I echo this sentiment. Whenever I end my latest Freaks and Geeks rewatch, I don't feel the same "damn it, if only…" that I do with Firefly or the many other shows I loved that got cut down before their day. I just feel good.

Oh lord, the dating plan. More or less singlehandedly the reason that I consider Sports Night S1 to be the superior of the two, even with its awkward laugh track. Ok, that, and Jeremy dating a porn star.

Col. Alphonse Dore Cilburn CBE, taking idle chatter about pop culture on internet forums way, way, way, way too fucking seriously. Bravo.

I think that would be my exact list. Maybe I'd swap violin and angels.

I'm also coming at this from the place of kinda liking but not really loving anything Fuller until now. Which makes my adoration of Hannibal all the better a surprise.

I was too grossed out to keep watching the show after Adam's weird quasi-rape of Shiri Appleby, so I dunno how much I buy this whole "Girls is a feminist action" thing in the first place.

I actually think Tatiana Maslany might be able to portray eighteen different characters in one episode and have each performance be distinct. Oh, if only we could beam her back to 2009 to play Echo in Dollhouse.

It's pretty clear the critical acclaim/cult following is gonna have to save us on this one (aka we gotta pull a Fringe).

That promo was quite desperate, if not entirely incorrect.

Definitely, and it's gonna be awesome with a TV series building up to that moment. Can't wait.

But would Amazon or a basic cable network be able to supply the budget to keep the show looking like it looks? The show is such a work of art that I consider that a pretty damn important part of the overall experience. The best possible scenario would be if the threat of being picked up by another network strongarms…

I'll admit I'm more nervous than excited at this point. I won't really be shocked if it's not nearly as good as seasons 1-3. That said, seasons 1-3 are so phenomenal that it could be not nearly as good as them and still be my favorite TV comedy of 2013 (give or take a Bob's Burgers).

For some reason, I was getting Mrs. Coach flashbacks when Rayna was talking to Juliette before the funeral. Then I collapsed into a ball and wept for hours because I JUST MISS FRIDAY NIGHT LIGHTS SO MUCH

…I'll allow it.

Talented visual filmmaker. He also directed episode 11, according to IMDb, so I'll be excited to see what gorgouesly-lensed grotesques that episode holds. (He was also DP for the Twilight movies, haha. It's ok, his directing work on Hannibal is so good that can be overlooked.)

I read someone on a forum propose that Zeller (the bearded one) thinks he's in a CSI-type show. It's a characterization theory that has amused me watching the show since.

It definitely felt like the case-of-the-week had the writers start at the beginning with a crazy idea ("A corpse totem pole? Aw yeah, let's do it!") then lose interest as they went as the Abigail story was what really engaged them.

This show makes a lot of things that really, really shouldn't be beautiful beautiful: Cannibalistic food dishes, angel-people, corpse totem poles. It's a brilliant trick in the way it plays your artistic appreciation and morality against each other.

It's insanely good. If 2013 ended right now and I had to compile my top 10 shows of 2013 list, it would be no lower than #4, possibly as high as #2. Its cinematography rivals Breaking Bad, and its use of color has, as far as I'm concerned, no equal on TV right now.

It definitely wasn't out of sequence, because Hannibal's fight with/killing of Tobias the string instruments expert last week was explicitly mentioned. The show hasn't focused on Abigail lately, though she did have a major focus in the episode that got pulled in America (and isn't on Hulu, but IS on iTunes for sale……