How many eps is this initial run?  Meaning, how much more new Hannibal do I have to look forward to?

"it's the only one that qualifies as art."

Man, do I miss MYOF. 

Really?  I am totally looking forward to seeing this on an international flight!

Non-Ellen thread :)

I am with you on this.  For me the turning point was the tax storyline - not just not paying her taxes but her completely selfish attitude about WHY ME! that then extended to sleeping with her brother-in-law.  The flippancy with which she discusses this with Barbara later is off-putting as well.

I have a separate comment about Ellen, but I can understand how a character  seems one way to the writers , but  that viewers coming to the show with different life experiences will interpret that character completely differently.  The same character traits that are endearing to some are infuriating or off-putting to…

I think one of the reasons Ellen was such a frustrating character for me is that she reminds me of a friend who is charming, beautiful, universally loved by all who meet her, yet is completely infuriating in her lack of responsibility and general "grown-up-ness".  The kind of person who just never gets around to…

Is it on ABC?  If so, I bet someone got a huge promotion for coming up with the tag:  Watch the ABC on ABC!

Damn, I really have to get a smartphone.  Stupid Blackberry!

@avclub-6b160289536b8a7a7a2c161a02014e7c:disqus well, in my field of science "cis" means same or next to, whereas "trans" means across from, so those have a less judgmental connotation in this context.

In middle school I was always the girl who stood up and there was blood on the chair.  Why was my period so heavy when I was 12?? By the time I took my SAT I wasn't even having it anymore (very weird, I know - I started again after college). 

@avclub-6a2ec3076bb494e5c64eb1a422d9fe3d:disqus Dracula was surprisingly boring.  I have read about a third of The Monk and it is in fact pretty bizarre.   It think I had to stop reading it because the crappy printing in my book was giving me a headache, but I may pick it back up on my Kindle.

You sure are!  I read Wuthering Heights a few years ago for the first time and started to realize a big gap in my classic lit reading.

The quality varies - I think when this started a few months back, the quality was really poor, and there was this commenter called Sweet Clam who used to go off on it and Amelie and people used to comment on her rants and then it just exploded from there.

Not wanting to be the rebound makes sense, but I still think there had to have been a better way to approach it.

You know - I never watched The West Wing, but everyone I know loves it.  I can only imagine what Sorkin does with an "honorable prostitute" storyline.  Is it totally condescending?  I bet it is :)

I'm with you that this is more of a message to "believers' than to "non-believers".  Of course, in my experience, the evangelical protestants are the worst offenders in thinking that people are going to hell.  Any argument that "the Pope thinks I'm going to Heaven" isn't going to hold much weight :)

I read all of The Golden Compass assuming that Svalbard was a made-up place, but nope, it's on the map.

Castle of Otranto is the first in an anthology (well, 5 books bound together) I own that includes Dracula and Frankenstein.  I've always meant to read it, and so admire your dedication, person who is not Elizabeth Olsen.