mrsdalgliesh

This. So much this.

Corey Stoll, as a bald man, is HOT. Smokin' hot. Corey Stoll, in the Commodore, is ridiculous. And that is a crime against me. Thank you, WigCop!

Everyone is doing a thorough job with the analysis/critique, so I'll just mention my favorite line -- which I caught only because I had the CC on (I'm working from memory, but I'm close): Duncan, dying, as Rachel protests: "My dear, I'm afraid you don't deserve me anymore." Slam.

Season 3 filming has begun! http://www.manchestereveningnews.co.uk/whats-on/whats-on-news/ripper-street-filming-manchester-matthew-7149339

Completely agree. I have no problem with the status of the relationship --- which, if I read "Three Hearts" correctly, is Deeks holding back because of fear that the intimacy will affect his job performance while maintaining his commitment to her (raccoons mate for life), That's fine, and probably more realistic (within the confines of a silly, escapist show). But the punching? STOP. anna0852 is right. I have a friend who works at CBS as she has assured me in the past that Linda Hunt is not leaving -- but it sure as hell looks like they've left the possibility open for her. It's a problem they created when they hired her in the first place -- Linda Hunt is irreplaceable. Full stop. It's interesting that they've already filmed the first two episodes of next season, which will give continuity for the [milder] cliffhanger. If Linda were leaving, they could be wrapping up Hetty's storyline (Nooooooo!) n those first two eps as well.

snookums, thank you for the explication of Bedelia's possible motivations/decisions. That works for me. I have only seen SotL and Red Dragon (and Manhunter, before either of them) and I haven't read the books --- but Mads has absolutely obliterated Anthony Hopkins from my idea of Hannibal and I didn't think that was possible. And despite the previous great actors who played Will, I'm all in with Hugh Dancy's portrayal. All Hail Fuller!

Thank goodness Alison gave me some recap as she talked to Victor, because though I recognized him, I couldn't remember who he was. The previews look hilarious. Strange, with all the creepiness and blood spattering and mechanical rape and lip sewing going on, the person I hate most of all is Angela. I think it's because she has no stake in any of this -- she's just nosy. Also, she has evil eyebrows. Can we have her meet up with Helena, please? Just when I'm thanking the show for always giving us little answer and clue breadcrumbs in every episode, I have to hear "Afghanistan" again. GAH. Just tell us already before we absolutely don't care anymore. Oh, wait.... Still, everything else is coming together nicely. I thought the scene with Gracie and Helena was really well done. Gracie was probably the only who could have convinced Helena to return. I'm just sorry it's not going to be as nice as Helena hopes. At least she had a little fun (thanks, Mark!). QUESTION: So Scott ID's the stem cells used for Cosima's cure as belonging to a female relative of hers (and the other clones?)? So...we're supposed to conclude that there's another clone, or another daughter, or what? Why does Delphine want it to be a secret?

I would like to see this, too. (They may be able to return to a MOTW format for some episodes, though I do hope they travel; Baltimore and DC are saturated with weird killers, it seems, but they should give some other areas a chance.)

Gah. I always DVR this show and start watching late enough that I can skip the commercials. This means that I am somehow typing this while my brain is scattered in exploded pieces all over the floor. I'll pick them up and see what coherent thoughts I can find... The score for this show is f**king brilliant. I might watch this episode again just to pick it apart. The moment at the dinner table, when Will pushed a bit too hard for keeping to the plan and "killing" Jack? There was some distinct dissonant timbre sh*t going on that raised my blood pressure, perfectly paralleling a viewer's thoughts ("No, he already suspects! Back off!). Fantastic. And yes, the percussive ticks and tocks. Evil. Some folks on Twitter were calling bullshit on Hannibal smelling Freddie, but I can go there -- and did -- and it was chilling. Horrible moment. Hugh Dancy did a beautiful thing from the moment Will saw Hannibal. We haven't seen pure Will in so long, but he was there from that moment until the end. Uncorrupted. Which, of course, made it all worse. Mads. I mean, like I'm really going to try to use words and punctuation to talk about that performance? Please. Alanna. Now that I'm ready to forgive her, she might be dead. But what a glorious, beautiful scene. All hail the cinematographer and visual effects crew. Bravo! "I might not call on you." Is that just a callback to SotL, or to the books? Gina Torres, ladies and gentlemen. So I guess Gillian did more than just the interrogation scene when she flew in for that quick filming day. Nice misdirect in the AV Club interview, Bryan! Ok, I need to get a dustpan and some superglue. Maybe more later.

Why am I still watching this show? Ok, that's rhetorical, because SPADER. But otherwise - GAH. The stupid -- it still burns. 1. FBI agents in a high-level secret op center don't have earwigs/communications abilities on a par with NCIS:LA? 2. Related to this, dickish authority guy has to rap on the glass wall of the walkway to get his subordinates' attention? 3. In the midst of this crisis, people have time to go meet on park benches? 4. Head of Blacklist group (notice how I have no idea what any of the names are?), post the first team death, doesn't know to check his car before he gets in? 5. Head of Blacklist group, now in a coma, has no family at all to visit him in the hospital? 6. Other FBI guy chokes a prisoner and....no follow up? What happened? Did the prisoner die? 7. Meera (they said her name once she was dead, so I learned it) -- didn't she start out as someone Red pulled into the team from the CIA? Shouldn't she have been so much better at her job than she was? What a patsy for Berlin's guy. 8. Red leaves Megan to finish off BadHubby on her own? I don't think so. He's not dead and Red knows it. I need to learn to put this on a DVR, read a quick recap for the salient plot points, then FF through it stopping only to watch and listen to Spader (and Alda, if he hangs around.)

And she deserved it. She's been pretty clueless. His disturbed sleep just before Alanna arrived shows it. When the scene opened, I got nervous, since that kind of sleep was part of Will's illness/manipulation by Lector. And it's just that kind of ambiguity that makes the show so fascinating. Looking at what those who have read the books/seen the later movies have written, I guess I can see why they "had" to have this done to Margot -- and I can also see how it brings the audience into a rage towards Mason that would maybe forgive Will if he threw Mason into the green screen pig buffet...but still.. That's just a horrible violation.

I know we've all said it before, but... This. Show. I knew Freddie wasn't dead, so that reveal didn't do much for me. On the other hand, the Will/Alanna conversation at his house? Fantastic. The only way to get Alanna to accept the truth is to put her in Will's place. It's both "You betrayed me" and "I love you" in the same moment. And again, this show. "It takes 9 mm shells. Buy a box. Find a range. Practice." as delivered by HD in that broken voice = "People care about you. I used to love you. I might still. Stop being an idiot." I don't want to talk about Margot and Mason. If Mason actually had a hysterectomy performed on Margot (or even an abortion), I think Bryan Fuller has -- for me, at any rate -- broken his vow. BTW, was this the most explicitly we've heard Hannibal confess? If Will were recording him, wouldn't he have evidence re: Abigail?

1. Someone needs to make me feel better about where this is going, fast. 2. No, Bryan Fuller, I will not you ruin Mahler 5 for me. I muted and read the captions. 3. In my market, the three way dream scene was followed by one of those heinous Geico commercials, but before I could mute it, the actor said, "huh" in a bemused tone of voice. And, really, that was the perfect commentary on what had just happened.

I know this is not exactly what "Hannibal in the Media" means, but... Here's an article on scientists using light pulses to "turn off" the brain.

This is exactly what I'm thinking. Though I was in doubt last week, I'm back to being sure that Will is in control of himself and his interactions with Hannibal (yes, he's still a tortured soul, but he was before any of this started). I think Will probably already sensed what Hannibal does as a psychiatrist but that his conversation with the Jeremy Davies character ("anyone can be trained") and finding out about CaveBear guy's past as a Hannibal patient confirmed his theory. In other words, NBC promo monkeys are framing things one way, while Fuller & Co are going another. Interesting that Will decided to reveal Dr.DuMaurier's visit to Hannibal at this point. Anyone have a theory as to that timing? So, if you're Jack and you're with Will (and that's where I think things are), do you decide that possibly eating a few cannibalistic meals are the price to pay for catching a serial killer?

Glorious gross Turducken crime scene. Starling (!) Cheesecloth Halanna sex. Zeller making amends with Will. Hannibal (ostensibly) stopping Will from killing someone. That last 'embrace.' I'm beat.

By erasing his entire identity other than the current legend, she leaves him a criminal. The only law enforcement person he can go to in the future who knows otherwise is Hetty. Upon rewatching (yes, sigh, I have just rewatched a CBS procedural), I think the conversation Deeks and Kensi have after the interrogation is the most important -- and, thank goodness, fairly straightforward. It makes the last exchange more tolerable. If you're Kensi, you can't really argue with a guy who says "I'm committed to you for life" (raccoons) "but I'm worried about being too close to you now because I might make a choice that violates my oath as a cop/agent" (knife return). I read an interview where ECO and/or DR said that they liked the fact that their couple would have to face the consequences of a relationship in the jobs they have. That's fine. But real adult couples do not communicate entirely in metaphors. It's just too clever. I hope they stop it. The box bit was funny, though. Does anyone know, offhand, in which episode the box first appeared on Kensi's desk? I imagine that was the first episode after the writers decided to play long ball with Deeks/Kensi.

Yes. This. I'm not watching this show for Deep Thotz. Let's either let them go at it like bunnies (or raccoons or whatever) or say nothing, let them gaze at each other during cases and we'll write the fic in our heads. Enough with the metaphors.

Oh my, yes. That's the second time the Kings have failed in setting up a foil for Kalinda. Although I appreciate the fact that when something's not working, they admit it, I wish -- like everyone here -- that they could figure out what to do with their most interesting character. My idea? Have her fall for a good person -- someone with a functioning moral compass, but also someone who does not judge. Kalinda wouldn't know what the hell to do with someone like that. The magical vagina would be useless and we'd have to see other sides of her.

As others have said, I'd watch the "Alicia and Diane Drinking" show every night. Other than that, I watched this episode for one thing only -- Alicia and Peter's scene in the kitchen -- and it did not disappoint. Having seen the preview, I wondered how Alicia would respond to Peter's "selfish bitch" accusation -- and thank you, writers/Julianna for that one moment where Alicia considered accepting the criticism. Because she would. But oh hallelujah, she kicked that thought to the curb and sent Peter into the gutter with it. Whoo Hoo!!! About. Damn. Time. ETA: JM did a great job with her collapse. That looked and felt exactly right. Been there, done that -- though without the kids to look in on me. I can't decide if that would have been a good thing or not.

This is part of what works. The place they live and work is chaos and they are knee deep in it. More than that, they revel in it more than they admit (this is certainly part of what Drake was telling Reid). It would be an exceptional relationship to survive that. What was in the note that Reid sent the councilwoman? Was it a note to meet him at the boxing match? If so, merylinkid may be right, because why else would she show up there? Sad for Jackson, but it made sense that Susan used him as much as anyone else to get her revenge and freedom. She's another strong woman damaged by that wretched time and place. One of the things S2 didn't do as well as S1 is balance the horrors with the lights of discovery -- and it's too bad, because that's one of the reasons the creators mentioned for setting the show at that point in time. At any rate, I'm still on board and so relieved there will be more to come.

This. HD did a great job of showing us Will as he realized how far Alanna's trust in Hannibal has gone. Having made that realization, however, Will did not look particularly anxious for her immediate well-being, and he's right: for now, Hannibal gains so much more by having Alanna in his bed, all her limbs attached. Jimmy and Brian should thank their lucky stars they are working for the FBI on this show and not for the Las Vegas PD on CSI. Those folks do All The Police Things, and our boys would have been the ones at Chilton's door.

milaxx, thank you! I've never heard that version and wanted to download it. Oh my. That could be sweet.

I am such a softie for these two. Deeks' "And there she is" is the new "I love you." It's like the old X-Files days -- I'll take any little crumb and write an entire fanfic (in my head). The Callen/Hanna chemistry was on display as well, and that's a good thing. OTOH, Hetty's decision making didn't make any sense:if they can remember that Sam posed as a sommelier, can't they remember her process for putting Deeks back in the field and otherwise evaluating him post-torture (from the beginning of *this* season, no less)? Not enough explosions, but maybe next week.

SimoneS, I agree. Boyd knows. He's gonna have to fight between his love for Ava and his desire to stay alive and free. And that's a story Justified ought to be telling, so there's hope for S6. I want to know who was singing our favorite song at the end of the episode. Was that the Patty Loveless version? So are we going to get a S6 that takes place over 2 weeks (or whatever time Raylan said he had before his move)? I've always expected that Raylan would leave Harlan alive -- because Boyd doesn't -- and after seeing Winona and baby, I hope I'm right. OTOH, as a northerner through and through (I served my time in TX but have been released), I can never quite wrap my head around the idea that anyone dreams of moving permanently to Florida. :-) Good riddance to this season. Not up to par, or even a bogie.