The Barrel! I just realized, Hannibal is the first Bryan Fuller show that doesn't have a signature restaurant as the main set.

At this point in the show's run, I'll watch it if it's on but I wouldn't go out of my way to watch it if I missed it, and I feel the same way about Review after the first two.

I actually hope they stick to their three-season vision. Thirty excellent episodes of an excellent television series. That'll make it nice and easy to get on DVD and force all of my friends to adore.

Yesyesyesyesyes!

The only continuity in the show is his daughter Lily and his 10 year old agent. And that lack of continuity makes the show all the better. I'd welcome Parker Posey back to play "weird girlfriend number something or other."

Fire the editor. Or the writer. Or producer, or hell, even the director. Just not the actor… the show needs Louis CK.

The daughters thing isn't true, they're consistently the same. But the ex-wife does differ. Not that it matters: we understand the SPIRIT of the ex-wife. The reality doesn't matter.

That answers my second question: Will they meet the deadline for Emmy consideration?

Well it just got renewed for a fourth season… but I always kind of hoped it went 4 seasons (for four years of her Vice Presidency) and the series finale was her sitting down as newly-elected Veep again, back to dealing with the shitstorm of settling for second. And the final message: nothing changes for Selina.

They must have assumed we've seen enough of her "dripping with bullshit" speeches to know exactly how it would sound. Doesn't mean I wouldn't have enjoyed the credits montage to be the best clips from the speech.

There's always Louie… but I reckon Louie and Veep split the vote for Series anyways. But you never know. Colbert Report won Variety Series last year after 10 years of The Daily Show. Maybe they'll pick quality and art over whatever Modern Family is supposed to be.

Isn't the plural of moose meese?

Their cops ride horses. He can just drive away.

They took his casting out of the CW playbook. The sole criterion: Be attractive and not yet famous for anything.

Definitely by the point someone is willing to pretend they're your dead girlfriend because they'd rather fuck you than break up with you (the most logically-safe option).

That's a loaded question. And the glasses, obviously.

I would expect nothing less from such a gentleman. (He's a gentleman, but a gentle man, he is not.)

It has a nice middle ground for me between the gritty, dark normalcy of Dead Like Me, and the artfully-constructed cartoonishness of Pushing Daisies. (And the gruesome death of both.) I think a lot of "new to Hannibal" or "new to Fuller" viewers might find it too unbelievable, because it does dip into the unreal…

SPOILER: Hannibal eats Alana Bloom.

If this show has taught me anything, it's that Hugh Dancy looks beautiful in any lighting. That and Mads Mikkelsen's cheekbones.