{"id":8124,"date":"2015-06-10T09:11:59","date_gmt":"2015-06-10T15:11:59","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/?p=8124"},"modified":"2015-06-09T19:46:48","modified_gmt":"2015-06-10T01:46:48","slug":"post-mortem-the-following","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/2015\/06\/post-mortem-the-following\/","title":{"rendered":"Post Mortem &#8211; The Following"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/following3.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-8182\" src=\"http:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/following3.jpg\" alt=\"following3\" width=\"325\" height=\"422\" srcset=\"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/following3.jpg 325w, https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/07\/following3-231x300.jpg 231w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 325px) 100vw, 325px\" \/><\/a>Hoping to recreate the magic that was <em>24<\/em> with Kiefer Sutherland, FOX turned to fellow movie star Kevin Bacon for a short-run series, each season clocking in at 15 episodes, to air on Monday nights. \u00a0Bacon, in his first starring television role, played FBI agent Ryan Hardy, renowned for dealing with serial killer Joe Carroll. \u00a0Throughout the series, Hardy hunts down Carroll and his apprentices, eventually becoming obsessed with him.<\/p>\n<p>Sadly for FOX, <em>The Following<\/em> never became the hit that <em>24<\/em> was. \u00a0It managed to stick around for 3 seasons before being axed earlier this spring. \u00a0As of this writing, the remaining 2 episodes are sitting on the DVR waiting to be watched. \u00a0I&#8217;m sure the ending will be just as unsatisfying as the rest of the series.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hoping to recreate the magic that was 24 with Kiefer Sutherland, FOX turned to fellow movie star Kevin Bacon for a short-run series, each season clocking in at 15 episodes, to air on Monday nights. \u00a0Bacon, in his first starring television role, played FBI agent Ryan Hardy, renowned for dealing with serial killer Joe Carroll. [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[2247,806,2939,3416,4314],"class_list":["post-8124","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-television","tag-2247","tag-fox","tag-kevin-bacon","tag-kiefer-sutherland","tag-the-following"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8124"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8184,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8124\/revisions\/8184"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8124"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8124"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/learningturkey.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8124"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}