A buzzfeed article negatively commenting on the negativity surrounding the show's return

Sorry Douay. I thought I was responding to Snidely's post.

You sound like an unemployed - and unemployable - academic.

I'd consider continuing to watch the show: it has some interesting things to say about sexual politics through Gillian's character (including the erotisation of female victim's deaths).

This episode was way too sitcomy for my liking, and the editing that kept drawing attention to the 'punchline' only undermined the 'joke'.

As much as I love this show - and look forward to the latest death tableaux - the totem pole verged on self parody.

I haven't read the books - which is why I'm asking.

It's interesting that many of us appear to have forgotten the season's opener featuring a near death experience and an explicit reference to a living hell. Actually, I'm sure we all remember…but have somehow taken the explanation (it was the doorman lying on the ground) at face value.

Where do you find the time to watch so many tv shows, write long reviews about them, read the comments on *other people's* reviews, and add your own comments too?

To those that have read the novels: what do you make of the conflicting 'prophesies'?

I wouldn't have minded the 'weirdness' so much if it wasn't grounded in third rate intelligibility: Don and his 'mommy' issues.

Nah, you need more comedy. try sniffing some out.

If the comments are any indication, it looks as if interest in the show has already tapered off.

You need to get out more Snidely.

I also thought there was a subtext to their exchange.

Anyone else think that Dr. Du Maurier suspects what Hannibal is? She seems to have wanted to maintain contact with him despite herself, knows something is amiss him, simply doesn't trust him….and yet curiosity has gotten the better of her anyway.

Maybe I'm just a critical viewer or an inquiring mind.

I'm not sure how to interpret that opening scene, and was surprised by the ease in which it was interpreted here.

Isn't Martin guilty of colonialism though? Why, for example, is Westeros perceived as the jewel in the crown or the East a dress rehearsal for the real thing?

I'm just questioning Maritn's rationale…cause it seems as if he is showing his hand here (as opposed to just letting the rivalries and ideologies fight amongst themselves to determine the moral outcome).