When Beverly Katz explored the cellar of Hannibal's house, right before she turned to see him, she gasped at the sight of SOMETHING straight before her. Could this have been Abigail in storage?

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Angie was jealous of Sarah when Sarah was Beth. She was vicious by taking such pleasure in her withholding things from Art to advance her status (she wanted to be Art's partner, not Sarah) way back when Sarah was still impersonating Beth. And she has never bothered to find out why Beth killed herself rather than go…

Nonononono! to #8. I do not want Angie anywhere near Alison, or anyone in OBLand. Angie is jealous, vicious toxic waste Feh!

No, in two bites. And it should be noted that my first line read "many
years ago. 40 years, to be exact, well before they were on the
endangered list. It was served at a Belle Epoque dinner and all of the
dishes were from that era. No guilt, no disgust, no present=day
squeamishness and of course no Hannibal…

AW, if you are still there, please consider revivng this for the third season, just started. It's getting very complicated, needful of the AVC enlightenment

but actually I have eaten ortolan in France, years ago. It was not served with the eyes and fuzz, as is Hannibal's. It was was roasted and browned like a quail, and eaten with a napkin draped over the diner's head. This was explained not to hide from God but to preserve the delicate but evanescent fragrance, and…

The casting of even the briefest roles is really fantastic. Aunt Helen was played by Kathleen Chalfont, one of the best character actors this country has. She does mostly theater work —- I first saw her in Angels in America — but every time she appears on episodic TV, even in a soap, she elevates it.

A new season and my same old plaint: Todd, you write so well, why can't you learn the usage for me/i? It is Genevieve and me, not Genevieve and I. Please look it up on Strunk.

Nice little call-out to Dollhouse in the Tahiti flashback: Coulson asks masseuse if he fell asleep. She replies, "For a little while."

Burke lives in Queens, right? Isn't that a little outside Neal's permissible radius? How does he just turn up without being nabbed?