[Spike Lee approvingly retweets Scrappy Doo]

This is my dim sum.

Come for the serial killers, stay for the equivalent of Annie Liebowitz directing a Mad Men preview.

Can't you just watch the show with DeviantArt open?

I dunno, that seems like pretty open-and-shut insanity to me. Which would mean institutionalized and never working in law enforcement again, though, so not much better.

I feel like a character like that would, Frank Grimes-like, not be long for this world.
"Look at me! Hi, I'm a pretentious, mumbly murderer, just like Hannibal Lecter! Give me your awe! Oooh, nothing I say makes sense but nobody minds! I'm staring into space for minutes at a time, give me a spinoff!"

I will say this had more actually happen in it than the premiere, which was a guy getting killed after 58 minutes worth of music video.

Sure, it might offend a few of the bluenoses with its cocky stride and musky odors.

Dear Mr. Fuller,
It has come to our attention that the treatment of your program's writing staff may be in violation of their contracts. For instance, Mr. Carl Mayhew has, for the past seven months, been in a semi-catatonic state and been entirely silent except for occasionally mumbling "Why would it have teeth THERE?…

I imagine it's a prisoner's dilemma-type thing where they're told whoever can screw up the other ones' minds the most gets to leave.

I'm similarly wondering if/how they're going to use Red Dragon plot elements they've already referenced. Like, is Freddie going to die some other way, or not at all, or are they going to somehow find a way to make it more over-the-top?

Similarly, my Will/Sonya Cross from "The Bridge" ship is Sonyagraham.

A Beautiful Mind Palace.

Baby Mads looked weirdly like a buff Jamie Bell.

Since Hannibal put Will down, he has definitely been out doin' in his head.

OH MY GOD, IT'S STAGENSTEIN'S MONSTER.

The fact that no head ever emerged was what really put it over the edge for me. It kept it from ever really resembling anything of this world.

Vaya con dios, Sad Rory Gilmore. We hope you found peace somewhere.

Except instead of committing suicide by cop he'd somehow get them all to shoot each other while he walked away, possibly with his hands in his pockets just to be a troll.

What gets me about the Mason Verger scene, more than the violence, is that it represents the full extent of Hannibal's corrupting influence. He even made a bunch of adorable strays complicit in what he does.