The Following

The Following is Kevin Williamson's crime thriller for Fox, and it's built to run: three seasons and forty five episodes, the kind of length that rewards someone willing to properly settle in rather than dip in and out.

Kevin Bacon leads it, which is enough on its own to get my attention before I know anything else about it. It's a crime thriller rather than anything supernatural, so the fear here is the ordinary, human sort: tension built from people and decisions rather than ghosts or monsters, which is its own particular kind of uncomfortable.

I would not put this on for a quick watch before bed. It's one for an evening when you've properly cleared your schedule, a strong coffee at your elbow and no plans to be interrupted, because a crime thriller with three seasons behind it is not something you want to pause halfway through an episode.

Good company for anyone who likes their nerves worked on steadily rather than jumped at, on a dark evening with nowhere else to be.