rip Pazzi, barely knew ya
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 3 July 2015 16:59 (eight years ago) link
Felt like an almost perfunctory thing considering it was exactly what happened in the book/film. Good turn to have Jack Crawford immediately wallop him.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Friday, 3 July 2015 17:01 (eight years ago) link
Hannibal's little grin when he admits he called Verger's hotline just for fun was bewitching
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 3 July 2015 18:04 (eight years ago) link
and Hannibal, for once, being seen in the act by Jack is such a great moment. cleaning off his knife, kind of glancing down at his friend seeing him as he really is
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 3 July 2015 18:06 (eight years ago) link
"night and day must have been the same in the end" about Jack's wife
ties right back to Chiyo saying that night is a different world
― Upright Mammal (mh), Friday, 3 July 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link
I am an episode behind but have we talked about how Joe Anderson has turned Mason Verger into Jim Carrey's Grinch
i hate it so much
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 5 July 2015 17:59 (eight years ago) link
it's a bit... offthis season feels much more abstract and campy than in the past but still excellent
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Sunday, 5 July 2015 18:11 (eight years ago) link
I love this season so far. Really appreciate what the show has done with Hannibal's backstory. The "origin" of his cannibslism as depicted in Hannibal the book and Hannibal Rising was pretty silly and defanged the character somewhat.
I'm fine with Anderson as Verger, he seems to be having fun gnawing the scenery.
― Hell Books (latebloomer), Monday, 6 July 2015 00:10 (eight years ago) link
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, July 5, 2015 1:59 PM (9 hours ago)
otm.his makeup sux too, i hate how the top half of his face is just normal handsome guy. gary oldman's verger in the movie was so grotesque and memorable and it seems like a weird lapse on the show's part to just do a pale imitation of him, especially after successfully reimagining so many other characters.
― slam dunk, Monday, 6 July 2015 04:07 (eight years ago) link
https://fkrbzm.files.wordpress.com/2014/01/7fcfd-tumblr_m1ytav39bx1r3bp1do1_500255b1255d.gif
― slam dunk, Monday, 6 July 2015 04:12 (eight years ago) link
maybe he got his skin grafts in 2015 and the technology is just better now
tbh I am going to blame people for having watched a live action Dr. Seuss adaptation if that's in yr heads :)
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 6 July 2015 14:15 (eight years ago) link
http://99percentinvisible.org/episode/all-in-your-head/
^ episode about the guy who does the music for Hannibal and how he's fucking with us all.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 6 July 2015 14:31 (eight years ago) link
imo Brian Reitzell has a pretty impressive resume outside of Hannibal!
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 6 July 2015 15:28 (eight years ago) link
all the Chiyoh + Will scenes are terrible - not sure whether it's the writing or the acting that's off but either way, feels like the show is dragging its feet a bit until Hannibal gets caught. Like what was the point of throwing Will out of the train again?
lol @ Mason Verger talking about Alana sucking Hannibal's dick though. show's ability to get off-colour jokes on network tv never fails to amuse.
the Kubrick homage during the Hannibal beatdown scene was a nice touch.
― Roz, Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:06 (eight years ago) link
such a ridiculous joke and it's like the network didn't even pay attention
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 01:37 (eight years ago) link
i feel like i want to have gifs of about half of the exchanges in this show but with the characters adding BOOM to things at the end
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 7 July 2015 14:48 (eight years ago) link
This line from the most recent Previously TV recap cracked me up
Before I begin -- does anyone else think Joe Anderson's Mason Verger looks like a Greg Kinnear someone left on the radiator? Just me? Okay.
― tokyo rosemary, Sunday, 12 July 2015 23:30 (eight years ago) link
omg so otm
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 12 July 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
amazon and netflix passed on this btw.
― slam dunk, Monday, 13 July 2015 01:21 (eight years ago) link
R I P
― Spottie, Monday, 13 July 2015 01:32 (eight years ago) link
cast released from contracts too
― Clay, Monday, 13 July 2015 01:43 (eight years ago) link
Not cool
― like a giraffe of nah (forksclovetofu), Monday, 13 July 2015 07:58 (eight years ago) link
can't wait until the reveal that they knew it was coming and Hannibal actually kills half the cast mid-season
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 13 July 2015 14:05 (eight years ago) link
lol
afaik they wrote this season's ending (as with all prior season endings) with the idea that it could be a final, closed ending. like if they'd gotten canceled last time around that wouldve been deeply awful but it sure as fuck would've been a concrete ending (i.e. "they're all fuckin dead i guess :[")
― slothroprhymes, Monday, 13 July 2015 14:44 (eight years ago) link
I'm really starting to wonder if there's anything to that roman diet Bedelia is on
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 13 July 2015 14:56 (eight years ago) link
i thought he was feeding her to eat her.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Monday, 13 July 2015 22:21 (eight years ago) link
but maybe she just likes escargot
yeah, I meant I wonder if it really does make meat taste better if you feed them that diet :D
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 14 July 2015 14:23 (eight years ago) link
buried on Saturdays, effective immediately. that's just cruel.
― velcoro pharmacy & provisions (slothroprhymes), Wednesday, 15 July 2015 03:14 (eight years ago) link
Holy shit
A+ episode
― latebloomer, Sunday, 19 July 2015 06:11 (eight years ago) link
why was alana helping verger??
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 03:20 (eight years ago) link
you guys i'm starting to think this show might be a little messed up
― j., Monday, 20 July 2015 05:25 (eight years ago) link
mason or margot?
she admitted she wanted hannibal to be located and hoped the fbi/jack would beat verger to the punch after watching hannibal squirm but eventually stopped short when she realized mason was about to get his revenge
― Upright Mammal (mh), Monday, 20 July 2015 22:59 (eight years ago) link
And there was also an eel.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Monday, 20 July 2015 23:37 (eight years ago) link
yes, and the eel
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 00:01 (eight years ago) link
Way to go, eel!!
Got Season 2 from the library so rewatching & catching up on episodes I missed.
― tokyo rosemary, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:35 (eight years ago) link
episodes six and seven seemed a remarkable step up, a falling into groove, idk. haha tho that apparently next week we're doing the police procedural thing again!!
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only worked out this week that 'cordell' is the guy from the last episodes of true detective
i really liked mason verger's appearance in this because he reminds me of stephen king. also, i have v much enjoyed the higher image qualift i chose to watch this episode in
What To Do With Jack seems like it was a big problem this season -- like, they didn't know if fishburne was coming back, i guess? he seemed: exciseable. why did the crooked italian cop lie to mason about his death? this seemed like an artifact of an earlier draft, or something, where his return would be more crucially timed--likewise, letting the audience see how chiyoh saving him played out before going back to maryland.
intercutting between facial transplant / pig caesarean = maybe the most death metal what-are-we-looking-at moment yet, kudos
what's with the book of equations hannibal was looking at?
i wondered if they were going to have hannibal surrender himself--then he did! i also saw the pig thing coming, this was all p pleasingly predictable
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:39 (eight years ago) link
it's, like, the best vertigo comic ever
i got the impression that the italian cop left his posse to take care of jack while he contacted verger's people, and he probably delivered the "got hannibal and graham, crawford is dead" message not knowing his lieutenants were killed.
on twitter, fuller mentioned the equations are hannibal trying to come up with a way to turn back time. don't think that was necessarily choreographed in the show and it was just a really unrealized artistic turn that i don't know fits, but it's poetic? guess he really wanted to unbreak that teacup.
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:45 (eight years ago) link
what like he's gonna eat an incidental fringe character and absorb their powers
― j., Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:50 (eight years ago) link
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, July 21, 2015 3:39 PM (13 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
That is so otm.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:53 (eight years ago) link
You guys read Cleolinda's recaps on this show, right? She gets way deep into the symbolism, etc. They are so good. She had to stop halfway through last season, but has picked up this one and has the first two up. http://cleolinda.livejournal.com/
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:54 (eight years ago) link
xps re equations they are him trying do determine a way, through like, astrophysics and other absurdly complicated math, for his dead sister mischa to come back to life in the world. its explicitly stated in the hannibal novel (along with the details of how mischa died and was eaten) and alluded to in much more subtle fashion here
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 15:55 (eight years ago) link
if I really like this series should I read the books, and in what order?
― Upright Mammal (mh), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:10 (eight years ago) link
red dragon and silence of the lambs are solid, and you could really read them in any order.
hannibal is...ok for the most part, but it doubles down on the overwrought prose that is always a thomas harris issue and after the climax at the verger estate, which proceeds much as it does in the show but w/ clarice starling, it has a really perverse resolution that really makes zero sense.
as for hannibal rising, don't even try. its so blatantly a boat payment book and i didnt finish it
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:15 (eight years ago) link
haven't read any of them but my understanding is silence's success as a film kinda warped harris as a writer and that only red dragon and silence of the lambs are worth reading but that they are very much worth reading
― balls, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:18 (eight years ago) link
like he's a great plotter, comes up with intriguing villains that have tastes in art/music prob very similar to harris's own, and clarice starling is a justly iconic character even just as her book self (in silence, at least), but in addition to his prose problems he also can't write dialogue for shit unless it comes out of lecter's mouth
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:20 (eight years ago) link
xp thats basically accurate. he sold movie rights to both hannibal and hannibal rising before either manuscript was even close to finished and doesnt seem to give much of a shit about writing
― slothroprhymes, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 16:21 (eight years ago) link
Agree re: Red Dragon, which I read recently because of this series and enjoyed. I read Silence of the Lambs in college and it scared the bejesus out of me, even though I'd already seen and developed a deep and abiding love of the movie at that point.
― from batman to balloon dog (carl agatha), Tuesday, 21 July 2015 17:53 (eight years ago) link
yeah the first i heard of him was all my fellow stephen king fan friends telling me i had to read it, it was the scariest thing they've ever read, and me being all 'i don't read stephen king anymore, i only read KAFKA now'
― balls, Tuesday, 21 July 2015 18:07 (eight years ago) link