Yeah, when Hannibal said "I gave you a child" I was like UHHHHHHH BUT ALSO

Look, I try not to get too hung up on grammatical errors and so on, but is it too much to ask that character names and episode titles be correct?

THR. I saw somewhere links aren't going through here now, which is why I didn't use one, but if you google "Sam Esmail interview" (which is what I did) it should come up on the first page. Add "THR" to your search terms and I'm sure it'll be right up top.

I was looking through interviews with Esmail today and found this, figured I'd come back and share it:

…they weren't there by choice. They were there because the gang brought them there. The dudes who took Shayla away were there the whole time ("Time's up,") but what was different and effective about the execution is that we the audience did not know this.

I mean, at least for the software-operated doors, I've definitely heard/seen that before, and this is what the show's main tech consultant had to say in the weekly "explain technology" post on Forbes:

I believe it was originally conceived as a movie, so this is a very interesting question to me as well. How much can be added to/wrung out of what has to have once been a much shorter/smaller story?

I guess. Nothing is impossible (which is great), and I love the fact that the show succeeds in making its audience as paranoid as Elliot, but there are a lot of times when I feel like people are working harder than they need to? There are a lot of things commenters seem to insist are or could be imaginary that I often…

You know about makeup and costuming and lighting, right? They may be presented in the way you describe (though I have my doubts) but in terms of their actual looks, nope.

I love the fact that his savior complex is a fatal flaw for him instead of a Noble Quality [TM]. Angela laid it out for him just fine and he learned nothing.

He doesn't officially have the job yet. He can't fire anybody. Remains to be seen what he'll do when he's actually in the door.

All storytelling is manipulation. We only call it that and get mad at it when it's done badly.

Interesting. The parallel I saw was not between Wellick getting taken apart and Elliot falling apart, but between the CTO winning his dick-swinging confrontation with Wellick and Elliot winning his with Vera's brother.

The other thing is that Elliot has a deep, deep mistrust of authority and dominant systems. Everything from his father's death to his basic personality, plus the fact that he does lots of illegal shit regularly, adds up to his being a person whose instinct in a bad situation is to do anything but call the cops. I'm…

I just saw that as telling us the restaurant is a common haunt for this gang and anyone who's there regularly knows what's up.

That was so, so well done. The way the goons come in seemingly out of nowhere and drag her off is something you're totally unprepared for. A rare case where surprise works better than suspense.

I totally agree. The great thing about the scope of the story, its many branches, is that they can almost riff on different genres in different episodes. The one where they went to Steel Mountain was a heist. This one was a crime drama. All the office stuff at Allsafe is a kind of workplace drama and the stuff with…

Yeah, that pulled me up short. What about the doors to the actual building…?

Hannibal.

Bingo.