Happens in the first five minutes. Was in the next week on. Not a spoiler. x6

Happens in the first five minutes. Was in the next week on. Not a spoiler. x5

Happens in the first five minutes. Was in the next week on. Not a spoiler. x4

So far as I can tell, that's exactly the headline it's always been. And I'm the only one up, and I didn't change it. So… I don't think it's changed?

1.) I mostly liked it. But it was messy in places, for sure. It was the kind of messy the show needed to get out of its system, I think.

Mad Men didn't make my top 10 last year. And I think splitting the season in two was pretty boneheaded.

Thank you!

1.) Red
2.) I have never thought about this. Circle?
3.) Polka dots?
4.) Advanced D&D
5.) Deadwood/The Simpsons
6.) Jose Chung's From OUter Space
7.) It's A Wonderful LIfe
8.) Preston Sturges
9.) Thunder Road
10.) Pet Sounds
11.) The Beatles (boring)
12.) The Great Gatsby

I wrote all of those headlines (and this one).

As a critic, I do not consider something that happens five minutes into the episode a spoiler. It is necessary to discuss to lay the groundwork for what happens. If you consider any information on any plot point whatsoever a spoiler, then, sure, I guess that's a spoiler. But considering this entire episode is about…

By "benefit of the doubt," I mean that you assume that we're talking about something that happens early on in the episode, not that we're spoiling the climax or something.

I've heard a LOT of people saying S3 > S2, and Sonia actually prefers it to both of the first two seasons. So I might be an outlier on this. I also found episode eight of this season of Hannibal really weak, but everybody else thought it was brilliant.

No worries. I apologize for my earlier spoiler in comments.

Exactly. You can't protect everybody all of the time. Our aim is to protect the 90% of readers who are keeping up with a show by watching it within seven days of air, but maybe aren't watching it right away. This headline is not a spoiler for those people. You can't account for everybody who might possibly read…

I am philosophically opposed to an anti-spoiler culture that makes discussing episodes like this all but impossible short of the most generic of word choices. Particularly since this headline is carefully constructed to send people in one direction when they should be headed in another. Just like the episode.

That would be a terrible headline. There is a definite relationship between the headline and how many people read the article, and something that generic would not cause anyone to click on this. Particularly because the episode titles are in Japanese.

That would not be read.

I didn't really care about never getting to see Jeff teach. I didn't think that was a particularly rich source of storylines, as every series ever to be about teachers would suggest.

Britta.

I forgot Girls and Archer, both of which would also be in contention. I want to marathon this season of Girls, because I think it will play much better that way. Week to week, I really found it the weakest season yet, but there's a throughline there that's less obvious in that form as well.