Yay, Okkervil River! I really like Rob Thomas' taste in music (or his music supervisor's, whoever). "Your Past Life as a Blast" was such a great choice on so many levels.

I can sort of see that. I'd love to see those two work together.

They could. They're primary colours, red, blue and yellow - which in turn correspond to Glob, Ice King and Jake respectively.

1. Wake Up/Escape From the Citadel
2. Is That You?
3. Something Big
4. Hot Diggity Doom/The Comet
5. You Forgot Your Floaties

saucy

Ugh, yeah, Gravity Falls scheduling is the actual worst across all of TV. Such a terrific show yet they seem to be doing everything they can to destroy its flow.

Not very sexy at all. Thankfully he had a good face/body to offset it.

I'm so damn happy Tig Notaro is part of the Adventure Time universe now.

Oh man, imagine if Joe directed an episode of Hannibal.

It was very Glazer, very Under the Skin. Which, I suppose, could just as easily be the title of this show.

A whole world of experimental cinema would disagree with you, among other things, of course. Coherence is often either overrated or has its value inflated beyond need. We are, fundamentally, dealing with a medium the unique pleasures of come in the entwinement of the aural and visual. But, of course, if you prefer…

Again, you're being way too literal with a show which operates in illusion and suggestion.

My guess is that if Martin doesn't factor into the finale tomorrow then what they have planned for the S7 premiere will probably address it, and so this was an episode they wanted to get out before then to keep the timeline of the show humming along in its odd little way. Given that S6 started with the big reveal of…

Oh, no, I guess Americans say tank top, don't they? Just that.

Things like love and friendship are entirely relative depending on the person they are being invoked or discussed by. Religious belief does exist in Hannibal, just not in literal forms. There's a ton of brainwashing, fervent belief, self-generated ignorance taking place in a lot of the killers' minds to allow them to…

"Laura Dern is eternally great!" is the most accurate trailer pull-quote in history.

But it didn't fully commit to serialisation. It doubled down, but there are still a number of cases of the week looped into the second season. I don't really see the huge gulf in how the two seasons operated as you do, but I thought the first season was great TV already. The second was just greater.

Yes, I think TD works as that fantasy; it's everything else around it that I found flimsy (it doesn't help that so much of the show hinges on McConaughey, for whom I don't particularly care no matter how many supposedly brilliant performances of his I watch).

Yes, S2 was absolutely a step up in terms of cohesion between all of its disparate elements. But I don't think they ever felt out of place in S1; they were sort of necessary groundwork for what the show would go on to cover. In terms of the series' long-game, you might call them weaker, but not weak.

I know being anti-procedural is what good TV nerds are supposed to do these days, but there are plenty of brilliant procedurals throughout TV history. Few of which are current, sure, but I've heard the arguments about Hannibal's procedural elements being its undoing before and I continue to think they're utter…