Hannibal, S02E09- Shiizakana (Patreon)

Good morning, Patrons! In case you missed it, last night I did my first video review of Fear The Walking Dead, and posted it for free so I hope that you enjoy that. And today comes another show with lots of death and blood! It's time for the next installment of Hannibal. 

This was not one of my favorite episodes. I was negative more than I usually am, and had a lot of little nitpicks and issues and moments of incredulity. I think the premise just seemed so silly and ridiculous to me that it was really hard to let go of that feeling throughout, so I had problems with things that on another day I may not have minded at all. I think it was just too many things in one episode for me to let slide. 

Also there's this underlying feeling for me that people are acting kind of out of character. I know that Will and Hannibal are good manipulators, and I'm trying to figure out how much Will is saying because Hannibal wants him to, and how much is what he actually feels. Also, did Hannibal really try and kill Will, or did he want to goad Will into having to defend himself and take another life? I'm going to guess the latter. 

I hope that you all enjoy this episode, and I'm really excited about another small thing I will be doing in the next few weeks until Halloween: I'm going to do a weekly dramatic reading of a scary story. I haven't chosen the stories yet, but I just bought a bunch of books for a Halloween display in my office and it's just too fun of an idea. I won't start an iTunes feed for these: they are purely a Patron thing, so I will be uploading them into a password-protected Dropbox folder and you will be able to play directly from there or download them. 

Thank you again so much for pledging, everyone, and I will see you tomorrow with Jonathan Strange And Mr. Norrell!