It’s been snowing in our far southern hometowns all day and snow totals of 1.5″-3.5″ are already being reported through mid-afternoon.
The “Winter Weather Advisory” and the “Winter Storm Watch” from the Quad Cities eastward and southward from this morning have been upgraded to a “Winter Storm Warning” from this evening to Saturday evening.
Light snow will become widespread this evening and tonight. By daybreak Saturday, the snow will be moderate to heavy as the storm system moves closer.
Moderate to heavy snow is expected for about 6-9 hours Saturday morning into early afternoon. The storm will be departing the area by early evening.
Here’s another look at my projected snow totals and I see no reason to change them.
For the snow weary, another big snow is possible Tuesday and Tuesday night!
Anthony
ORIGINAL POST: FRIDAY, JANUARY 31, 2014, 5:54 a.m.
This January, the Quad Cities is already the record book as one of the ten snowiest Januarys on record at #7.
So far, 17.7″ of snow has accumulated this month and more could be added before midnight. However, the heavier snow will come late Friday night and Saturday.
A “Winter Weather Advisory” and a “Winter Storm Watch” covers the area and goes into effect Friday evening into Saturday evening.
Here is how much snow I’m forecasting today, tonight, and Saturday.
KEEP UP ON THE LATEST FORECAST BECAUSE THIS COULD CHANGE!
The bottom line is that I don’t mind the snow. I just wish we could keep the bitter cold away!
Another weekend is here. Do you have big plans? I’m emceeing a fashion show tonight and tomorrow is my company’s Christmas party. ‘Tis the season.
As always, on Friday, I share some of my random thoughts and I welcome your feedback.
SNOW AND MORE SNOW
This January, the Quad Cities is already the record book as one of the ten snowiest Januarys on record at #7. So far, 17.7″ of snow has accumulated this month and more could be added before midnight. However, the heavier snow will come late Friday night and Saturday.
A “Winter Weather Advisory” and a “Winter Storm Warning” covers the area and goes into effect Friday evening into Saturday evening.
(Editor’s note: Only the “Advisories” map was updated. The snow projections are still looking good.)
Here is how much snow I’m forecasting today, tonight, and Saturday.
KEEP UP ON THE LATEST FORECAST BECAUSE THIS COULD CHANGE!
The bottom line is that I don’t mind the snow. I just wish we could keep the bitter cold away!
GRAMMY LOVE & HATE
This is not about Taylor Swift going home empty-handed after she thought she won “Album of the Year”.
At the 56th annual Grammy Awards last Sunday night, the big winners were the French electronic duo Daft Punk taking home five trophies and Paul McCartney and Macklemore & Ryan Lewis each winning four awards.
Grammy’s Best New Artist, Macklemore & Ryan Lewis performed their same-sex marriage anthem “Same Love” with Mary Lambert and Madonna. Toward the end of the song, rapper and talk show host, Queen Latifah married 33 straight and gay couples. Latifah was sworn in as a commissioner by the state of California to perform the ceremony and her powers ended that night at midnight.
It was a happy time for those on stage and for many celebrities.
Meanwhile, others were not happy and definitely didn’t share any love on Twitter.
What do you think?
GRIMM NEEDS TO RESIGN!
New York Republican Rep. Michael Grimm, who’s been under a two-year investigation about his 2010 campaign fundraising, needs to resign after threatening a reporter Tuesday night.
After the interview that Grimm walked away on, Capitol Hill reporter Michael Scotto closed by saying, “Congressman Michael Grimm does not want to talk about some of the allegations concerning his campaign finances … but as you saw he refused to talk about that”. At that point, Grimm comes back and allegedly tells the reporter, “Let me be clear to you, you ever do that to me again I’ll throw you off this f—–g balcony.”
Grimm issued this statement after the altercation, “I doubt that I am the first member of Congress to tell off a reporter, and I am sure I won’t be the last.”
I’m sorry Congressman Grimm, but telling a reporter off and threatening to break him in half and throwing him off a balcony is not just telling someone off!
As a reporter that was thrown against a car in Lubbock, Texas, by someone who didn’t want a story done about them, I find your comments belligerent and unprofessional. Go away!
FOOD FOR THOUGHT
SOCHI IS A HARD SALE
One week from today, the 2014 Winter Olympics kick off in Sochi, Russia.
Whether it’s the economy, the terrorist threats, or the fact that the games are being held in Russia, which has displayed so much encompassing love to all people in the past year (sarcasm), tickets are not selling like in past games.
Around the middle of January, Sochi organizers say that 70% of tickets have been sold for the games. These tickets went on sale in February 2013 and ranged in price from 500 rubles ($15) to 40,000 rubles ($1,200).
Four years ago, 97% of the 1.54 million tickets available for the 2010 Winter Olympics in Vancouver, Canada were sold. And, 97% of the 8.5 million tickets for the 2012 Summer Games in London were snatched up.
SOCHI HAS NONE OF THEM!
Anatoly Pakhomov, the mayor of Sochi, Russia, is certain that his city has no gay people! He told the BBC, “We do not have them in our city.”
When the journalist told him that he was in the city’s gay bar the night before, the mayor added, “I am not sure, but I don’t bloody know them.”
So, if you’re keeping count, there are no gays in Sochi or Iran!
AND, RUSSIA IS CONCERNED WITH GAYS?
In the February/March 2014 issue of “The Advocate”, it’s reported that the HIV infection rate in Russia is twice as high as the United States. In the numbers that were released last month, 58% of cases result from intravenous drug use, 40% from heterosexual sex, and 2% from “other”, which includes gay sex.
Russia should not be focused on gay people as the root of all evil. If the HIV/AIDS rates were not bad enough, the country has the world’s highest abortion rate. One reason, the magazine reports, is there is such a stigma when it comes to buying condoms that abortion is most prevalent form of contraception. Insane!
I really do feel for the people of Russia, even though as I blogged last fall, a Pew Research Center survey shows that 74% of Russians think that gay people should not be accepted by society!
ON A LIGHTER NOTE…
“I’ve got chills and they’re multiplying” and it has nothing to do with a young John Travolta or Olivia Newton-John.
If you love “Grease”, check out these Swedish Marines in Afghanistan and their rendition of “Greased Lightning.”
UNDERSTANDING SHAKESPEARE
Does William Shakespeare’s style of writing confuse you when you read it?
If you’re never read Shakespeare or it’s been a long time, have no fear. I have a short “Hamlet” monologue by Tom Sandoval from the Bravo show, “Vanderpump Rules” for you to enjoy.
Don’t worry because there won’t be a quiz afterwards. You’ll likely be distracted and not comprehend a thing!
“BLUE JASMINE”
The latest Woody Allen movie, “Blue Jasmine” is up for two Oscar acting awards: Cate Blanchett for Best Actress and Sally Hawkins for Best Supporting Actress.
Blanchett is Jasmine, a New York City socialite who loses everything because of her husband’s shady business dealing. Broke, she heads to San Fransisco to live with her sister, Ginger, and her two children in a poorer part of town in a small, confining apartment.
This is Blanchett’s sixth Oscar nomination. She won for Best Supporting Actress in 2004 for “The Aviator”. In “Blue Jasmine”, she’s incredible as the pill-popping and boozing woman who has to start over and even learn how to hold down a job.
It’s heartbreaking when you learn that pills, alcohol, and having no money may not be the worst of Jasmine’s problems.
It’s going to be a close Oscar race between Blanchett and Meryl Streep in “August: Osage County”.
GRADE: B+
PICK HIT
International superstar and one of my favorite entertainers, Kylie Minogue is back with a new song, “Into The Blue”, the first single from her latest album, “Kiss Me Once” that comes out March 18, 2014.
Kylie has sold about 70 million records worldwide. In the U.S., she’s had 5 Top 40 hits on the Billboard Hot 100 with two reaching the Top Ten. However, in the U.K, Kylie has scored 49 Top 40 hits with 35 of them reaching the Top Ten, and 8 topped the charts!
I really hope that she tours in 2014 and that I get to see her!
“MORE TALES OF THE CITY”
I’m on a roll with my reading. It really helps that I’ve been spending a lot of time on the treadmill. Since January 2nd, I’ve lost 6.6 pounds. I’ve hit brick wall now and the weight loss from here on out is going to more difficult and slower.
I just finished my fourth book this year, which matches what I read in all of last year!
“More Tales of the City” is the 1980 follow-up to Armistead Maupin’s “Tales of the City”. “More Tales” is the second in the nine-book series. I reviewed the first book last week and talked about it and the PBS television miniseries based on it that debuted in the U.S. twenty years ago this month.
In this book, we still follow all of the comings and goings of Anna Madrigal and her “children” at 28 Barbary Lane on Russian Hill in San Francisco. It’s still the 1970s.
Mary Ann and Michael go on a cruise and both meet the men of their dreams, but Mary Ann’s is a man of mystery. He just can’t remember it. Mona escapes to a Nevada brothel (even though the book uses the w-house word) and learns a big secret. Also, a major character dies, one has a health issue, and another is almost attacked!
After reading the first book, I started watching the first miniseries again. Now that I’m two books in, I’ll continue on to the second installment miniseries that aired on Showtime in 1998. Here’s that trailer and it does contain adult language and images. (The first miniseries’ trailer is in last week’s random blog.)
Now, it’s on to book three in the series.
“I’M A LITTLE BIT COUNTRY”
Missouri-born country singer Sara Evans will release her seventh studio album, “Slow Me Down” in March. The title track is her new single and it became her 19th Top 40 hit on the Billboard Country chart.
Her first four singles generated buzz for Sara, but they failed to reach the Top 40. The second single from her second album was the one to do it. “No Place That Far” not only became her first Top 40 hit, it was also her first #1 song in 1999.
Of her 19 Top 40 country hits, nine have hit the Top Ten, and five, including, “No Place That Far” have topped the chart: “Born To Fly” (2001), “Suds In The Bucket” (2004), “A Real Fine Place To Start” (2005), and “A Little Bit Stronger” (2011).
I saw Sara in concert in August 2001 in Buffalo, New York, as part of Reba McEntire’s “Girls Night Out” tour that also featured Martina McBride, Jamie O’Neal, and Carolyn Dawn Johnson.
THAT’S IT FOR NOW
Be safe out there and enjoy your weekend. I know some of you read my random thoughts each Friday and some may have seen them for the first time today because of the snow forecast included in today’s blog. I appreciate it. Feel free to check back and see what I have to say.
UPDATE POST: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014, 4:17 p.m.
Based on the latest data coming in, we might be seeing more snow Friday and Saturday than earlier forecast!
A “Winter Storm Watch” goes into effect Friday evening through Saturday afternoon for moderate to heavy snow.
Here’s an updated snow forecast from the CBS4 in-house computer models and it looks pretty reasonable for what I’m thinking. It wouldn’t be out of the question that we could be adding another inch to these totals!
So, where I was forecasting 1-2″ this morning for Friday and Saturday, that’s now 2-4″. In the Quad Cities and along and just to the north and south of Interstate 80, that is now 4″+. And, the area where I had 4″+ this morning, that could easily be 6″+ now.
Be sure to join me bright and early Friday morning on “CBS4 News This Morning” from 5-7 a.m. for the very latest on this heavy snow event!
Fun times!
Anthony
ORIGINAL POST: THURSDAY, JANUARY 30, 2014, 8:10 a.m.
Three waves of snow are on the way to Iowa and Illinois through Saturday. Yes, it’s still winter.
The first round of light snow comes in today. Accumulations will be on the light side. I’m expecting an inch or less from the Quad Cities southward and maybe 1-2″ across the far north.
After a snow-free night tonight, more light snow develops during the day Friday. By evening, an inch or less will have accumulated.
However, heavier snow comes in Friday night and Saturday. Our southern hometowns have the best chance of picking up the most snow through Saturday.
Here is how much snow I think will fall Friday and Saturday.
There’s even more snow coming in early next week!
So far, in January, we’ve picked up 17.4″ officially in the Quad Cities.
That makes this the 8th snowiest January on record. And, with more snow coming in today and tomorrow, we’ll be rising higher on that list.
“Homeland” actor Damien Lewis is making nice after his derogatory comments about why he dropped out of theater early in his career.
Lewis didn’t want to become “one of these slightly over-the-top, fruity actors who would have an illustrious career on stage, but wouldn’t start getting any kind of film work until I was 50 and then start playing wizards.”
It doesn’t take a rocket scientist to figure out who he might have been talking about.
Out actor Sir Ian McKellen, who’s had a long career in theater and has found movie success in Peter Jackson’s “The Lord of the Rings” and “The Hobbit” trilogies shot back at Lewis.
McKellen says, “I wouldn’t like to have been one of those actors who hit stardom quite early on and expected it to continue and was stuck doing scripts that I didn’t particularly like just to keep the income up.”
He went on to say, “As for a fruity voice? Well, it may be a voice that is trained like an opera singer’s voice: to fill a large space. It is unnatural. Actors have to be heard and their voice may therefore develop a sonorous quality that they can’t quite get rid of, so you think actors are as pompous as their voice is large. I suppose Damian was thinking of that a little bit, too.”
Lewis apologized to Sir Ian saying, “I am hugely embarrassed that comments of mine have been linked in a negative way to Sir Ian McKellen. I have always been, and continue to be, an enormous fan and admirer of Sir Ian’s. He’s one of the greats and one of the reasons I became an actor. My comment in the Guardian was a soundbite I’ve been giving since 1999 – it was a generic analogy that was never intended to demean or describe anyone else’s career. I have contacted Sir Ian McKellen and have given him my sincerest apologies.”
And, this is how gracefully Sir Ian responded to the apology.
My final thoughts to Damien and to anyone reading this. I remember being a young gay man back in 1980s Kentucky and my cousin took my aunt to see The Judds in concert. She commented to my cousin that one of the band members was “a little fruity”.
That word was offensive then and it is now. I can excuse a woman who had not been around many gay people more than I can excuse an actor that is around fellow actors who are gay and use the word “fruity”.
Lewis claims that he’s used that soundbite since 1999! He should have been called out on it then. Now that it is public, just know that “fruity” is vulgar and offensive!
Anthony
Re-posted from “Random Friday Thoughts — December 20, 2013
Since a member of the “Duck Dynasty” Robertson family was in the news last night as a guest star of the Republican Party at President Obama’s “State of The Union” address, I should do my part to keep the coverage going. Recently, I started featuring some of my random thoughts that you may have missed on Fridays as stand alone entries.
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Last week, a can of worms about the First Amendment was opened when “Duck Dynasty” patriarch Phil Robertson made anti-gay comments to “GQ” magazine. It caused A&E to indefinitely suspend Robertson.
My comments today are not about that ordeal, but I’ll re-post the link if you want to read what I wrote about “Duck Dynasty”, being gay, and God last Friday. It was one of my most viewed blogs of the year!
In the dialogue following my blog and the fallout about the suspension, one woman started badgering me about the “gay lifestyle”.
I responded that being gay is not a “choice” or a “lifestyle”. As for “choice”, LGBT people don’t normally go around asking straight people when they “chose” to be straight.
And, being gay is just one facet of who I am. It’s my life and not a “lifestyle”, but she wouldn’t drop it and even posted a dictionary definition of “lifestyle” for me!
So, if you insist that being gay is a lifestyle, this pretty much sums it up.
Sound familiar?
Last Friday’s blog about the “Duck Dynasty” uproar:
Since I’ve blogged about Bristol Palin and her views before, here’s what she’s saying about “Duck Dynasty” and the LGBT community in her blog post, “Leave Phil Robertson Alone”.
“I think it’s so hypocritical how the LGBT community expects every single flippen person to agree with their life style. This flies in the face of what makes America great – people can have their own beliefs and own opinions and their own ways of life. Everyone needs to treat others like God would, with love. It goes both ways. I hate how the LGBT community says it’s all about ‘love’ and ‘equality.’ However, if you don’t agree with their lifestyle, they spread the most hate. It is so hypocritical it makes my stomach turn.”
ONE MORE PALIN RESPONSE
Another Robertson defender was Bristol’s mother, failed Alaska Governor and Vice President wannabe Sarah Palin.
Last week, Palin was defending Robertson on her Facebook page, “Free speech is an endangered species. Those ‘intolerants’ hatin and taking on the ‘Duck Dynasty’ patriarch for voicing his personal opinion are taking on all of us.” However, now she admits that she didn’t even read his comments to “GQ” magazine to even know what he said!
On Fox News Channel’s “On the Record with Greta Van Susteren”, when pressed about the graphic nature of Robertson’s comments, Palin admits, “I haven’t read the article … I don’t know exactly how he said it.”
I have one thing to say: read first before you spout off in his (or anyone’s) defense! But, then again, consider the source….
Anthony
Re-posted from “Random Friday Thoughts — December 27, 2013
Pop singer Ke$ha is known for her wild videos and stage antics. Her songs are fun and over the top, too. In her first hit, the #1 “Tik Tok”, she sings “before I leave, brush my teeth with a bottle of Jack”.
So, you might think her treatment has something to do with drugs and alcohol. However, it’s something different.
The 26-year-old pop star released a statement last weekend saying, “I’m a crusader for being yourself and loving yourself but I’ve found it hard to practice. I’ll be unavailable for the next 30 days, seeking treatment for my eating disorder…to learn to love myself again. exactly as I am.”
EATING DISORDERS AFFECT BOYS, TOO
Ke$ha, I wish you much success in what will be a daily struggle for the rest of your life. I know it’s something that she and the millions like her will fight each day.
When people think of eating disorders, anorexia and bulimia, most incorrectly believe it only affects females and Karen Carpenter’s name likely comes to mind.
However, it’s estimated that 10-15% of those affected by eating disorders are male.
I, too, am a recovering food addict. You’ll often hear me blog about eating healthy or walking on the treadmill. It’s not because I’m vain. It’s because I fight the food demon of overeating every day. A few pounds to the average person is a huge burden, a catalyst for insecurity, and a path for destruction to a food addict.
After nine years of being a practicing bulimic from 1986-1995, I’ve been on the wagon now for going on 19 years. Like an any other addict, recovery is a daily process.
It’s because of this that I blogged a couple of years ago about Adele’s weight.
It’s been my second most viewed blog since I posted it. I’m sharing it again to raise awareness of weight and eating disorders. I hope you check it out. Feel free to share it because it might save someone who needs to know they are not fighting this battle alone.
Kacey Musgraves wins big at the 56th annual Grammy Awards taking home trophies for Best Country Album for “Same Trailer Different Park” and Best Country Song for “Merry Go ‘Round”!
That album was one of my ten favorites of last year and her new song “Follow Your Arrow” was one of my ten favorite songs of the year.
I featured Kacey several times in my December blog, including this one about her and the man behind some of her biggest hits — a songwriter that also had fame on stage, too.
Congratulations Kacey and Shane!
From “Random Friday Thoughts — December 6, 2013
25-year-old Texan Shane McAnally was signed to Curb Records and released his first single, “Say Anything” in 1999, which peaked at #41. The follow-up single, “Are Your Eyes Still Blue” was his only Top 40 country hit, peaking at #31.
I loved both of those songs and I was probably one of the few people who took a chance on the newcomer and bought his debut and only album. After that, Shane dropped off the radar and moved to West Hollywood, California, and started bartending and performing as “Shane Mack”.
In California, Shane was able to be openly gay. Since he started living his life openly, he married his partner of six years, Michael Baum, in September 2012, and the couple welcomed a daughter and a son in December of last year.
I was pleasantly surprised this fall to see “Entertainment Weekly” give Shane the much overdue recognition that he deserves.
Shane returned to Nashville in a big way in 2008 as a co-writer of LeAnn Womack’s Top 15 hit, “Last Call”. Since then, he has written #1 songs for Kenny Chesney, Jake Owens, The Band Perry, Lady Antebellum, and Miranda Lambert. He also penned three songs for Reba McEntire’s 2010 album, “All The Women I Am” album.
And, this year, he co-produced my favorite country album 0f 2013, the #1 “Same Trailer Different Park” by Kacey Musgraves.
Shane, I wish you, Michael, and your children much happiness in 2014 and here’s to continued success in country music. I hope to hear more of your singing in the future, too.
PICK HIT
Earlier in the blog, I profiled Shane McAnally and mentioned that he co-produced Kacey Musgraves’ debut album.
He also co-wrote nine of the album’s twelve songs, including the first three singles: “Merry Go Round” (#14), “Blowin’ Smoke” (#31 peak), and her current single, “Follow Your Arrow”,which is at #28.
“SHELTER”
While I love “Dexter”, “The Walking Dead” and “American Horror Story”, love stories are at the top of my list, too. “Pretty Woman” (1990), “Latter Days” (2003), “Shelter” (2007), “Weekend” (2011), and “Out in the Dark” (2012) are the ones that I can watch over and over and over.
Shane Mack (Shane McAnally) performed five songs on the “Shelter” soundtrack and since I’m in Nashville and I’m a strong advocate for being out and proud, here’s another one from Shane.
Anthony
Re-posted from “Random Friday Thoughts — December 6, 2013
The big weather story over the next 72 hours will be the bitterly cold temperatures and dangerous, life-threatening wind chills. Blowing snow today could also be a problem, especially north of the Quad Cities.
Before we talk about the cold and the wind chills, let’s talk snow.
With the blowing wind, it was hard to get an accurate measurement of the snow Saturday night, but amounts were not as heavy as forecast with 3″ across the far north and lesser amounts to the south.
Even with the official 0.7″ of snow in the Quad Cities, it pushes us into the record books. This is now the 10th snowiest January on record in the metro area.
For the winter, the Quad Cities are now up to 31.6″ of snow.
That is our average snowfall for the season and without being a meteorologist, you know that we’ll be getting more snow this winter! Right now, we’re just about a foot of snow shy of this being one of the 25 snowiest winters on record in the Quad Cities.
Now, let’s talk wind, cold, and wind chills. Here are all of the advisories and warnings for Illinois and Iowa. Let me sort it out.
The fuchsia coloring over the Quad Cities, eastern Iowa, and northwestern Illinois is a “Winter Storm Warning” from 6 p.m. Sunday to 3 p.m. Monday for bitterly cold wind chills and blowing snow.
The red across central Iowa is a “Blizzard Warning” from noon Sunday to midnight for bitter cold wind chills and blowing snow causing white out conditions.
The blues are various warnings and advisories for wind chills and that gold-ish brown color in western Iowa is a “High Wind Warning”.
Temperatures tonight will drop to around -5° to -15°, but with the strong winds factored in, it’ll feel more like -20° to -40°.
Monday’s highs will stay below zero and Monday night’s lows will drop to around -15° to -20°, which would make it the coldest night this winter!
Slight improvement is on the way Tuesday. We might actually climb to near zero or above, especially in our southern hometowns. Meanwhile, the northern hometowns will stay below zero.
However, with winds of 20 to 40 miles-per-hour through Wednesday, wind chill factors will stay in the -20° to -40° range and even colder to the north.
We finally start climbing out of the “deep freeze” Wednesday with highs the rest of the week in the teens and 20s — above zero!
More light snow is possible later today, Thursday, and, again, next weekend.
This is a case of having the right to believe what you want, but not having the intelligence to filter your words.
Juan Carlos Galavis, the hunky star of ABC’s “The Bachelor”, may have shown his true colors last Friday night and then used the lame of excuse of claiming English is not his first language.
When asked whether there would ever be a bisexual or gay “bachelor”, he replied that he didn’t and “honestly, I don’t think it’s a good example for kids”. I can deal with that because, even though I disagree, that’s his opinion.
However, the media hungry reality star kept talking and this is what ticked me off. He added, “there’s this thing about gay people… it seems to me, and I don’t know if I’m mistaken or not… but they’re more ‘pervert’ in a sense. And to me the show would be too strong… too hard to watch.”
Excuse me, did you say “pervert”?
Well, it didn’t take long for Galavis to be contacted by ABC, the show’s producers, or his manager, because he issued this apology, “My vocabulary is not as broad as it is in Spanish and, because of this, sometimes I use the wrong words to express myself. What I meant to say was that gay people are more affectionate and intense and for a segment of the TV audience this would be too racy to accept… Once again, I’m sorry for how my words were taken. I would never disrespect anyone.”
Please don’t use language as your excuse for being close-minded!
Last August, Russian pole vaulter Yelena Isinbayeva made anti-gay comments and apologized by saying, “English is not my first language and I think I may have been misunderstood when I spoke yesterday.”
Just as I said back then, I don’t speak foreign languages as a second language, so if I’m going to make derogatory comments, “I’ll do it in English, a language I can fluently speak” to avoid “misunderstanding”!
Anthony
Re-posted from “Random Friday Thoughts — January 24, 2014
Fox’s “The Following” kicked off its second season last Sunday night and it was incredible. It also scored the highest ratings ever coming after the NFC Championship football game.
Creepy, murderous “followers” of serial killer Joe Carroll are still out to honor him and kill for him. However, now his loyal group has to contend with copycat groups hellbent on violence and they even have Carroll masks.
Emma, one of the Carroll’s followers and lovers from season one, is back and was rather subdued in the season two premiere. And, while I love the character, her punk look has to go!
My favorite new character in season two is Luke played by English actor Sam Underwood. You might remember him as the protegé of “Dexter” in the Showtime series’ final season.
Without giving away any real spoilers, Underwood was amazing and made creepy, sadistic, and sick look sexy. I’m sure we’ll be seeing a lot of Underwood in “The Following”. However, because no one is safe on this show, except maybe Kevin Bacon’s “Ryan Hardy”, I can’t say how long Underwood will be on the show. But, Emma survived all of last season!
If you missed the season two premiere, Fox is airing it again Monday night (January 27, 8 p.m. ET) before an all new episode.
Anthony
Re-posted from “Random Friday Thoughts — January 24, 2014
What's Peeps Thinking About Now? It's Probably Random! 