I like Millennium but let's be real, the writing on the show was frequently awful, turgid and ham-fisted. And for all the unsettling conspiracy angles and a couple of the more memorable serial killers (big dude in waders driving dead women around on fishing trips), nothing can overcome Chris Carter's fundamental…

Next season is apparently going to be about the origins of the villains from Hannibal the book, Mason Verger. I'm not sure how t hat would fit in given the timeline, but
they're probably going to radically alter it. There are a couple of issues with
Verger. One is that Fuller's stated an intent not to include sexual…

TBH with the exchange last episode and this episode I don't think of the Du Maurier / Hannibal thing as a villain cabal. When she implores Hannibal to stop fucking around with Will there's a desperate passivity to it. I think a lot of the "captive mentality" aspect of abusive relationships when I see the scene from…

I like that when Hannibal asks if he feels alone and Will replies "not as alone as you" it seems like he's saying what he knows before he even knows it, he's just repeating out loud the ambient insight of his empathy without immediately realizing what it means. He catches up quick but he doesn't take it well.

Hugh Dancy is a long shot even for a nomination, but Mads may have a shot.

C'mon, all the Hannibal / Du Maurier scenes are ambiguous but not THAT ambiguous. The veal line could not be read as anything other than coy.

I maintain that the character is consistent with his depiction in both Red Dragon and Silence of the Lambs. Hell, they basically spell his whole deal out in this episode. He was not oblivious to the fact that Will was getting progressively more fucked up as time went on, he knew what he was doing and figured that his…

There can't be a lot of pussyfooting around it, since the stated intent is for Red Dragon to be S4. Hannibal will be caught, in time. It would be conspicuous for Hannibal to constantly evade capture but it would be dramatically inert for him to not evade capture.

She knows. She obliquely comments on the food and then they get straight down to business as Hannibal's apparent serial murderer kitchen cabinet.* I knews it, I knews she was a nutbar

The Angelmaker's visions of fire were tied to his illness (which I think was a brain tumor?) and likewise, the water and fire imagery that Will is seeing are likely due to his encephalitis.

I can't remember if the "eat the rude" thing was introduced in or pre-Silence but I feel like the character deteriorated progressively after that book, as Thomas Harris shifted perspective and filled in blanks to accommodate the public's fascination with him, and sought to make his consummately erudite demeanor an…

Well shit I'm sorry I saw this episode a day light cuz I totally called Hannibal playing puppetmaster with Du Maurier's attacker - http://www.avclub.com/artic…

the fever is a result of his brain freaking out over its swelling.

Yes, but Will also stated that the ripper, not Gideon, killed the missing arm man.

He doesn't seem to be that kind of crazy, imo

To be fair, she did seem really afraid for her life. She didn't seem like she was enjoying anything, up to and including keeping Chilton's lungs going.

@avclub-ddf39be6eb089c51636d28ea68254f5c:disqus wouldn't it make more sense to stuff the chicken in the duck and the duck in the turkey and the turkey in the person and then the person in a bigger person? Perperturducken

Fair point on the second para (though I would argue that Hannibal is mad, just exceptionally high-functioning). But what good would going to du Maurier really do in terms of practice blending in? The dude works with law enforcement and is known for his social events, I'm not sure what continually bluffing a…

If there's one criticism you could definitely level at this show, it's that the cast is overstuffed.

Also, and this is something that Fuller acknowledged via twitter during the east coast livetweet, but someone noticed that the pendulum in Will's mind is looking more tarnished and corroded. And this time, before full transition into Will's reenactment the pendulum vanished halfway into the last swing. I think that's…