Kevin Williamson is no stranger to defending his work. At the Television Critics Association tour this summer, the creator of The Following and CBS’ new thriller Stalker raised eyebrows by encouraging a critic to just “change the channel” if he didn’t like what he was seeing on screen. (“I think some people are still kind of raw over The Following,” Williamson admitted to TVGuide.com after the panel. “They’re fair questions.”)
And there’s no question that Stalker won’t be for everybody. Accusations of excess violence and even misogyny have been leveled at Williamson based on the pilot, whose opening sequence shows a woman screaming as she getting burned alive in her car. But he insists that Stalker is not as violent as The Following, and appeals to a different sense of fear.
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