Good review, but why so late? This episode has been out there for a while.

Right. Nuance. You nailed it.

"Daniel has such a beautiful heart, but he is so irreparably broken."

Yeah, truly. It's weird. I've never wanted to hate a character so much yet keep getting drawn into feeling damn near protective of him. If I were Tawney, I'd pray about it, but my atheistic soul is completely lost, unmoored.

Wait, did you use the words "Frank" and "booth" deliberately just now? Another nod to Lynch?

Looks like you're not alone, but I don't get it. Then again, you say any word often enough, it starts to sound bizarre and meaningless. Maybe it's about expectation. You start to say the name and you expect Amanda. By the time you hear Amantha, you think someone must have left the S off the beginning. But now you've…

I genuinely don't know why it bothers anyone, but then I like unusual names. Michonne. Bedelia. Brona. Lorne Malvo. TV is full of them.

Honestly. Who really gives a fuck about their fucking names? You people got way too much time on your hands. Right?

You say that like it's a bad thing. Perhaps we need more clandestine elderly MySpace users.

That scene of Cobain you mention is in Montage of Heck, which I literally watched a day before this episode of TD!

Slightly off topic, but Fred Ward has to play Jon Bernthal's dad at some point, amirite?

That is indeed fitting, isn't it? I like.

Wow, that's going far back, but yeah. It's an English thing, I think. Maybe. The hart of the wood.

I genuinely can't tell if I just had a profound insight or whether this is merely a cheap pun, but does anyone think Hannibal (okay, the show's writers) was making a hart/heart joke with that thing?

Plus its easy to cover up, as Bradley is already supposed to be dead.

Absolutely. To avoid ageing Freddie Highmore (which always looks dumb), they could have the POV from inside the Bates house, framed by a window, with a stand-in Norman filmed in silhouette, and Marion's car arriving in torrential rain.

Great minds? :)

I hope they end it when Marion shows up. I have this fantasy that the final scene will be exactly that, her pulling into the parking lot, although filmed in black and white, with a clip of Bernard Hermann's score looping until everything fades to grey. :)

This Manchester-born viewer agrees. It's a mess. I didn't know the actress is a Manc, though. (Anyone curious about the accent, Liam/Noel Gallagher's a good call, but also search for Karl Pilkington.)

We don't know if it was bloodless, as it was filmed in black and white. ;)