Showing posts with label the following. Show all posts
Showing posts with label the following. Show all posts

Monday, June 1, 2015

Eschatology & Series Finales: Why Can’t We All Be Happy With Endings? Mad Men, Letterman, & The Following

By Benjamin Delloiacono

Even if you exist in the furthest outskirts of the pop-culture periphery, you will at very least be aware that recently we saw the long-awaited series finale of AMC’s Mad Men as well as the final episode of Late Night with David Letterman. If you have not heard of either of these events, well, thanks for reading! And Jesus Christ what kind of bullshit schedule do you have that has made you so completely oblivious to these milestones!? You must be a very, very busy vascular surgeon... or, like, a parent or something.

No doubt while you were reconstructing that femoral artery or just trying to keep up with the pounds of laundry produced by your sloven progeny you also missed last week’s series finale of The Following! So, what with all these finales, that patient bleeding out on your table, that never-ending monotony of washing, drying, and folding (fuck! All that folding!), and a general apocalyptic sense of ending in the air, why is it that you were so unaware that last week also saw the series finale of the Fox network’s Kevin Bacon serial-killer vs. FBI-agent horror/psychological thriller, The Following???