Worse, she made a video game.

Once the story gets through Reddit and 4chan I'm sure there will be an outpouring of sympathy.

Don't tell Jeff Ross.

Did the cops check his midichlorian count?

SO TRUTH

Balance is the key word here, agreed, and I too liked having Jack back to clearly state his motives, i.e. finding Will. Though another imagined conversation between Will and Hannibal at least makes sense from Will's standpoint, as he's a man who basically lives in his own head.

Chilton was funny in his asshole-ish way. Hey, comedy's hard!

I love the show but I'm getting a bit tired of molasses nature of this early season, the pace of which makes the abstract dialogue and imagery all the more distracting. We know Will will catch Hannibal, so I guess I'm a little bored of watching them circle one another.

Fuller was very smart to pare down Hannibal Rising to almost nothing. Even by Thomas Harris standards, that novel is lurid and melodramatic to the point of distraction. The idea of Hannibal 'just being' is far preferable to some goofy Nazi revenge origin story.

If the show catches up to the BB continuity, then a Walt appearance would be fine. Otherwise I would not mind if we ever saw Walt (or Jesse for that matter). BCS is good enough to breathe on its own without the callbacks, and I include Tuco in that mix.

Marty chafing over Rust's philosophical blathering was quite funny.

That info's a bit buried. Would help to move it to the top of the piece.

Though it didn't exactly work for me as a procedural, either. The last couple of episodes leaned heavily on the case at hand, to the show's detriment. TD didn't need to follow a supernatural track, but the conspiratorial weirdness - which as I recall was pretty much sloughed off -was more interesting than what we…

You are allowed to cry, good sir or madam.

The Reek rhyming was up there with Jaime's POV 'she fucked Osmund Kettleblack, and Moon Boy for all I know' thoughts.

Needed more SHAME SHAME SHAME

But last week established Hannibal's new life and his hold over Bedelia, This week featured a 5-minute rehash of what we already knew, along with a lot of trippy visuals and the usual Hannibal philosophizing. I like all that stuff, just in smaller doses where the story's at the forefront.

I usually appreciate Hannibal's arthouse horror aesthetic, but I'm ready for some straight-ahead storytelling starting next week. Just not a huge fan of 40-some minutes of dreamy weirdness.

As long as I don't have to hear anymore whining about the biologist trying to make friends with that snake thing.

Them gams!