Hannibal's the show that's so least like everything else he's done as well. It's kind of sad that there's now an expectation that he follow up on that with something similarly serious and intense, when he's said as much himself that it's the show that least represents his interests and personality.

Eh, you said a dumb thing on the internets. Happens to the best of us. I don't hold it against you, and I'm sorry you feel bad. You didn't have to delete your comment.

Some pretty great casting, tbh. Other than the lead guy from Under The Dome, that is. Ashley Zuckerman, Yael Stone, Charles Dance. Strong actors.

I get where you're coming from here, and it was jarring, but I'm wondering whether you're critiquing this carte-blanche, or just in this particular case?

Just throwing it out there, but part of this season's "confusing", "messy" plotting is surely designed to create a deliberate, anxious affect, right? The Cthulioid, messy emotions and entanglements of various different agencies, the constant pans past tangled highways and byways, the knotty red-tape the cast have to…

Plenty of gay characters (and even human beings!) experience severe repression without having to have been molested at a young age. That kind of logic leads to really uncomfortable places, and ties into negative stereotyping about queer recruiting and stuff.

I don't think you need to root for someone or something in order for television to be good, or even compelling. There are entire genres of television predicated on watching people fuck up and fail — satire, black comedy, ect. And this show is satire.

Having Mary literally slip out of Rachel’s grasp, after becoming unhinged due to Shia’s swapping out of her meds, swung UnREAL from the bitchy fun zone into an extremely dark territory.

People forget that season 2 had some good momentum before the writer's strike derailed it.

More than likely, the second wave came along because the first wave said it was great, didn't find it to be so, and had louder voices / greater numbers.

Yeah, but Soderbergh's a digital expert. He once said that every time he sees something shot on film, a little part of him dies. He's a heavy outlier case.

Huh. I'm not sure that this is a table setting episode, mostly because I don't know what one is, or what the reviewer means by the term, or if the term has ever been properly codified as meaning something in particular. Feels like it's a general purpose metaphor that Todd made up at some point, that then went and…

I think they're all shots of her too, which was interesting.

It was a little disjointed compared to the straight narrative runs of the last two,

We've been watching this as it's been coming out, and it's been pretty great.

That's the joke.

Really — the cops have got no other reason to go there. The operation's legit. Ani went there on the rumour that her sister would be there, because (as both Athena and her father diagnose) she's looking for reasons to get angry at her family (whose lifestyle she blames for her mother's suicide, amongst other things).

The only bit I really cringed at was Ani doing that prostitution bust and her sister conveniently be there…I loathe that kind of incidental writing.

The one-off romance that gforguava appears to be talking about is that one between One (?) and that blonde colonist. Given that she was otherwise unremarkable, and the making-out was so incredibly sudden and seemingly poorly motivated, you'd be forgiven for not remembering it.

I don't think she'd have been returning to either show, actually. So she's completely free.