The Following starte echt ijzer sterk om vervolgens keihard met de neus omlaag te gaan, want seizoen drie is echt een ramp die nergens meer over gaat. Vandaar dat de stekker er nu uit is getrokken. Wat mij overigens niet verbaast want ik had al gedacht dat dit geen derde seizoen zou halen. Persoonlijk zal ik er geen traan om laten.

A breakout hit when it premiered midseason 2013, The Following has steadily lost its audience (a post-NFL ratings pop last year, excluded) since the premiere, and the third season seemed to solidify that its viewership would not be bouncing back. With timeshifting, it still pulls 5.5 million viewers and a 1.9 rating among adults 18-49, but same-day showings have dwindled - even with a lead-in from Gotham.

The series, which (finally) lost second-billed Big Bad played by James Purefoy in a recent episode, also has the distinction of being one of the non-20th Century Fox TV shows on the broadcast network. It hails from Warner Bros. Television, where creator and executive producer Kevin Williamson has a deal. The Following was quite the big deal when it premiered. In addition to the series' graphic violence and gore nabbing headlines and prompting debate among critics, the star power of Kevin Bacon helped usher in the current age of shorter-order dramas toplined by cinema-caliber names (see Viola Davis on ABC's 15-episode How to Get Away With Murder).