Yes, I figured the systems are somewhat different. 
In Germany, psychiatrists cannot perform therapy. They can only diagnose and prescribe medication. While there is of course the advantage of also being a medical doctor - which entails some prestige -, psychologists are far more specialized (this from my limited…

Well, icy doesn't quite seem to fit because it felt a little more ambiguous than that - the way she greeted him at the door and the "you're not my friend" seemed cold to me, while in-between, there was some warmth in her eyes. I thought there was a compelling conflict there in her behaviour, and Anderson really…

Thanks for clarifying! Well, it is a TV show, so I won't expect an accurate portrayal of the work of an US psychotherapist. ;)

Nicely put. Probably not my exact reasons to love this piece to death, I just enjoy to get submerged in it. I'm not really a Mozart expert, to be honest. Of course, there is also always the nasty controversy as to what exactly was written by Mozart himself and what was added by Süßmayr…
I remember that it was also…

Well, here are my random thoughts.

I discussed this with my father, who is an avid wine drinker and also knowledgeable on that topic, and he said that pink wine is no longer viewed as a "step-child" and that it can be pretty elegant and expensive, too (I actually once drank a glass of one that costs 83 € per bottle, the most expensive wine I've ever…

Yeah, regarding Franklin and Tobias, I got a really weird vibe from them… At first I thought they were a couple and that Tobias was jealous. But then he was introduced as his friend… I somehow had the feeling that Tobias was going to be eaten, especially after Hannibal gave him that look and then turned and asked…

The song when Hannibal opens the door is Lacrimosa (also called Lacrimosa dies illa), from the Sequentia section of Mozart's Requiem. I recognized it immediately because, as weird as this may sound, it's one of my favourite songs. It's also listed among Fuller's tweets. This is a bit different version: http://www.youtu…

"Mother, I think it's time we got into yarn."
This exchange made me smile and chuckle (the Rectify equivalent of cracking up). I loved this whole scene and the interaction between mother and son, especially since she seemed a bit distant before. I don't know, I can't really describe, but everything about this show is…

Are you sure, though? Who knows what's real and what isn't on Glee, a show that seems to exist either in a parallel universe with a different calendar than us for stuff like, I don't know, annual competitions and college applications, or in spacetime or whatever.

Well, I am certainly not happy to have hated this episode. I loved this show way, way early in the first season, and had high hopes in it. So to see it waste its potential was bad enough, but the increasingly ludicrous plot twists make it even worse.
I'm not someone who likes to bash TV, films or books and gets a kick…

Oh God, I can't even. What a waste of an episode. It wasn't just cheap, manipulative and weird in how unsettling it was - not because of poor Kyle's death, but how every character made it about himself and was somehow deeply connected to Kyle all of a sudden -, it was also boring as hell. 
It's like Glee with the…

Thank you, and yes, it really does.
I think the AV Club is pretty much the only site in the whole universe I can think of where people don't freak out over some criticism and start bashing others but instead actually respect other people's opinions and value their thoughts. So that certainly helped to have at the back…

I wouldn't quite put it as harshly, but I  agree that she does nothing for me. She's like the only graduate who has actually almost completed faded into obscurity in my mind and of whom I think when they appear on the episode, then I'm like, "Oh right! She used to be on Glee!". I recently re-watched a season 2…

Quite possibly. Of course, it would also mean that it's either a somewhat simulated documentary where Sutton Foster pretends to be a real-life person named Michelle Sims and, posing as her, chronicles the lives of the people of Paradise, Calif., all the while letting us see them through her eyes. Or she suffers from…

Glee is starting to piss me of more with every episode.

Why, oh why, did they have to mention Bunheads? Hearing the name makes my heart ache! Are they writers trying to murder me (and many others, I assume) by not just writing their episodes on napkins each week, but by name-dropping this far superior, beloved show that is in danger of being canceled while this gets two…

I was wrecked by this episode - for me, the eyeball-gouging was by far the most disturbing thing on this show, and it's not like the skinned angels last weak weren't gross. But this was the first time I was squirming and had to turn my head. Little did I know that it, while not getting worse, would certainly not get…

With all the possible cancellation talk, I wonder, couldn't Hannibal's status as an international production help? Since it's already being aired in many countries with more to follow, I wonder whether it could be renewed because of that. Didn't that happen to Baywatch because it was successful in Europe? I'm aware…

I agree with you regarding the banned episode, it would also rank it lowest. The case was in itself compelling, but didn't get a lot of screen time and thus fell a bit short for me. But the episode did have the tea equivalent to episode 2's weird-yet-lovely coffee close-up!