Things I Think I Think About The Following

It’s terrible.I really, really wanted to like it. The premise sold it as the bastard child of Millennium and Silence of the Lambs after a drunken hookup, and I have been waiting for another show to seize the mantle of metaphysical batshit craziness that Millennium owned for years. Unfortunately, it appears the show was adopted by CSI Miami, and spoiled rotten.Genius serial killers need more of a rationale than “he’s a genius”. And “he boinked my wife after I went to jail for killing a lot of people” is kind of an ex post facto thing.James Purefoy’s charismatic English professor/cult leader/serial killer may have brainwashed all his cultists with Poe stuff, but really, it feels like you could pass most of his exams just by reading the Classic Comics versions.If your weekly reveal is that someone unexpected is a cultist, the audience very quickly comes to expect that everyone’s a possible cultist.Apparently being psychotic and liking Poe turns you into Sam Fisher, even if you’re a chunky rent-a-cop who breathes hard after climbing a flight of stairs.Seriously. Poe? Leave the guy alone already. I want a serial killer who fetishizes Seabury Quinn or somebody. Maybe Kenneth Robeson. E.C. Tubb Nice house for an English professor.No wonder they had so much trouble catching this guy the first time around. The Washington Generals do better strategizing than the special task force assigned to stop the cult Kevin Bacon plays Kiefer Sutherland playing Jack Bauer. Lots of “he’s not playing by the rules but, by God, he gets results by beating the crap out of people and ignoring procedure!” action Cultists like to hide in abandoned houses wearing creepy masks in case Kevin Bacon comes along The only genuinely creepy stuff I’ve seen so far has involved the kidnapped kid. Which is creepy on multiple levels.There’s definitely an acute Terry O’Quinn shortage here And I’ve stopped watching.