I would also say that "Far Beyond the Stars" has more layers than "In the Pale Moonlight." Fantastic as it is, "Moonlight" does boil down to a single question, while "Stars" has a central issue but also a whole world that branches off from it and that is worth discussing (not to mention the opportunity it affords to…

"The FBI killed your son because he was guilty."

The attempted rape as political assassination plot point is actually taken from history (hence, presumably, its being several leagues cleverer and more interesting than anything else in the pilot). In reality, it happened after Mary had been widowed and had returned to Scotland, looking for a new husband. A courtier…

Yes.  He's been gaslighting Will for weeks, trying to either convince him that he's crazy, or actually drive him crazy, or make him look like a killer (I'm not entirely sure because the show seems to change its mind every week). 

I think it's more that Jack is a bad cop who is just as prone to Will to leap to theories, but lacks Will's magical ability to be right all the time (though he was right about Abigail).

That was awesome, but I think I'd have appreciated the show hanging a lantern on the fact that its characters are such terrible cops a little more if their attempt to do their job didn't result in railroading an innocent man.  The show seems to be steering us towards the conclusion that law enforcement should begin…

Did it have to be a checkmate, though?  I was screaming at Abigail to do something, anything, to even try to get away.  Hell, if she'd scratched Hannibal's face, she could have made getting away with her murder just a little bit difficult for him.  I think the show has established her as sufficiently cold and…