Finally, Hannibal Season 3 starts to look a bit like the show I found so watchable in Seasons 1 and 2. However… most of the scenes with the new killer were fairly boring. There's no character there, just a lot of chewing the scenery.

A show that for 2 seasons engaged in compelling mind games descends into completely gratuitous torture porn. Rarely have I been so disappointed in a show that I used to enjoy.

As season 3 airs in Australia, I can stick with it in the knowledge that the show will be ending. But over the course of the opening episodes of the season, the show has shifted from an arty look at demented killers into a fairly tedious artiness about how everyone "reacts" to knowing what Hannibal did to them.

That last seen was electrifying. As for things going kablooey, a major part of why this show is so brilliant is there are so many things that COULD go kablooey, and you never know what's going to blow and when.

Wow. This show really knows how to make small moments have huge impact. When Elizabeth gave Betty her real name, I muttered "oh shit" under my breath because I knew for sure Betty was going to die.

Everything that's a bit wrong with this show: a plot that switches different "bad guys" in and out with no real clarity about what they want. I really don't care that much about Dyad/Brightborn/Neolution power struggles any more.

So I'm a couple of years behind, but… so riveting and brilliant. There were so many things that started to drop into place after hovering half the season, and then still didn't quite, leaving more for the season finale. Martha, Larrick, Paige the night-time snooper, Stan the dodgy car buyer, and especially the…

So, SO good. Philip's rage at his daughter respecting Jesus, but not him, was utterly compelling.

Well, I most definitely disagree with the notion that Alicia is a side player here. Just because it's her husband that's on trial does not mean that he's the focus. This is all about Alicia's reactions, and how different they are now compared to Season 1.

Go and read the Wikipedia article on "The Body", the list for that one is too long to set out here.

Actually, certain episodes were hailed as amongst the greatest in the history of television. Minor detail.

Oh, Oliver. Watching you lose what makes you you is going to be heartbreaking.

Wes is a lot more than 10 years old.

"That meddling kid" is not just any kid. He's one of the freakiest and most disturbing characters on television, and we still have no idea where he came from in the first place. What we thought we knew about him in Season 1 was thoroughly upended in Season 2.

It's not about what they deserve, it's what the law says they're entitled to. They're not talking about morality, but about the law.

I thought this was one of the more solidly entertaining episodes recently. Alicia's storyline raised interesting issues, and the goings-on elsewhere were credible rather than silly.

This episode has just aired in Australia, and I really enjoyed it. The interaction between Sherlock and his father was excellent.

It was still better than Babylon.

Awful. A horrible mash-up of different tones with cardboard non-characters, pathetic jokes around a simplistic description of terrorism and meaningless platitudes. Truth be told I haven't really been massively enthused by any of the 4 episodes before this one, but for a show that was always uneven this was down there…

Hmm. This was… well, it did have some of Darin Morgan's fine qualities. I felt it got better as it went. The first part was just a bit too much "hey, look we're going to be goofy!" all the time. I think Morgan's best episodes are still grounded in something substantial, a meaningful case, before they spin off into…