[insert "nope nope nope" octopus here]

I can see that. To be fair, though, he did something similar with Will in Red Dragon.

Aw, really? I love SotL-era Crawford.

And Scandal. Actually Scandal's gore bothers me more, because it jars with the tone of the rest of the show.

It's fascinating that people keep saying the show gets low ratings because it's too violent while in the same breath praising Game of Thrones and The Walking Dead. See the comments under the Hulu Best in Show poll for examples.

Good reasons to hope for sure. It's just that my mind automatically goes to the worst case scenario. Side effect of being a space Jew.

I just realized I rhymed three times. Go me?

Ratings update. This week we're at 0.8. Not great. Apparently Dateline's a better lead-in for Hannibal than Grimm. Who'da thought?

I like the way you think.

"I think Hannibal's starting to realize that there's no way he can ever make Will his friend"

I believe he said for two of them we would see the sexy bits but for the other we would only see the post-coital snuggling. I guess tonight was the snuggling one? We didn't see much.

I don't know, he is a sensualist. But yeah, his banging Alana was surely part of his plan to get an alibi and get back at Will for trying to off him. As for why Alana didn't realize she was being manipulated, well. This version of Hannibal Lecter is played by Mads Mikkelson. And he is a master of manipulation,…

Exactly my thought.

If I ever woke up as a donut, yeah, I wouldn't even question it.

Because he's not an asshole boom nailed it

Fuck you, harpsichord!

Agreed. I'm also hoping for Freddie/Wendy, although they might be saving that for a later season.

IN

THAT NEVER HAPPENED

By the way, Fuller said on Twitter the other day that there would be three sex scenes this season, involving a total of five people. Ready yourselves.