When Alana walked out of Will's house, the dogs were there. He wouldn't have left them alone, so there had to be a conversation (and she was inside the house and spoke of will's intentions).

in the aftermath of last season, chilton made his first visit to mason, who turned him away. he later went to alana, and in their conversation they acknowledged that they needed to manipulate will in order to get to hannibal; of all the people he visited, she was the one who agreed to cooperate. when chilton went to…

i think they kinda overplay the meta element here (not a huge fan of the video; little errors kind of clue you in when someone isn't really into it). chilton's words served the narrative far more.

it was their father who made that condition, but as a survivor of the south and the southern baptist church, i found it funny to hear it spoken specifically by mason, who (consistent with the south's history and biblical rationale for every horror it has enacted along the way, and still inflicts) is able to construct…

One of my favorite lines in the episode was Verger's reminder that, without an heir, the fortune goes to the Southern Baptist Church—not just the church, the Southern Baptist Church! Intentional or not, it was such a great condemnation of the popular church mindset that even someone as monstrous as Verger could view…

I think Hannibal knew he wasn't going to get that far. When he had Will at the table, Will asked him if he was expecting a guest, because of the other place setting. So he knew Jack was going to show up. He knew Verger was likely sending more hunters—even drugged out, Bedelia knew that local police were scrambling…

I thought the part about Juna was funny also because on a certain level she was trying to reclaim some of the attention being given to Valerie. She challenges Valerie about the show and how it hurt her; she brings up Mickey and how he looks; and she mentions Mark and seems not to know about them (though as made…