Joe Carroll wants you to watch The Following
Here’s what’s up in the world of TV for Monday, January 27. All times are Eastern.
TOP PICK
The Following (Fox, 9 p.m.): Joe Carroll is alive, and as you can see from the above picture, his facial expression communicates a nuanced emotion called “blarrgghghlllleee”! Tonight, The Following moves to its regular time slot. Joe Carroll is rakishly holding a kitchen knife and hoping that you watch his inevitable rise to power (again). We hope you join his serial-killing cult like he wants you to. Otherwise he’ll serial-kill more people! But wait! If you join it, you’ll serial-kill, too! Is there no end to this madness? Why is Joe Carroll holding a bloody towel? Who did he kill this time? Is it… Edgar Allan Poe?!?! David Sims INVESTIGATES.
ALSO NOTED
Adventure Time (Cartoon Network, 7 p.m.): Finn battles an old gumball robot named Rattleballs, and discovers he’s not the master swordsman he thought he was. This is a tough realization for Oliver Sava, who put Finn in his fantasy swordsman league. But no matter, because Rainn Wilson guest-stars in tonight’s episode, and we hear he is pretty good with a katana.
How I Met Your Mother (CBS, 8 p.m.): In the series’ 200th episode, How I Met Your Mother looks back at what on earth The Mother was doing for the last eight seasons. Donna Bowman hopes there is a Q&A afterwards, because she has a lot of questions.
Archer (FX, 10 p.m.): Pam makes a deal with the Yakuza, which goes south, naturally. Malory wouldn’t mind throwing her to the wolves, but Archer and Todd VanDerWerff have an elaborate plan to save the day.
REGULAR COVERAGE
Regular Show (Cartoon Network, 7:30 p.m.)
Switched At Birth (ABC Family, 9 p.m.)
Mom (CBS, 9:30 p.m.)
Teen Wolf (MTV, 10 p.m.)
The Blacklist (NBC, 10 p.m.)
Rick And Morty (Adult Swim, 10:30 p.m.)
ALSO ON TV CLUB
Phil Dyess-Nugent reviewed HBO’s new documentary on Herbert Block, better known as Herblock: “From his perch at the Washington Post, which he held onto from his discharge from the U. S. Army in 1956 until his death in the fall of 2001, Herblock created and sustained a sort of perfect image of the ideal op-ed cartoonist: Intelligent and sane with no ax to grind.”