I love that the undercover cop doesn't just achieve undeserved success— he really truly loves what he's doing, awful as it is. It's a familiar story, cynical authority figure is tasked with infiltrating a community of [X] and discovers that he really identifies with [X] (to the horror of his superiors) and has a…

I know what you mean, but Liefeld was only one awful point in a long tradition of creative anatomy. There's a great line in Michael Chabon's Kavalier and Clay about how the young guys illustrating Golden Age comics, with no previous experience at heroic figures, tended to draw "eyeceps and octoceps and beltoids."

There are only 6 abdominal muscles in a human being, so if Pratt had 10 that'd be a little disturbing.

I liked it a lot, and specifically liked the thing you didn't like: that the serial killer character was not a good match for the investigator. Much as I love Hannibal, there have been plenty of shows and movies about brilliant manipulative psychopaths playing games with the cops. It was refreshing to see something a…

I agree and I also liked that they found a way to make the Verger story relevant to the ongoing Will/Hannibal conflict, instead of just being yet another case of Hannibal fucking someone up. Setting up Mason as bait was a good idea… well not really a good idea in any sane sense, but a good narrative idea, because (at…

As Mason said, meat is a people business.

The commercial breaks on this show are often really, really unfortunate. Watching it on Xfinity OnDemand, right after Margot's hysterectomy there was a NuvaRing ad that started: "Millions of women are finding out, there's a new method of birth control!"

I'm enjoying Pitt's performance way more than I expected, and infinitely more than I liked any of the Verger stuff in the book. As lots of people have said, it's reminiscent of the Heath Ledger Joker, except that the Joker's I-don't-give-a-fuck-and-I-love-it persona is scary because there's this powerful self-control…

Yeah, Fred was saying that he had never gotten to meet Emmett's wife despite having this long relationship with Emmett, whereas now he's meeting Philip's wife right away. Philip and Elizabeth know that Fred was very loyal to Emmett, so they're trying to present themselves as people he can have even more of a bond with.

I suspect my politics are pretty similar to yours and I don't think de Blasio is any kind of Stalinist either, but just to nit-pick, it's perfectly possible for well-meaning people to overlook bad things in their support of what they believe to be a good cause (and I don't mean "believe" in a condescending way; I…

Just in case anyone is interested— not that anyone should be using this comment thread in place of a history textbook anyway, but I think it's cool that the show is bringing up this history and I'd rather not see it derailed by the same Reaganite rhetoric that I heard when it was originally happening:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wik…

"the original "election" had him winning by 90%"

Like Larrick said, she was good at her job.

Ah right, I was looking at a page that is based on the books— everyone is older on the show. And comparing the timeline of the show to the Dunk & Egg novellas doesn't really make sense since those aren't on TV. But unless they changed them up very drastically, there'd be no way to get Tywin into those stories unless…

You're both right: Lysa has only two scenes in book 3, but her death is at the end of the book because there are 11 unrelated chapters about other people in between those two scenes.

I don't think the show is soft-pedaling that, I think the show just hasn't gotten yet to the point in time where the consequences are becoming obvious. We've already seen several characters making a point of how the Red Wedding was beyond the pale and would surely bring bad karma for the Freys or for the realm in…

I ilke that Gregor isn't just somewhat unclear on what Oberyn's deal is, he doesn't even give a shit why his boss has told him to fight this guy ("some dead man"). If Oberyn hadn't repeated his story 100 times Gregor probably would've never bothered to figure it out.

I will.

Tywin is 58 years old. Also, there are no living dragons in the days of Dunk and Egg anyway.