My Ma watched Sleepwalk with Me and Homeland in the same weekend and, even though she knew Rebhorn from other stuff, thought that he had some kind of sleep disorder that was getting him typecast in stuff. RIP to a talented man.

Bram Stoker's Dracula: Gary Oldman, Anthony Hopkins, Keanu Reeves. One of these things is not like the other.

Fair 'nough. Serves me right for reading the book 10+ years ago.

I'm curious, are you going to stop watching? I'm not trying to be snarky or dismissive of what you and others have cited as a real problem that seems to have permanently eroded your faith in the story being told, I just genuinely can't conceive of a creative choice like the death of a character causing me to stop…

Wait - Glory *is* Ben?

'sall good. You still def. deserve a wallet with BAD MOTHERFUCKER stitched on it.

The only reason to think Abigail didn't die in the books is because Will Graham told his seven-year-old stepson she didn't. That's definitely an acceptable lie when the alternative is traumatizing the boy with, "Oh, no wait, your stepdad's therapist killed that girl, who was an accessory to multiple murders, and what…

Glad to see people have been talking up some of the David Lynch bits that were in this episode. We got strobes (even the metronome-like projector was shaped like one of Lynch's logos), head trauma, Will doppelgangers, Reitzell's score seemed totally Badalamenti (even for him!). I loved it.

Smoked ham and cheddar torta with buttered jalapenos and a triple shot of John Walker Red. 'sbeen a long week.

I could see Hannibal finding the bullet hole but not something else that got hit by the shot. There's enough crazy crap in that place to keep a serial killer spackling and mending for months.

FUCK YES I WAS HOPING SOMEONE MADE THIS REFERENCE

Honey Bunny's real name was Yolanda. Ringo's nickname for robbing banks and diners was Pumpkin.

I'd argue that, at least in his own self-conception, he's brilliant (or what we would call insane) enough that he has to improv, especially with the mitigating factors of Will Graham seeing him. It's the only way to make life interesting when you consider the vast majority of people to be pigs. And as much as he had…

But is he just an orderly with a fixation on Will or is he (WILDLY SPECULATIVE SPOILERS THAT I EXPECT WILL NOT PAN OUT) the Fullerverse version of Barney, who we remember from the novel Hannibal was a bit warped after spending years with Dr. Lecter?

. . . and you didn't?

I think Fuller wanted us to know by the end of this episode that Hannibal's not the killer. The scene between the two of them in which they review the evidence folder certainly points that way. Will just doesn't believe it yet.

In all fairness, if you ever listen to the commentary on Re-Animator, David Gale sounds like a fucking chill dude.

I'm certainly not crazy about everything the supervillain's done since this, but for any problems JJ DOOM may have had in production, it did not suffer for a lack of dope lyrics.

Boy, I hope so.

Phenomenal book! Fuller has a great quote in an interview where he describes Francis Dolarhyde as "a man experiencing a midlife crisis [who] also may or may not have a serious personality disorder" that made me really excited to see what he could do with the character and dissipated any doubts I might have had about…