The drinking scene at Kaer Morhen is one of the funniest scenes I've ever seen in a game, if you go for broke and play it all the way to the end. Really lets you see just how far CDPR's tongue is in their cheek, despite all the accusations of grimdark cynicism.

Pretty sure the phrenology bit should have been a tip-off…

Color me startled that there aren't many Mexicans in Denmark….?

Working with difficult children and adolescents, you are encouraged to use 'how come' instead of 'why' because it is less likely to cause a kneejerk defensive reaction. If you're not careful with your tone, of course, it can come across as patronizing instead of disarming.

Apparently a lot of people mistake the purpose of the podcast, which isn't to be a fucking thesis defense, but to pique the average listener's interest in unusual topics so that they might like to pick up a book and read more about it on their own someday. I suspect it's the "average listener" part that really…

Your objection is pure applesauce.

Is it wrong that I picture Dolarhyde's grandmother as Don Imus? I started one day, and now I just can't stop.

Ego might be the case in some instances, but in others what you are testing is whether their temperament allows for them to accept/permit small evils for the sake of a greater good.

Right, though not to that extremity. Particularly not the kid attempting suicide after that by eating rat poison (IIRC).

That's what I liked about Petersen. With Dancy, you wonder if he might hurt someone because he's in crazy mode, but you know he would be agonizing about it later. With Petersen, you get the feeling that he might be a mongoose (to use the show's metaphor), but that doesn't mean that he cares what he has to do to get…

I actually liked a lot of his performance (minus those scenery-chewing portions). Of all the Will Grahams that have made it to the screen, his is the only one who didn't need to say a word to show you that the dark things that touched his mind left an ugly black smudge.

I think you're right on the money. Ultimately, Mikkelsen's characterization excels exactly as much as it differs from the Hannibal of the novel. Lucifer is much more fertile soil to draw inspiration from than Dracula.

The cure premise does bring up all kinds of interesting conflicts—which the film has no actual interest in exploring. It didn't help that at the time the film was being made, the X-Men in the comics were distinctly anti-government (due to the Civil War arc), and so it made the plausibility of the storyline harder to…

Without a scratch until the rematch with Jack, at least. That was a glorious beatdown.

The show basically took the book's ending chapters and sprinkled them through Season Three. Some were reworked into Bedelia's defense (I was drugged and susceptible to suggestion!) and others into Hannibal's relationship with Abigail (particularly the confrontation with her dead father).

In the book, Mason literally liked to add a child's tears to his drinks, gained by inviting inner city kids to his ranch, then telling them that they were going to be taken from their families and their pets put to sleep.

My main problem with it is that the ways it deviates from the source material are almost entirely to its detriment. They simply didn't have the courage to make Starling embark on a darker path.

I've never seen that deleted scene, and I like the idea of it being played with ambiguity. That ambiguity is one of the things I liked most about the ending Kiyoshi Kurosawa's film Cure, another film about taking on the mindsets of others.

There is clearly a progression happening. He traveled specifically to pay for sex with minors on multiple occasions, and he was texting a woman he was dating asking to be introduced to her underage cousin, and asking what she thought of the three of them together, etc.

I liked it, getting the chance to get the stories right from the mouths of some of my favorite rappers.