Season 2 of "The Following" feels like a completely new show compared to Season 1, and a lot of that is thanks to Joe Carroll's (James Purefoy) absence from the action. While everyone (except for Ryan Hardy [Kevin Bacon] and a select few followers) thinks Joe is dead, he's actually just been in hiding for the past year.
"He's just been being very quiet because that's what he needed to do," Purefoy tells Zap2it. "He really needed to melt away which is why nobody knows that he's alive apart from these two, Mandy [Tiffany Boone] and her mother [Carrie Preston]. I think that's pretty sensible, when you've been Joe Carroll you really need anonymity."
Purefoy reveals that Joe hasn't been up to anything in the past year. He really has been laying low, with nothing but his own thoughts to keep him company. "He's just been quietly living there, contemplating what his future is, contemplating the failures of his past and what he's going to do next," Purefoy says. "He's realizing that he's no writer, he's no father and he's no husband, but he is a very good teacher and he's a very good killer. So how is he going to put those two things into play?"
"He's just been being very quiet because that's what he needed to do," Purefoy tells Zap2it. "He really needed to melt away which is why nobody knows that he's alive apart from these two, Mandy [Tiffany Boone] and her mother [Carrie Preston]. I think that's pretty sensible, when you've been Joe Carroll you really need anonymity."
Purefoy reveals that Joe hasn't been up to anything in the past year. He really has been laying low, with nothing but his own thoughts to keep him company. "He's just been quietly living there, contemplating what his future is, contemplating the failures of his past and what he's going to do next," Purefoy says. "He's realizing that he's no writer, he's no father and he's no husband, but he is a very good teacher and he's a very good killer. So how is he going to put those two things into play?"
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