’s house and the sound of it wakes Lily up.
Their fight doesn’t last long, but it’s intense. There are some major issues here, stuff that’s been festering for years, that neither of them have fully dealt with. In a fury, Lily leaves the inn and it looks like she may not even come back for the wedding! We’ll have to wait and see, because the next episode doesn’t put the timeline more than a few minutes ahead of where it leaves off.
How I Met Your Mother 1/27
And the 200th episode. Holy shit. It’s crazy to think that this show has been on that long, and that it took this long to figure out how Ted meets his children’s mother.
We finally get to see how she lived before she met Ted, and how many close encounters they’ve actually had over the years. Her yellow umbrella, her bass guitar, her roommate, her ex-boyfriend, and finally, her arrival at the Farhampton Inn. Aside from holding a candle for a love she lost years ago, her dating life has been far less adventurous and eventful than Ted’s.
However, finally, they got me on her side. I have warmed up to her since the initial introduction, but this did the trick. You want to make me cry? A heartrending rendition of “La Vie en Rose” will do the trick. It was painful and beautiful and sweet and sad all at the same time, and Ted’s room at the inn is right next to hers, so he heard the whole thing. It seems they still haven’t technically met, but they’ll get there.
Also, it’s kind of crazy to think Robin and Barney still haven’t gotten married yet, considering they’ve been at the inn this ENTIRE SEASON. After hearing Barney’s drunken confessions to Ted from the last episode, I’m confident the wedding will still happen, but there are only a few hours left til the big event–plenty of stuff could still go wrong!
2 Broke Girls 1/20
Max learns Deke lives in a Dumpster. And a pretty tricked out one that. She’s totally cool with it. Caroline fears that having a gangster’s car towed away from in front of the cupcake window means the guy is after her, and she’s right, but he only wants a date, not to kill her.
2 Broke Girls 1/27
Max invites all her friends to Deke’s Dumpster for wine and cheese, partly so they can get to know him, and partly so she can find out what they think of him. Because she loves him. He loves her, and they just said that for the first time.
However, Caroline is starting to unravel Deke’s mystique. She sees his file at the school and learns his full name, which is that of a wealthy son of an elevator magnate. Max doesn’t want to believe in his wealth, but when she learns the truth, she rejects him. She can’t date somebody who’s rich like that.
Usually, people cling to wealthy people so they can share in it, but Max wants nothing to do with it. I can respect that. However, Deke seems like mostly a decent guy except for the lying thing, but I can see it from his perspective. I am on Max’s side, though–dating and relationships are hard enough without people lying to you, and income inequality in a relationship can be really difficult to overcome if one person as independent and self-sufficient as Max has to deal with another person who’s been handed everything.
Justified
Raylan and Tim go out to visit another Crowe as they look into a matter of a confidential informant, but they turn up little more than an angry dog.
Raylan: Did he get you?
Tim: No, but I think something just came between me and my Calvins.
Ava has a little altercation with one of the male prison guards (I know you know Danny Strong, a Whedony alum (Buffy) who has made the rounds from Gilmore Girls to Mad Men). The little bugger thinks he’s gonna rape her. Ava Crowder, who killed the husband who gave her that name. Ava Crowder, the woman engaged to Boyd Crowder, one of the meanest criminals Harlan has ever seen. Come on, son!
Ava doesn’t need to set him straight, though. One of the other guards does it for her, explaining how Ava is protected, and he had better not go near her again.
Dewey tries to do his own dirty work, and doesn’t do a good job of keeping it clean. That sounds like a contradiction of terms, but it’s the truth. His bartender who was skimming doesn’t leave completely dead, and while Dewey escapes and leaves him in the woods to die, the man makes it out to the highway and though he’s dead now, everybody also KNOWS he’s dead, which is a new problem for the Crowes.
Furthermore, Raylan shows up wanting to bring in the youngest Crowe, Kendall, who’s a lot sharper than his preteen looks might suggest. Darryl and the other Crowes and friends try to step in, but the kid agrees. We all know Raylan could have put them all down if he’d had to, anyway, so it really was a little silly on their part.
While Boyd’s problem with Cousin Johnny doesn’t seem to be entirely resolved, seeing as Johnny offers next to nothing as an explanation, it looks like we’re on our way to a Crowder/Crowe war as Darryl and Boyd butt heads next week.
DOUBLE BONUS: another Whedony alum, Alan fucking Tudyk (aka Wat from A Knight’s Tale, aka Wash from Firefly, aka Steve the Pirate from Dodgeball, aka Alpha from Dollhouse, and I guess he’s a regular on Suburgatory, too), is guest starring on next week’s episode. Be there or be square.
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Friday recaps will be up eventually, don’t rush me!
Wednesday night, it’s an all new Psych, Chicago PD, The Tomorrow People, Nashville, Men at Work, and the season finale of American Horror Story: Coven!
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