There are a TON of Mormon fantasy authors, and many of them are great. Shannon Hale, for example, writes extremely charming and interesting fairy tale types for kids, and she herself is quite intelligent and kind. I stopped reading Brandon Sanderson because he's more of the Orson Scott Card school of bigotry.

I haven't read or seen either, but you have to be pretty culturally oblivious to not know who Hannibal Lecter is through osmosis, and judging by the ratings, the oblivious are not watching this show.

Bryan Fuller said at one point that every time you see meat on screen, you can assume it's human. I'm not sure I love how easily accessible the creator's intentions are now - for every form of media - but there's that.

I kept hoping Beverly would, in that scene in the morgue. He was clearly becoming unhinged, and she was the only one there who is both empathetic enough and comfortable enough with Will to give him the hug he so desperately needs.

A boat engine, according to Bryan Fuller's Twitter: https://twitter.com/BryanFu…

Tonight's was definitely in an orange prescription bottle, so I think it's something a little stronger. I got the impression it was Xanax, but I feel like we've already heard what it was, so someone with a better memory should correct me.

I've inadvertently started saying variations on, "This is my design," in normal conversation. I don't know how I feel about this.

I kept saying, "Why am I rooting so hard for a guy who literally JUST snapped an innocent man's neck?!"

That was so clearly Franklin's greatest moment - in his own head. Finally, he was helping a great person who'd gone astray! This was his lifelong dream! He could talk Tobias down and save the day!

"I didn't poison you" but I did feed you people, so it's basically a wash for you.

@avclub-7aee1b75b527e215f31e20a5c4e7a768:disqus My impression was that she was trying to pull away from straight pop-country for a more folk sound. I mean, the first two songs we heard of hers had lines about dealing with a break-up by getting "drunk on wine" and about some dude leaving "secrets in [her] bed." Taylor…

I'm with you on the favorites part, and the weirdest thing is how very different those two shows are. I feel like there should be very little overlap in audience, yet somehow we exist.

@avclub-3db41011acc2d229176bf6a92202728d:disqus And it's the opposite of intuition, too!

@avclub-6ee934260c80f2e2f9098dcd3e44c032:disqus I can see that, but Juliette's on-camera and on-stage presentation is SO different from Taylor Swift's. She went straight for glam and never played around with innocent. She also doesn't do those sweet, heartfelt, romantic songs that Swift made her name on. I think that…

I think Juliette's more of a Carrie Underwood than a Taylor Swift, really.

Haven't seen this episode yet, but as much as I love her slow quiet stuff, my absolute favorite Scarlett song is definitely "One Works Better." So yeah. More up-tempo stuff from her, please!

It's because there are no dead people in Wonderfalls.

Yes, that's what I said. I thought there would be more puns in the song if the title were a pun.

Sidebar: Do we think it's "Grin and Bear It" or "Grin and Bare It"? I was wondering about that all through the number. There wasn't as much punnery as I would've expected if it were the latter, but it would still make sense.

And Jimmy's response: "I'm not a writer!" Well, you're a songwriter, so I'd say you're pretty close, dude.