Hannibal S02E13

Interesting clock-ticking score this episode - in the teaser, in this scene with Bella.

And we're also back to the piano. No more of the Japanese percussion.

This episode is almost a little too stylized.

"They know" - same thing Hannibal said to Garret Jacob Hobbes.

Goddamn I enjoy watching Mads Mikkelson fight.

If Alana gets killed I'm going to be so pissed.

Alana with the gun reminds me of Clarie with the gun in Buffalo Bill's house.

(I figured Abigail was alive. No shock there.)

"You were supposed to leave." "We couldn't leave without you."

The police have now been called to this address twice. Where are they??

Well this is just a bloodbath.

Well. I guess we'll see what happens next season?

WHAAAAAAAAT??? Of all the things I didn't see coming...

Hannibal S02E12

What's this piano music?

Gillian Anderson is so hot. Such a babe. Wow.

That jello fish dinner looks gross.

I love when Hannibal talks about God.

Why is the score so different this episode?

Hannibal would be such a catch if he weren't a people-eater.

Why does Will save Hannibal? Because Michael Pitt is an unpredictable psycho, where as Hannibal is calculating?

What IS that stuff?? I can't really understand what Hannibal is saying. Is that the point?

I would like a chart of all of Will's dogs and their names.

Michael Pitt would make a good Joker.

Winston wasn't having any of that.

How did Michael Pitt make a "m" sound without any lips?

So Hannibal broke Michael Pitt's neck, and he didn't die, and Michael Pitt isn't giving him up. Huh?

I love Margot's make-up! And her outfit.

So...is this still a friendship? What Will and Hannibal have?

Hannibal S02E11

I would like them to introduce some new female characters, given that they axed Beverly and have reduced Alana to little more than a sex object. And Freddie might be dead too.

Flaming guy on a wheel chair - doesn't that happen to Philip Seymour Hoffman's character in one of the Hannibal movies?

So Freddie's dead, too. So the only ladies left are Alana and Anna Chlumsky, who we haven't seen since she shot and killed Chilton.

Oh right! Margot! They introduced Margot.

Hannibal seems so amused by this situation with Margot and Will.

I read somewhere that Michael Pitt in this is channeling Jerry Horne and it's SO TRUE.

Who is this kid he's messing with?

I need a "Have a chocolate" gif ASAP. Get on it, tumblr.

I'm not sure what I think about the direction the show is taking with Hannibal becoming Will's murder mentor.

Alana is jealous of Will's relationship with Hannibal.

I'm surprised Alana doesn't already have a gun.

Hannibal seems really impatient with Michael Pitt. What's his endgame?

More mentions of Hannibal's sister.

"Did you kill her?" Was Will asking about Abigail or about Hannibal's sister? Because it sounded like the latter, but Hannibal answered the former.

Since when is Alana profiling killers at crime scenes?

Jack listens to Alana/Will and Hannibal/Will make their IRL subtweets in their profiles and he's like "I can't even."

What's this weird shot-reverse-shot ting they're doing?

"You saw part of her." Are you serious right now, Hannibal?

How many appointments has Hannibal had this episode? And what's his rate? He's making bank. (Are Will's sessions pro bono?)

Who's that???

Margot's eyelashes are amazing.

Will is not going to be happy about this. (And obviously Margot is upset, too.)

Is Alana just projecting onto Jack now? What is this scene? Jack has been doing like nothing for the past few episodes.

Oh good! Freddie's alive!

How did Will convince Jack to go along with this?

Hannibal S02E10

I hope they get around to addressing the Chilton murder soon...

And how are they going to explain this to Jack?

Oooohhh look how Hannibal gently dresses Will's wounds.

Gross.

So Hannibal and Will are in cahoots now? How are they going to play this

That's the best "This is my design" of  the series yet.

Will looks great in a scarf.

Oh my god, Freddi's cheekbones.

Is that Michael Pitt? It is!

Well that was an elaborate threat.

Weird little scene with the theremin, there.

I don't remember who shot Will. Jack?

Well this is an interesting sex scene. All kinds of interesting. (A gift from the slash gods? Among other things...)

I am again blown away that this is network television.

Why does Freddi suddenly believe Will about Hannibal?

I've never heard lesbianism referred to as "button-stitching"

Wasn't Hannibal's sister the rot of all his issues? Something in the Holocaust, maybe?

I love hearing Hannibal talk about lambs.

Is all this talk of boundaries some sort of sexual negotiation?

"We know where we are with each other" Uh huh.

That's all we needed to see? Hannibal wearing his clear suit in Freddi's room? (With a stag painting over the bed, no less)

I love this show. I love watching this show.

Surely Will would know better than to hold onto the skeleton suit. (I guess not.)

So in this season Will turns into the killer people were convinced he was by the end of last season?

Whaaaaat is happening?

I'm not sure how I feel about this.

"We'll make it together" is a great line. "You slice the ginger" is even better. But is that really Freddi??

This is the strangest dinner date ever.

Nice overlay of their faces at the end there.

I have no idea where this is going, but I anticipate it very much.

Hannibal S02E09

This show is so, so pretty.

This third opening scene with the truck driver has some very interesting shots, but I have no idea what that thing was.

"Adapt. Evolve. Become." Hmmm

Will's therapy session - I love these tightly-framed close-ups.

So this lady patient. (Margot?) What's her deal?

In Margot's therapy session there are no straight-on shots of Hannibal - close-up from above, medium shot in profile.

Haha. Hannibal's hat.

Is the stag Will's patronus? I think the stag is Will's patronus.

"A student of predators." I like the way that sounds.

It's really too bad there isn't a lady scientist anymore now that Beverly is dead. It's also too bad that she hasn't shown up in any dreams or visions.

I like this Margot character.

"Private carnage" - another good phrase.

"Typhoid and swans" - ANOTHER good phrase.

Maybe just stay inside and lock the door, Will.


STILL no fallout from the murder of Chilton. What gives??

Hannibal S02E08

Marry me, Mads.

That's one thing about eating fish - you can tell that it used to be a fish. (For better or worse...)

So is that it for Chilton? We don't get any fallout?

That little flashback exposition for Hannibal's patient was like a perfume commercial slash acid trip.

Alana, dear, that is NOT the only thing weirder than finding a woman in a horse.

This victim has shades of Silence of the Lambs - the chrysalis idea, the thing lodged in her throat...

Will walking into the stable looks like the Exorcist.

Wait, how did the killer get the bird in her chest?

Imagine if a medical doctor and his patient were playing games like Hannibal and will are playing. What would that be? Trying to diagnose each other, I suppose. I thought this train of thought would be funnier when it started.

This episode is very odd. I'm not sure how. I do wish there was some fallout from the murder of Chilton. That was kind of a big deal.

This parallel between kicked-in-the-head and his social worker and Will and Hannibal is a little too clear-cut.

Why is this an FBI case in the first place?

Oh. My heart actually hurts for this guy discovering all his animals gone.

The social worker is a little too straight-up sociopath.

What was the score of last season like? Was it also all this dissonant percussion?

"Is your social worker in that horse?"

"But you didn't deserve to kill him, Peter." Isn't that what you were going to do, Will? Kill the killer? Didn't you just say that doing bad things to bad people felt good? Is Peter different because he's "simple"?

They asked if the social worker was in the horse - they didn't ask if the social worker was dead.

I wondered why the image of Hannibal petting the sheep tickled me, and then I realized that a sheep is like a lamb!

Are Hannibal and Will going to start killing people righteously now together?

(Okay, I guess the clear parallel is all right because they address that it's a parallel.)

OMG. The way Hannibal put his hand on the back of Will's head/neck!!!!

Hannibal S02E07

Jack's eyebrows are really thin for a guy.

I have such a crush on Alana. Alana and Emma from Bates Mote. They are my TV lady cruches.

Oh yeah, I forgot that was Anna Chlumsky.

Will's cell is really dungeon-esque.

But what about Will's encephalitis? Isn't it still untreated?

"Is he safe?" "From me or for you?" Nice dialogue there.

So much of the architecture in this show is almost brutalist.

This show is so good!

I love the refrigerator lighting in this scene in Hannibal's kitchen. Ahhhhhh!

So now they think Chilton is the Ripper??

(This show has more doctors than House. (Almost. (Not really.)))

But, but...what??

Chilton can't be the Ripper. He's far too squeamish.

All these false arrests are going to make the FBI look pretty bad.

WHAT?? Well THAT'S not canon!

"I have to deal with you, and my feelings about you...You've changed me." "The friendship that we had is over." - SLASH GOLD right thurr.

I'm not crazy about Will's haircut but god damn does Hannibal have nice hair.

Hannibal S02E06

Hannibal's facial bone structure is amaaaazing.

Alana's hair is too bouncy.

"I'll give Alana Bloom your best" - was that a threat?

I do love Raul Esparza as Chilton.

Huh. I never realized that Chopsticks is a waltz.

Nooooooo! Don't do it, Alana!!

How did Hannibal make his money? As a suregon?

I'm getting a flashback of Ray Liotta eating his own brain.

(That dining room is not cobalt)

So why let Will off the hook (ha!) now?

Hannibal S02E05

Hannibal looks goooood in that sweater.

RIP Beverly

Of course this will just add fuel to Will's "Hannibal did it" fire.

Why are they letting Will see her body?

This episode is very oblique.

Alana Bloom is such a cutie.

This score is very Kabuki-esque. Is that in keeping with the Japanese titles of the episodes this season?

Hannibal S02E04

A three-part teaser: the fishing, the jail cell, the hive

I would be soooo pissed if my wife killed herself and Hannibal Lecter was her therapist and I found out Hannibal was a murderer.

The soundscape in this episode is very weird.

Is he going to get Chilton on his side??

"I'm supporting my wife." Cute.

This is so sad :(

Once again the only show that makes me squeamish.

Nice jail/dining room set piece.

Yeah lady, you're not acting suspicious AT ALL.

Oh. She's just confessing.

He'd better not eat her...

That is a nice hospital room.

Ohhhhh don't get caught, Beverly! You can't help Will if you're dead.

Hannibal looked suuuuuper menacing!

Hannibal S02E03

That is a very dramatically lit courtroom.

I bet the costumer for this show just loves dressing Hannibal so very much.

Cynthia Nixon is displeased.

We like the lawyer.

"You may not be guilty" is not the same as "You may be innocent."

We haven't seen her yet this season. Freddie.

That's a church hat, Freddie, not a court hat.

Alana Bloom is so cute.

"Stare-y and non-blinky" and "*adorable*" - lawyer guy is great!

Whose apartment was that?

Mads' lips are sooooo sexy.

Wait, so is Hannibal doing these murders? Or actually someone else?

According to Will it's someone who the bailiff would have thought of as a friend...

Is Abigail Hobbes the only named protagonist to have been murdered so far?

Hannibal S02E02

Not many shows make me wince. That first scene did.

Good on this guy for not running to the first person he sees for help.

Are we going to watch this guy try to escape just to see him recaptured and tortured? Whyyyyy

A cornfield on a cliff??

"I am the unreliable narrator of my own story."

Oh Hannibal. You are so strangely sexy.

I ship Will Graham and Hannibal big time. Second only to Reese & Finch in POI, maybe.

Starting an episode at the tail end of an intense conversation is interesting. I'm not immersed yet.

I think they could have done something more interesting with the opening credits.

Oh no. Is Gillian leaving the show? I would be so sad. She's like an extra little present whenever she shows up.

That's insulting. "You're not smart enough to figure this out yourself. You must have talked to Will."

Jack's hairline is asymmetrical and it's distracting.

I hope the forensic lady never gets kidnapped and need rescuing. That would be so trite. (And what's her name again??)

Hannibal tries his hand at Will's "Method Forensics"

Will is trying to play Hannibal, but what's the game?

These individual cell cages are weird. When would they ever have more than one person in one at once?

Will looks like he's wearing pajamas in that jumpsuit.

So now Hannibal's just as good as will at profiling killers?

Neat shot of the bodies in Hannibal's iris.

"You've never seen anything like this." "I'm sure I haven't." Ha ha.

So Hannibal added the artist to the artwork? Why? So he can one-up anyone whose handiwork overshadows his own?

Yet another therapist enters the picture. I've never known a show with so many therapists.

It's about time we get cooking!

They should do a cannibal edition of Top Chef or Iron Chef or Chopped or one of those shows.

Jack just referred a doctor to see her patient as a doctor. I feel like that's a faux pas.

This show is sooooo good!! Ugh!

I wonder if the FBI flags everyone who buys a clear plastic rain suit and booties. They should.

That's bullshit, Hannibal. You did not kill the killer for the killer's sake.

One does not plea innocent. One pleads not guilty.Will will plead innocent.

"Hannibal Lecter's therapist. What's that like?" hehehe

Maybe Gillian can help Will!

"The traumatized are unpredictable because we know we can survive." Hm.

Hannibal S02E01

Oh this show is so good.


Ugh, the cinematography...


TWELVE weeks earlier??


I've been saying this is the best show on network TV, but I think it goes beyond that. It's one of the best things on TV at all.


"I can't get you out of my head" SO MUCH SLASH POTENTIAL.


This score! The chimes! So good!


Hannibal is so impeccably dressed. Is that suit bespoke? (Probably)


"I got to be Will Graham today." This is like televisual poetry.


Gillian Anderson is goooorgeous.


Dr. Bloom reminds me of someone's aunt.


Will is such a cutie.


"I hear Hannibal's voice in the well of my mind." Beautiful.


Who are these inky beings? Were they in the first season?


I like her. I forget her name. She's kind of rude, or was last season, and I like that.


The sound of his handcuff chains is nice.


Great sound mixing/editing.