Yeah, seemed weird to me that Caliban spent so much time moaning about how hideous he is, when frankly, in Victorian London where syphilitic face-rot was not a rarity; he's probably a real looker!

Weakest point in this show is the character design of Dorian Gray, which got even worse this week - seriously, Justin Bieber hair and leather pants? This sort of literary horror pastiche has been done so often before, that it really requires some love/knowledge of the time period to and works referenced make it work;…

Sorry, I was being at least a little irreverent - I've always felt everything after Silence was Harris deliberately trolling an audience he was exasperated with.

I'm genuinely surprised anyone thought/still thinks Hannibal isn't evil? I love to watch the character, but he's an utterly self-centred control freak bastard, and I can't remember the series ever portraying him otherwise. If anything, I thought his spiteful passion at Will actually humanized hom a bit.

To be fair, none of those things exist in the world of Thomas Harris' books either…

Doubt they can get rights to the Starling character as it's already been established they can't use Barney, Jame Gumb or Benjamin Raspail due to rights ownership conflict with the films…

Reminds me of that bit in Dracula where Harker is all freaked out to see Dracula doing his own housework; as to the Victorian mind that was an ooky spooky inversion of the natural order.

As he gave some to the little kid too, I assumed it was symbolic of some kind of rape or molestation given his proclivities in the book. 'Sweets from strange men' etc. Whatever the case, I'm glad it was implied and not explicit.

Ooh, no, but he did do lark tongue parfait for his roman feast. Strange yen to listen to prog rock now… lol

Gave me flashbacks to Heston Blumenthal's Victorian Feast show. Aspic. So much aspic. Eating Mason's nose might be preferable.

The reference might not be specific, but more to the whole Iago feeding Othello lies about Desdemona and persuading him to kill her, which fits nicely with how Bedelia was describing what Hannibal does.

I thought it was a particularly nice touch how Chilton obviously dressed to try and emulate Hannibal's plaid suits, but instead ended up looking like a used car salesman.

Really? I thought that at first, but this episode I finally realised he was doing Gary Oldman's Verger voice from the film.

I think Fuller stated in an interview that they couldn't get the rights to use the Barney character, but were planning a similar character - in the same way they had Franklin and Tobias because they couldn't get rights for Jame Gumb and Benjamin Raspail.

I think I actually giggled in delight when he did the leg sweep thing.

I'm from New Zealand and I'd finished watching before the review was even posted :-) (Admittedly I do jump online every Saturday afternoon specifically for that purpose)

I love that anecdote from season one where Fuller had problems with the censors due to buttcrack showing on the dead bodies, so just slathered more blood on there and that made it ok.

Also, Dorian Gray is written in a supremely irritating manner and styled in such an anachronistic way I gave up on it as soon as he started giving what I assume was meant to be a 'seductive' speech to Eva Green.

Surprised this got such a good review. I love Eva Green, but the whole thing feels like it's been done a million times before.

Yes, that made me even more concerned as to where the scene was going, lol