Trivia / The Following

• Acting for Two: Sam Underwood plays Creepy Twins Luke and Mark.
• Actor Allusion: This isn't the first time a character played by Nico Tortorella was killed by his girlfriend.
• Distanced from Current Events: The first season got hit with this twice. The premier was pushed back after the Sandy Hook Shootings. And then the Boston Marathon Bombing caused the nearest-occurring episode to be put on at an irregular hour.
• Divorced Installment: The show began life as Kevin Williamson's script for Scream 3, which would've focused on a "fan club" for the Woodsboro killers and the Stab movies seeking to become famous. Years later, he dusted off his old idea, removed all references to Scream, and created a TV show out of it.
• Dueling Shows: With the CW's Cult, and also NBC's Hannibal.
• Money, Dear Boy: Kevin Bacon decided to star in a television series because he and his wife, Kyra Sedgwick, needed the income after they lost a large amount of money in the Bernie Madoff Ponzi scheme.
• Playing Against Type:
  • Most of Kevin Williamson’s previous works (Dawson's Creek, Scream, The Vampire Diaries, The Secret Circle) are teen-oriented fare, not super-dark murder mysteries. However, the apparent pop-cultural awareness is nothing new for Scream fans.
  • Kristine Sutherland, best known as Buffy the Vampire Slayer's beloved mother, now plays a deluded cult member who gives her teenage daughter to the cult leader as a sex slave.
• Running Gag / Rule of Three: Meta-example with Annie Parisse (Agent Parker) since this is the third crime drama she was killed off of.

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