"I never feel guilty about eating anything."
― have a nice blood (mh), Sunday, 2 March 2014 20:14 (ten years ago) link
Why do I watch this? It's nauseating and ridiculous.
― painfully alive in a drugged and dying culture (DavidM), Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
TO FIND OUT WHO THE RIPPER IS
― j., Tuesday, 4 March 2014 23:59 (ten years ago) link
you watch this because part of you still loves yourself
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:12 (ten years ago) link
i just love plating
― j., Wednesday, 5 March 2014 00:17 (ten years ago) link
Argh, I'm not easily disturbed by gore and the like but that intro. How is a show this graphic on network TV.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 8 March 2014 03:11 (ten years ago) link
nbc barely counts as a network tbf
― Clay, Saturday, 8 March 2014 03:13 (ten years ago) link
The Following was renewed for a third season and I'll be upset if that awful piece of shit survives and this serial killer show doesn't get a third season.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 8 March 2014 04:06 (ten years ago) link
I felt pretty queasy.
Guessing Gillian had to go because of that other show she's about to be on + other commitments. Loved the ambiguity going on at the end of last season so it feels like an abrupt shift but her scene with Will was good so all is forgiven.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Saturday, 8 March 2014 04:07 (ten years ago) link
Gillian Anderson's scenes have been amazing these past two episodes but they didn't really advance the plot in any way except to allude to some past incident(s) and if she's gone for good, I don't even know why they bothered to bring her back this season at all. Of course, if she's not gone, she can come back to give us some closure on what she and Hannibal allude to all the time but otherwise, it was all a bit pointless (though a well-acted kind of pointlessness, I guess).
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 8 March 2014 04:35 (ten years ago) link
UGH SO GROSS
― reddening, Saturday, 8 March 2014 06:22 (ten years ago) link
That coldopen, sweet merciful Christ. They was basically The Human Centipede minus the anal fixation but with much more convincing effects. (But no nudity, 'cause heaven forbid.)
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 March 2014 07:09 (ten years ago) link
argh *cold open
― Simon H., Saturday, 8 March 2014 07:10 (ten years ago) link
I do like how the show is taking its time (in this case, at least three episodes) to get Will out of prison. I feel like most other shows would have freed him within the first episode of the new season.
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 8 March 2014 07:29 (ten years ago) link
xp my first inclination was to ask WHY did they have to show the flesh ripping -- why couldn't they just cut away and let the sound effects convey the horror? but then i had to admit it really wouldn't pack the same wallop, and seeing how much he suffered made me want him to survive the chase scene SO BADLY.
― reddening, Saturday, 8 March 2014 07:40 (ten years ago) link
"You're Hannibal Lecter's therapist. What's that like?"
― have a nice blood (mh), Saturday, 8 March 2014 15:12 (ten years ago) link
-the flesh rips on a beat where you're not expecting it! i really liked that-will is going to be in prison all series, i sort of hope
-it wd seem a weird conclusion to draw that anderson isn't going to be back; her withdrawal seems too precisely delimited for that
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 8 March 2014 23:37 (ten years ago) link
--the Promotional Consideration Furnished By Apple stuff felt really intrusive
--everyone acts with their shoulders, in this show. the exact limits to will's slump, the exact set of the investigator's. hannibal a sort of curious-animal thing. fishburne in his chair talking to (an investigator? his therapist?) -- one wonders if fuller is going around going 'no, like this, see'
--one enjoys beverly katz getting to do something, instigate things; it's fun that people's roles in the action have shifted so much, as opposed to their merely interpersonal dynamics
--for a second i was worried they wouldn't bother to explain the mural's ~symbolism~ but, oh, no
--this episode had a really bad script; characters explaining the last episode and their motivations to each other, all the time: the scene with katz and the director maybe the worst, though i did like:
(while not sitting in chair) "they've even ordered a psych eval to determine my comptentency to sit in this chair"
"what do you want me to do?"
(as he sits down) "... we didn't have this conversation"
--hannibal's plastic suit is interesting: like, it now functions as sinister comedy, whereas if we'd not been built to it it would look purely ridiculous (this is the third time we've seen it, right, and the first full shot?)
--"i love your work" !!!
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Saturday, 8 March 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
hannibal still has to kill her obv xp re: anderson
― Clay, Saturday, 8 March 2014 23:41 (ten years ago) link
It should be against the law to kill a Gillian Anderson character. My TV kinda sucks - what did Hannibal pick up at her place?
― Murgatroid, Saturday, 8 March 2014 23:56 (ten years ago) link
Bottle of perfume, I think.
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 9 March 2014 01:00 (ten years ago) link
that cold open was excruciating, jezus
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 08:45 (ten years ago) link
also pretty sure i am going to hell for salivating over human leg osso bucco but goddamn the end result looked ridic appetizing
i hate/love this show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 08:47 (ten years ago) link
Ha ha! It looked so much more appertising than his usual poncy nouvelle cuisine crap.
― xelab, Sunday, 9 March 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
idk if that's an apt summary of what he cooks, you know
i was going to make osso bucco next weekend but i just, i don't know anymore
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 9 March 2014 12:23 (ten years ago) link
also i feel like it was a shame he didn't make risotto milanese with it because i felt deprived of squeamish moments involving marrow
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 9 March 2014 12:24 (ten years ago) link
the musical cue with the leg, though! this show.
does he ever just have a sandwich
― j., Sunday, 9 March 2014 13:03 (ten years ago) link
i feel like the 'protein scramble' from ep one or two was meant to establish that he also ate food without napkins and silverware, yes
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Sunday, 9 March 2014 14:16 (ten years ago) link
he was on the road there
coulda just eaten a gas station burrito but no, he's very particular about what he puts into his body
sandwiches are nice, you can put them into your body
― j., Sunday, 9 March 2014 14:26 (ten years ago) link
i love the food design etc in this show. everything makes me hungry, even when they show what/who is in the dish lol. jose andres is doing awesome work consulting for this show
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 9 March 2014 14:42 (ten years ago) link
This continues to be ludicrous and ravishing in equal measures. It would have to go pretty far down the shitter for me not to continue watching for the art direction and Mikkelsen.
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Wednesday, 12 March 2014 00:41 (ten years ago) link
There was Osse Bucco in the cafeteria today. It damn near made me sick. Why do I watch this show?
Oh yeah, because it's the best show on tv...
― Frederik B, Thursday, 13 March 2014 13:51 (ten years ago) link
lol oh no :/
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 13 March 2014 14:05 (ten years ago) link
wow g. anderson was skeeered
c. nixon seems… off
― j., Friday, 14 March 2014 23:27 (ten years ago) link
This show is so abstractly pretty I had no problem eating a roast chicken dinner during the "Ooh he's making angels!" bits (ages ago for you guys prob, I live in NZ)
― sonic thedgehod (albvivertine), Saturday, 15 March 2014 00:16 (ten years ago) link
Was Cynthia Nixon's character aware of the judge's murder beforehand? It looked like she was surprised for a split second that the judge was hung with his heart and brain out on display and then right after went right into chastising Jack for defending Will. She must be used to that sort of display!
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Saturday, 15 March 2014 03:03 (ten years ago) link
So has anyone noticed the sheer glee they're having in putting Hannibal Lecter's dialogue from the movies in Will's mouth this season? "You want to know how he's choosing them" (from Manhunter), "[Dr. Lecter] doesn't want me dwelling on anything morbid" (from Silence), and I noticed a third one but it's slipped my mind at the moment.
― CAROUSEL! CAROUSEL! (Telephone thing), Saturday, 15 March 2014 05:06 (ten years ago) link
Favorite moment: Hannibal entering the courtroom to testify, shot from angles where his face is obscured by the backlight. He really looked like a demon in those shots.
Also, I have no idea who is actually comitting the gun-murders. I mean, I have a theory, as every time I've had doubts on who has killed whom, it's always been Hannibal. But I constantly think 'well, maybe there's something else going on, he seemed so sad when he discussed the case with Will...'
― Frederik B, Sunday, 16 March 2014 16:08 (ten years ago) link
it's Hannibal.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Sunday, 16 March 2014 17:21 (ten years ago) link
man when is someone gonna kill dr. chilton already
― j., Monday, 17 March 2014 01:32 (ten years ago) link
I like how they've expanded and shuffled the backstory of the books around but I doubt they're gonna stray from the broad strokes and kill a character like Chilton early.
― Quinoa Phoenix (latebloomer), Monday, 17 March 2014 01:37 (ten years ago) link
What an unwieldy sentence
I keep thinking how great it'd be if he died, as well.
― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 17 March 2014 01:44 (ten years ago) link
No, please don't kill Raul Esparza. Mmm.
― Herbie Handcock (Murgatroid), Monday, 17 March 2014 03:27 (ten years ago) link
It's difficult, as I really like the character on the show. He's just such an obnoxious presence that you want _something_ bad to happen to him.
― have a nice blood (mh), Monday, 17 March 2014 14:04 (ten years ago) link
hee hee, he's already had a serial killer pull his own organs out of him while he consciously, helplessly looks on, and yet i agree it WASN'T ENOUGH.
― reddening, Monday, 17 March 2014 17:30 (ten years ago) link
he bounced back from that pretty fast, indicates questionable personality
― j., Monday, 17 March 2014 17:34 (ten years ago) link
He's a ridiculous character, he was like a Bond villain sitting in the dock!
― I wish to incorporate disco into my small business (chap), Tuesday, 18 March 2014 02:33 (ten years ago) link
The use of the "Della sua pace" aria from Don Giovanni was seriously badass, and one of the only uses of opera in pop culture I've seen that actually pays attention to the libretto. Respect.
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 18 March 2014 09:31 (ten years ago) link