I object to the idea that Alana is useless, let alone Freddie. Neither one is. Samatict sums up Freddie better than I could, but Alana is a goddamn comfort to see on this show whenever she's on screen. This show is so brutal, so unforgiving of the audience at times, and so full of legitimately crazy characters…

Various notes and thoughts-

"No Alana this week. Did anyone miss her? Not particularly. They have to start giving her a reason to exist at some point."

"Hannibal" has stylized enough a universe and such strong characters that one can forgive minor forays against logic when they serve an otherwise effective story. Fans of this show (myself included) have accepted Will's abilities from the first episode even though they are more or less akin to a superpower. This is a…

I think there's a little missing the forest for the trees here with harping on Georgia's abilities to avoid detection. This episode of Hannibal was like a great horror film. Horror is, for the most part, a deeply illogical genre. Most horror films, even great ones, require at least some suspension of disbelief. Horror…

This was the episode when Stan's beard finally gained sentience over his brain. Stan's glorious beard is going to start having its own storylines soon. If we're lucky, we'll even get a flashback to the day a beardless Stan picked up his razor, looked in the mirror, and then put it back down.

I love that this show managed to work in a visual homage to "Cannibal Holocaust". Via cello, no less.

I'm not usually one to complain about the grades, but this was easily my favorite episode of this season, and it left me with much the same feeling of some of my favorite episodes of past seasons.

It took me a few moments to realize that Alisdair thought that boy band jokes were outdated by a decade. As someone with three younger sisters, I'm close to certain that there will never be more than a five year dry spell without a popular boy band.

Breakfast with Jerry's family got surreal very quickly.

I'm glad they finally fixed the camera they were using to film Brenda's confessionals.

@avclub-2bf7bb353a1107a5d5c41d1ff4c624cb:disqus Any shred of not hating Reynold that I had disappeared with his "Hope's gone so there's no one to fuck anyway" comment from last week's episode. He's as repellent as they come this season.

"If you want 'reliably warm and funny' go have an ovaltine enema. This is TV comedy for grown-ups."

The idea that someone watches this show with any regularity while hating Leslie Knope and her niceness is one of the most incomprehensibly puzzling things I have ever encountered in my time on this planet.

Count me as surprised. I enjoyed it too, more than any other this season. I'm used to coming here after disliking an episode (this season) and being surprised at the positive reviews. I guess it's one of those inverse days.

Huh. I'm kind of surprised by the overwhelming negativity towards this episode. As someone who has disliked most of what this season has offered, I greatly enjoyed this episode. Annie's quip about letting Cornwallis rub her feet. Ugh. Annie has been thrown under the bus this season.

"What makes Hannibal unique is how much of Stammetz’s apprehension is glossed over. "

Lest we forget, a B+ is not a bad score! I think a few too many fans of this show want it to be graded on an A to A-minus scale. :)

"Wolf Man, Bare Chest". This show's little throwaway jokes are one if its greatest joys.

There are times when I think Hynden Walch is the best voice actor in Adventure Time's extraordinary cast. This episode was one of those times. Kudos to David O'Reilly for mining PB's persona for some great laughs in this episode. Her deadpan poking the Ice King with a stick, shooting him with horse tranquilizers, and…