I think the show makes a fantastic counter-part to True Detective. True Detective tackles its surreal material subtly, using it as an undercurrent to enhance the mood. Hannibal fully embraces it, though. It's a dreamy opera of gore.

It looks like DocSub and I are the only ones here who watch this show.

Last night's episode was yet again fantastic, probably one of the better ones in the series' (admittedly short) history. The opening was tremendously strong, and while I'm not usually one to be bothered by gore, they actually managed to make me cringe.

A few disparate points to hightlight: It's nice to see Will Graham starting to take a more proactive role, and I'm curious to see what his game plan is. Mads Mikkelsen got to deliver several very funny lines this week, on top of some of his best menacing work. The scene where Bedelia says goodbye in his office was possibly the scariest Hannibal Lecter's ever been for me, and he did so little. The subplot with Bedelia has not played out as I expected, and I'm hoping that's not the last we'll see of her.

There really is nothing else like this on television and it's the first show in a long time that I HAVE to watch live, I find the week-long wait so unbearable.

Every scene with Gina Torres was beautiful and heartbreaking. I so love the character they created with her, she's a fantastic addition whenever she's on the show.

Though that reminds me, I was surprised to see Jack and Bella actually smoke marijuana on camera. The only network show I remember watching that featured marijuana use was That 70's Show, and they had to be all coy about that with their language and were only able to have the post-toke scenes with them sitting in a haze. Was it allowed just because they were using a vaporizer or have the rules softened on that sort of thing?