THE FOLLOWING: "Mad Love" S1E4 (review)

By Steve Ahlquist

The weird serial killer trinity of Jacob (Nico Tortorella), Paul(Adan Canto) and Emma (Valorie Curry) gets weirder this episode. Jacob and Paul, you might remember, spent three years pretending to be gay as part of Joe Carroll (James Purefoy)'s big plan, only, as we found out last episode, they weren't always pretending. Emma and Jacob are in love, and Paul loves Jacob too, only Paul hates Emma.


The love triangle went bad when Paul went out and kidnapped Meghan (Li Jun Li), a nice Asian girl with bad taste in men. Paul brings Meghan home and ties her up in the basement. Emma doesn't want Joey Jr. (Kyle Catlett) to find her, so she tells Paul to kill her and dump the body. Paul tells Jacob to do it. That's when we learn that Jacob has never killed anybody before! He's a serial killer wannabe.


Unable to kill Megan, Jacob lets her go. Emma and Paul hunt Megan down, stab her a bit ("It's only a flesh wound!" says Emma, inadvertently quoting Python) and tie her up in the basement together. Hunting Megan allows Emma and Paul to bond, and when Jacob tearfully apologizes for being afraid, their mutual love of him brings Emma to say, "We're not giving up on you." The three hug in the shower, with their clothes on.

I'm not making this up.

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