Why not have every one of your writers vote for each match-up then? You should be offsetting each other's biases on some acceptable level.

With large enough samples (which I would assume 20K + 50K is more than large enough), adding more votes would just skewer the results lightly. If 20k more women voted, it would be pretty safe to assume their votes would be spread around in the same way. Same goes for 40k more men.

Well, now we have a different sort of problem, since you dont really understand how statistics work.

Right, but ToBooks does not judge individual chapters that are randomly selected? The idea that any reviewer could just disregard the emotional impact of the whole, the build up and payoffs of the entire series/season while judging two shows like TGW and Hannibal is pretty ridiculous.

Not too long. 9 episodes or so.

Watch both shows regularly, and Im sorry but no matter how much I enjoy TGW and think it is clever, these two shows are in different galaxies, one where you admire the sleek elegant wit that you kinda forget all about by the next day, and the other that rips your heart out every Friday.

Oh boi.

Could SS please explain how exactly is TGW a "deconstructed legal procedural"? More focus on the characters VS the pure legal procedure does not a deconstruction make.

Shirley you mean "sickly" addictive quality? :)

I know, right? Its dumbfounding how derivative, pastiche-y, and uninspir/ed/ing HoC is.

Hell yeah, that was the song that first popped into my head when I read the headline.

Yes, we did need to see that, as opposed to hearing about it in some side-ways way. The emotional impact, the disgust, the terror, the despair - are there because we saw it.

So what if the show shows rape? It shows brutality in all forms, why shy away from rape? Violence is at the core of that world, and that world has to be seen as such, fully.

No regrets.

Agree, especially in the light of previous episodes' talk of death. Mediocrity, banality, non-exquisiteness of prison life would probably make him absorbed into his mind palace. I guess we will see :) My previous comment was more about Hannibal asking Will why didnt he kill him, because I do not think that was what…

I really dont think he did. It was more of an accusation "you would take my life?", to which Will replies "No, not your life"; Hannibal: "my freedom then?"

Yes, but now it is all in the open. No more games, no more masks. There was no going back from this. As Hannibal said: "To the truth then. And all of its consequences."

Right, but why not kill him as soon as he heard Hannibal was behind him? Deer in the headlights type of thing? I felt Hannibal's death was off the table for Will at least, no matter how much he fantasized about it…

That was my first feeling after watching as well. This is so good, it hurts.

You should read this book, it answers that question exactly: Supersense, by Bruce Hood.