Eu sei que muitos dos comentários já discutem isso, mas isso realmente parece ser um caso de design de programa ruim. Escolha qualquer filme discutindo o site on-line e você poderá ver pessoas refletindo suas opiniões:
IMDB :
...if any government department in any country ran anything remotely as incompetently as these guys do in "The Following" then we are seriously, seriously doomed.
And then they escape because the FBI or the Police were looking the other way at the critical moment.
...Joe's escape from jail was the final straw. The premise to be moved to another jail is bizarre and if that's not bad enough then prison officials, FBI agents and Federal marshals all manage not to be able to put one prisoner in the back of a transport truck and move him. But he then gets magically in the trunk of his lawyer's car and escapes. We all have different tastes in shows but I find it baffling that anyone could find this show even remotely watchable because it's so insulting to the viewers.
De Digital Spy , que notou a falta de um registro de prisão de qualquer tipo:
...There's Ryan's slipper snake ex Molly (Jennifer Ferrin) - who's now one of Joe's followers. A self-styled 'Angel of Death', Molly has it in for Hardy and first met Carroll - you guessed it - in prison. Seriously, Feds, check that visitor log.
E, finalmente, um discurso bastante divertido sobre Time Entertainment . Algumas das citações de escolha deste artigo:
Então, efetivamente, a resposta para sua pergunta parece ser porque o FBI, por decisão dos criadores do programa, é um completo idiota - algo que muitas pessoas on-line notaram e ficaram irritadas com isso.The good guys are apparently idiots.
At first, I was okay with this. I could accept that law-enforcement might be fallible; otherwise, the show would be an hour of Kevin Bacon’s former FBI agent Ryan Hardy talking to James Purefoy’s creepy-yet-charming psychopath Joe Carroll, explaining that there was no way that an imprisoned serial killer would’ve been able to use the Internet to set up thousands of websites to gain acolytes without everyone in the prison knowing about it (and logging the IP addresses of those visiting the sites).
...The problem with The Following is that these moments of idiocy are not few and far between. In fact, as Vulture pointed out earlier this week, every single episode of the show has asked us to believe that the FBI agents hunting the serial killing cult have made at least one fatal, and often ridiculous, error in judgment or procedure that prevents them from catching the bad guys...