The Following

It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Mess

By Kelsea Stahler | Aired on 03.24.2014

Teacher’s Pet - This confounding episode of The Following opens with a flashback to Claire's last moments in the hospital. In Ryan's memory, she was a goner, but in reality, as we know, she survived. And as it turns out, Mike was...

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2-10 Weecap	It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad Mess Teacher’s Pet - This week, The Following drops bombshells like pennies from a ripped pocket.	03.24.2014	C	Kelsea Stahler
Ep.	Title	Air/Pub'l	Grade	Author
2-9 Weecap	We Can See Clearly Now Unmasked - Finally, this season gets to the point.	03.17.2014 03.19.2014	A-	Kelsea Stahler
2-8 Weecap	Even Murderers Need Spring Cleaning The Messenger - The show cleans out a few of its less compelling storylines to focus better on Joe and Ryan.	03.10.2014 03.12.2014	A-	Kelsea Stahler
2-7 Weecap	Ryan Hardy: Professional Life-Ruiner Sacrifice - Everyone makes the titular "sacrifice" this week, even one character you'd never expect.	03.03.2014 03.05.2014	A-	Kelsea Stahler
2-6 Weecap	The Great Joe-dini Fly Away - Joe finally gets away from crazy Lily.	02.24.2014 02.26.2014	B+	Kelsea Stahler
2-5 Weecap	The Lonely Hearts Club Reflection - Everyone's pairing up on this non-Valentine's Day episode, including Joe and his long lost love: murder.	02.17.2014 02.19.2014	A	Kelsea Stahler
2-4 Weecap	All in the Family Family Affair - We meet Lily's family, Joe reconnects with his followers, and Ryan learns that his only family member might be getting herself into trouble.	02.10.2014 02.12.2014	A	Kelsea Stahler
2-3 Recaplet	Actually, Ryan, Maybe Don't Love the One You're With Trust Me - Ryan lost Claire, but he sees a close second in Lily… until he learns that the world of romance is not so kind to him.	02.03.2014 02.04.2014	A-	Kelsea Stahler
2-2 Recaplet	Might As Well Face It, He's Addicted to Blood For Joe - While the twins get Ryan in trouble with the FBI, Joe Carroll learns that he's got no hope of turning over a new leaf.	01.27.2014 01.28.2014	B-	Kelsea Stahler
2-1 Weecap	Ding, Dong, the Joe Ain't Dead Resurrection - Ryan finds that Joe Carroll isn't quite as dead as he thought.	01.19.2014 01.21.2014	B+	Kelsea Stahler
1-15 Weecap	Only This and Nothing More The Final Chapter - Once upon a midnight dreary, while Carroll plotted, bloody and bleary, a quaint and curious volume of cliché and bore, Ryan approached, nearly crazed. Suddenly there came a blaze, of gunfire from the follower most praised, grazed our Mike, whom we adore. They followed the clues, though dazed and sore, to find Claire and Parker, with death in store.	04.29.2013 04.30.2013	B	Sara Brady
1-14 Weecap	All the Children Are Insane The End Is Near - Carroll and his culties go on the run, Jacob finally meets Emma's knife, and Parker blunders her way into a shallow grave.	04.22.2013 04.23.2013	C	Sara Brady
1-13 Weecap	Let the Circle (of Eyeballs) Be Unbroken Havenport - Claire stabs Joe, a cultie stabs Donovan, and Joey escapes. Two out of three ain't bad.	04.15.2013 04.16.2013	B	Sara Brady
1-12 Weecap	Father's Little Mistake The Curse - Carroll has writer's block, so he badgers Ryan endlessly about how his father's murder affected his life. At the cult house, Claire and Emma get in an actual fistfight, but Roderick breaks it up before Claire can peel Emma's face off with her fingernails. Poor form, Roderick.	04.08.2013 04.09.2013	B	Sara Brady
1-11 Weecap	He May Be Bad, But He's Perfectly Good at It Whips and Regret - Ryan and Parker experiment with S&M, but in this case the initials stand for Sulking and Messing Up. As usual. And Claire finally realizes that it's a bad idea to let your ex-husband's crazy-ass murderer friends kidnap you, and an even worse idea not to make them try harder.	04.01.2013 04.02.2013	D	Sara Brady
1-10 Weecap	Jacob Have I Loved Guilt - After Carroll's men attack Claire's safe house, Ryan and Claire go on the run, to the home of his former partner, Tyson. And Tyson is the most competent good guy this show has ever seen, so of course he gets shot.	03.25.2013 03.26.2013	B	Sara Brady
1-9 Weecap	A Nutcase By Any Other Name Love Hurts - Since Carroll can't get his hands on his ex-wife, Claire Matthews, the cult goes hunting for every other woman named Claire Matthews. And Jacob finally commits his first murder.	03.18.2013 03.19.2013	B	Sara Brady
1-8 Weecap	Filleting Is Such Sweet Sorrow Welcome Home - New FBI supervisor Donovan shows up to take over Parker's inept investigation, and under his leadership Mike gets stabbed in the gut and beaten to a bloody pulp. And then the followers have a blood-smeared orgy.	03.11.2013 03.12.2013	C+	Sara Brady
1-7 Weecap	I Know Why the Caged Girl Screams Let Me Go - Joe Carroll escapes from prison and meets up with his dozens (!) of deranged followers, but not before murdering Olivia the Octo-Lawyer and taunting Ryan. Claire's eyebrows are sad.	03.04.2013 03.06.2013	C	Sara Brady
1-6 Weecap	Bludgeoning You With Poe, Forever and Ever, Amen The Fall - The hostage situation at the farmhouse ends up with a bunch of dead FBI agents and the threesome escaping, but no longer together, because Emma abandoned her boyfriends at the first sign of trouble. Claire's kidnapping also proves short-lived, because everyone is incompetent.	02.25.2013 02.26.2013	D	Sara Brady
1-5 Weecap	The Premature Rescue The Siege - Ryan finally zeroes in on where Paul, Emma, and Jacob are holding Joey and Megan, but before he can be the hero, he gets another cop killed and bumps off another follower. And Claire gets herself kidnapped, because she is a genius.	02.18.2013 02.19.2013	B	Sara Brady
1-4 Weecap	Blade Into You Mad Love - Primetime's stabbiest threesome gets even more psychotic this week, as Jacob reveals he's never killed anyone and Emma and Paul bond over how they're both in love with a timid virgin. Maggie kidnaps Ryan's sister and tries to kill him with batteries. It's a surprisingly bloodless murder attempt for this show. There must be a Karo Syrup shortage on set.	02.11.2013 02.12.2013	C	Sara Brady
1-3 Weecap	A Psalm of Death The Poet's Fire - This week we meet Follower Rick. Rick likes to play with fire, unlike the rest of his little pals, who are more into stabbing. Except for Paul, who's pretty much comfortable killing people however is most convenient. This show is so uplifting.	02.04.2013 02.05.2013	C+	Sara Brady
1-2 Weecap	A Descent into the Bloody Madhouse Chapter Two - Joe Carroll's followers play house with his son, and one of the not-gay boyfriends is totally jealous of how not gay his not boyfriend turned out to be. In other news, Claire still has the hots for Ryan, and Raines is an idiot, but a dangerous one.	01.28.2013 01.29.2013	C	Sara Brady
1-1 Weecap	Stab Her Gently Pilot - English professor-turned-serial killer Joe Carroll escapes from prison and picks up where he left off, which leads retired FBI agent Ryan Hardy to climb out of his vodka bottle and get back on the horse. Unfortunately, Carroll has a tribe of eager helpers who are as deranged as he is. Bloody eye-gougings ensue.	01.21.2013 01.22.2013	B	Sara Brady