I'd tend to agree with you but as I mentioned in another comment at some point I just decided to go all in with all of the crazy choices the show made, even the ones I didn't like, because I was just so delighted by their commitment to crazy.

Now that you mention it, her performance can sort of be looked at as a microcosm of the season as a whole. And I think sometimes it worked and sometimes it didn't, but I mostly loved and was fascinated by it.

Your premise assumes that it's not possible to truly love something or someone and simultaneously know it is bad for you/them/others. I feel like, in discussions of this show, a lot of people's ideas of love are more… uniformly positive than mine are.

I'd argue he threw them over the cliff because he loves that part of himself and Hannibal Lecter.

Their last conversation really made me laugh. I was like "This isn't even dialog. No sentence bears any relationship to any other sentence, nor do any of the words in a given sentence relate to one another. And yet… they seem angry."

Well, with regard to your first question, I think yes it's because they understand each other. Everyone knows that Will has this violent empathy, but Hannibal is the only person who knows that he sometimes likes it. So Will would reasonably assume that there is no way anyone could ever love all of him - they might…

I agree with you that Hannibal surrendered to it in the moment. It's the one thing Bryan's said about the finale that I don't agree with, though it's not the first time I haven't agreed with him!

This finale, like the last one, has left me in a strange state for days, where I can't quite put my finger on what I'm feeling or why it hurts so much; I just know, like Will, that it's beautiful.

Agreed, but it's also a satisfying end if it comes to that. WHICH I HOPE IT DOESN'T. But if it does. IT HAD BETTER NOT. I mean, I'm just saying. NO I'M NOT.

Well, I for one loved it and was thoroughly fucked up by it!

Not talking about the Hannibal finale here when I watched it two days ago is weird and unsatisfying. The episode thread on Reddit already has over a thousand comments! I don't blame NBC for the cancellation but moving the show to Saturdays was a dick move that has earned them a place in my Rolodex.

All I've been doing since I watched the Hannibal finale is watch the Hannibal finale, think about the Hannibal finale, or think about watching the Hannibal finale.

"Flashy, making the scene" has to be one of the funniest things ever said on TV. Jerry is not even making the slightest attempt to stay in character during it.

Banjo!

Crank you for being a crank!

Dude, if we start posting pics of him everyone should look at we'll be here for a week.

I find Mads so attractive that I make weird anguished animal sounds whenever I see him. Are you more of a Dancy fancier?

My brother also adores that entire scene and quotes it constantly. It's just the best.

This is a blow. "Corky, we want you to live!"

PFT playing Gourley's love interest is so perfect. Every time Heathcliff showered Cathy with terms of endearment I was like "I TOTALLY UNDERSTAND WHERE YOU'RE COMING FROM RIGHT NOW PAUL."