The sound design in that scene—so briliant. I just rewatched it. When you come back to shot in the girl in white, before she's killed, you first hear a very faint song of some sort, a normal, cheerful melody, like she might have heard at her prom or wherever she was come from. That is soon distorted by the Grinding…

A few things struck me on rewatching this episode: the little lick of the lips that Hannibal makes when Will admits he loves feeling the power of killing. That little lick was freaking TERRIFYING. How Mads makes one teeny gesture more terrifying than the entire freaking episode, I'll never know, but it was super…

I don't think Hannibal ever made good on his threat to Freddie, perhaps because she's useful to him. We really haven't seen her talking about him as a suspect—she's been focused on Will. I could be wrong about the editing fake-out. I watched it again and it does seem Freddie is telling Alana that, not talking about…

Oh, I'm not saying she's not going to discover him. Obviously she is. But she must see or find out something definite for her to suspect him, because she's been blind to his faults thus far. It just seems like it's a leap for her to be that way this soon.

I call "edit fake out" on the preview next week that looks like Alana is getting suspicious of Hannibal. Freddie talks about to beat Hannibal, you have to join him. But I bet they're talking about Will doing that. Does Freddie suspect Hannibal? I don't know that we've really seen that. And I think it would be too…

This is all Will's design. That's why he is in charge of the Ravenstag now. But that doesn't mean he doesn't genuinely enjoy killing killers, or that Hannibal can't still mess with his head. That's the risk he's taking. To catch a killer, do you have to become one—in which case, Hannibal will have won.

I thought that was a simple editing technique, but really clever. Because it just filled me with dread for her. The part I thought was cheesy was when antlered Will in his imaginings comes up from killing her and gives that bloodied, maniacal smile. That was a little too "The Shining" for me. The rest of the epi,…

I love the Ravenstag and was missing him, so I was glad to see him—and the Wendigo—all in one scene. Your interpretation is interesting. I also think that the Ravenstag represents the dark side of Will that is like Hannibal, the side of Will that enjoys killing, and that he is in constant struggle with. But now,…

I'm laughing because when I try to describe this show to someone who has never seen it—they're like oh my god—that's insane. And they start slowing edging away from me, kinda like Bedelia did from Hannibal in that scene when she resigned as his therapist. As you say, you have to accept the baseline insanity of this…

THANK YOU! How can people say nothing happened or that this epi was weak? Holy crap—we saw Will starting to go over to the dark side, but are still unsure whether it's his design for catching Hannibal, or if he really enjoys killing, or both. We saw how Hannibal recruits his patients, and finally started to get…

I don't like the action-packed episodes as much. They bore me. I like the cat and mouse, the psychological and philosophical stuff, and the relationships between the characters. So I LOVED this episode. I thought it was one of the best yet.

I also think the constant asking of "How does that make you feel" is a wink to that oft-used cliche line of all film and television shrinks. These writers are too savvy to not know how cliched that line is, so I think they're doing it on purpose.

It's called Vide Cor Meum by Patrick Cassidy. Based on Dante's Inferno, and I guess it was originally the music for the :Hannibal" movie. You can catch a beautiful version of it on Youtube, set to photos of Florence and Venice. There is also a site that lists all the music from Hannibal, and you can probably hear it…

I don't find that this episode was any more violent than others. And it is all in service to the plot. To judge the entire episode just on those few scenes—the rest of the episode, with the cat and mouse between Hannibal and Will was some of the best stuff we've seen yet.

I'd say it's Mikkelsen. I doubt that Fuller has to direct him much. I'm sure he just lets him go and watches him do his thing. Mads is one of the greatest actors working right now, after all. And I've seen a lot of his films—he's a master of silence and using the microexpression to say more than pages of dialogue ever…

Wow. I am amazed people thought this episode was weak. That first scene was genius, with Will whistling for the Ravenstag to do his bidding. It showed the evolution of Will as killer—which is a game he's playing to capture Hannibal, or is he? And it just was intellectually so much more thought-provoking than some of…

Most. Brilliant. Show. Ever. This episode is, imo, one of the best. It's gotten away from over the top plot twists and gore back to what makes it great—the quiet moments between the characters, the intellectual questions about good and evil, and to the relationship between Hannibal and Will. And Will bringing…

I never catch everything the first time around with this show because it gives me ADHD with all the sensory overload. First time I see an episode, I am too busy trying to process things like "Did I just see a body come out of that horse?" or, "OMG. All those bodies stitched together are really the pupil of an eye?…

LOL. I love how the killer rears back from touching her during his interview, and Hannibal notes not wanting to be touched is typical psychopath behavior. That was the ol' sledgehammer of irony reminding us that he is an atypical psychopath, seeing as how he has no problem touching her and clearly enjoys it.

What the hell kinda lenses are the DPs using on this show? I noticed it especially in the bed scene with Hannibal and Alana—how wide and distorted their faces look. I wouldn't mind so much, except that my future fiancee Mads is so much more slim and handsome and younger-looking in reality. He looks so waxy and heavy…