Meloni ain't worth the steam off Hauer's piss.

True Blood has managed the impossible: made Rutgur Hauer incredibly bland. And yet the show will still miss his presence after wasting him in a (relatively) inconsequential role.

If anyone wants to hear a 'comedy' podcast from a short 'comedian' obviously overcompensating, they should check out this bizzare entry.

To the avclub member who tried to convince us that the entire season was filtered through Don's coma state: fuck off idiot! 

Awesome show,  thanks for recommending it.

I'm not claiming that the show glorifies murder or is trying to make the audience sympathetic to its displays of horror.

It's a different show in the third season, and you have to remember context: Millennium was literally ahead of its time. It had the same kind of effect on me way back then that Hannibal has on me now.

Well, of course its doing it on purpose - and I fail to see the moral difference (see below for an example).

While this is a fine article, I take issue with the way it talks around the corpse in the room: the show is guilty of aestheticizing murder. Hannibal (the tv show) turns murder into a form of installation art and reduces it to spectacle. It therefore has the effect of making the horrifying look awesome or beautiful.

I definitely agree. Hannibal is really the spiritual successor to Millennium, and I'm often reminded of the latter while watching the former. 

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The joke is on all those fans who kept watching season 4 regardless.

Wtf? No mention of rutger hauer? or the hitcher reference?

Perhaps that's because all the money goes behind the scenes.

I couldn't watch this episode. Not because I doubt that it might have its basis in reality or that the Rescue Me writer was catering to male fantasies and/or anxieties again.

this is very impressive…but  the Crawford conversation *seems* to negate your first evidential claim. How would you explain that, other than to suggest that we're watching hannibal hallucinate?

If we didn't know that Hannibal had (other) designs on Will, would we assume that he was gay?

I'm not sure who gave the funnier performance: the stuffed dog or Vera Farmiga.

The dog was asking for it.

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