It looks like the dramas are feeling the effects of this long winter: everything is cold and dark:
“The Following” (Monday, 9 p.m., Fox)
If you didn’t catch the Season 2 premiere when it aired after last week’s Seahawks’ win, you can see it at 8 p.m. before the second episode launches Ryan’s (Kevin Bacon) newest case to obsess over. This gruesome series will air its 15-episode second season in consecutive weekly installments — forgoing those annoying mid-winter, one-third season finales that other shows rely on — so you can live out a fresh public-transit murder nightmare every week.
“American Horror Story: Coven” (Wednesday, 10 p.m., FX)
Mama is convinced that the only reason everyone is sticking around is to see how many twists and deadly turns this crazy witch train can take before it inevitably crashes and burns. Last week’s gift from Myrtle (Frances Conroy) to Zoe (Taissa Farmiga) that included tickets to Epcot means this increasingly nonsensical installment of the horror series is ending its story in the happiest place on earth.
“Black Sails” (Saturday, 9 p.m., Starz)
A pay cable channel would seemingly be the ideal place to host the filthiest of pirate tales. And while there is plenty of authentic-looking blood, gore and naked bodies to perpetuate the idea that this is a historically accurate account of the peg-leg legend, that rapscallion crew looks like they’ve spent more time getting their teeth whitened than darkening ports, and the clunky, obvious exposition makes Mama believe this stormy story could have made a modestly entertaining two-hour movie rather than the eight-episode drama it is.
“Being Human” (Monday, 9 p.m., Syfy)
The housemates each started out in bad places this season, and despite their belief that their situations are improving, all evidence proves to the contrary. Aidan’s (Sam Witwer) long-lost wife Suzanna (Katherine Isabelle) isn’t just the love of his life he thought he lost; she’s now a self-flagellating vamp trying to atone for killing Aidan’s only son. And Sally’s (Meaghan Rath) foray into witchcraft, which led to her saving werewolf Josh (Sam Huntington) from a permanent life on four legs, wasn’t as successful as his wife (Kristen Hager) might have hoped.