I'm actually more worried about Enlisted than Hannibal, even though Enlisted's ratings are (at least as I recall) slightly better than Hannibal's. Enlisted has carved out an audience for itself in a tough timeslot, and that audience is very male. That's the kind of niche show that tends to be renewed.

It is pretty common for stars of shows on the bubble to sign up for shows on other networks in second position, so… no.

Call me complacent, but I just don't think this show (or Enlisted) are getting canceled. It's a new reality, and "ratings" have almost nothing to do with whether shows get renewed or not.

Wait, when did he do this?!

I actually just had a conversation about this today with somebody who's trying to break into criticism and struggling to write about comedy, because what we laugh at is so subjective. So that was why it was on my mind.

That was pretty over-the-top sarcastic.

Most sources suggest that Millennials are those born between 1980 and 1995, which narrowly makes me one, which is kinda weird, even though I have a lot in common with the generational stereotype. But most studies have concluded they're more likely to believe in government as a source of at least decency.

Playing a 14-year-old somehow!

It's not the world's most original premise, no, but it's a good story, mostly well-told. Originality is overrated.

I actually think I brought Jim Treacher here.

I THINK they turn out to have a common ancestor, though, if you go back far enough. The French movie Les Revenants (which came out in 2004, I think, and was called They Came Back here) gave birth to The Returned. It also indirectly inspired the author of the American novel The Returned, which became ABC's Resurrection.

It's certainly not intended as a slam on Jay Ward.

They will. I have little to no fear of Hannibal being canceled before, say, season five.

MySpace is where the famous people have been social networking without telling any of us about it.

"Laying pipe" is a pretty common Hollywood term for exposition, back-story, etc. But, yes, it sounds like some other things.

Just relistened. He definitely says "'40s."

It pays not to think of them in terms of school grades (where C would, indeed, be average), but in terms of Rotten Tomatoes, where the divide between "good" and "bad" on our scale is between B- and C+. As such, we've used that narrow gap to be the gap between "recommend" and "do not recommend" for ages.

Community grading is coming back.

I would love to get rid of grades, but reviews without grades are actually read LESS than reviews with grades. People like the quick take on whether an episode was worth it or not.

Shows are graded against themselves. It is theoretically possible for Community to get a D and Big Bang to get an A and have the former be a better episode than the latter. Also, those reviews were written by different people, who have different opinions about things. Also, do not care about the grades, because I put…