did anybody else find it striking that will, by deciding to force hannibal back into the role of his psychiatrist (or simply deciding to accept hannibal's still-open offer, depending on who you think's playing whom at this point) is mirroring the dynamic between hannibal himself and dr. du maurier?

I totally agree.  Sad Kathryn, Empty Daphne, Bangs Bay, and Dead Regina were just for this episode, but Evil John is forever.

the slam poet is an actual slam poet from the SF area! a longer version of the piece he uses in the episode is here: http://www.upworthy.com/15-…

@avclub-3f2263ada00cf404ac8d4b205f830508:disqus — I totally agree with you; John drives me up a wall (to the point where I may have yelled "You want me to CARE?!? I don't care! I hope he DIES!") at my TV as this episode ended. The real reason I was so spiteful, though, is that this episode employed one of my least…

I think there's a difference between being "primarily about the romantic lives of women" in the "tired, typical" way you're alluding to— i.e. deriving soapy sweeps-week drama from sex and relationship updates to the exclusion of pretty much anything else— and what happens on Grey's Anatomy.  As VDW points out above,…

thanks so much for the goodnight wishes!

I'm obviously a giant pathetic nerd for taking issue with this, but there's diegetic music in the film that was definitely not out in 2008 and this drove me absolutely batty.  If you're gonna make a film about real events (especially one that is ostensibly offering commentary on the culture of the time), and have the…

hi av club powers that be, this is kind of important: