Dana Leigh Brand

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I like that Hannibal is all the way to the actual Red Dragon storyline, and I love the way they’re doing it, but you know what—it definitely feels like a coda. It’s such a meaty, fully fleshed-out plot that it’s just the perfect stopping place should the story ever need to stop. So, here’s hoping they wrap it up well and don’t do any stupid cliffhanger crap.

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With “Contorno,” Hannibal stops reflecting on its past traumas and gives us a bit of forward momentum. It’s counter-productive to call this episode weird, but I was so enjoying all the psychological interludes that plot business begins to feel strange simply by its lack of Hannibal‘s patented weirdness.


I’ll keep this short because I’ve about hit my limit with Supernatural. While the series has a standard pattern of character deaths and is good at twisting modern mythologies in interesting ways, the one-two punch of weirdly reinterpreting classic literature with brutally killing the best character they had is too much.


If Age of Ultron didn’t do it for you, Agents of SHIELD is still amazing to pick up the slack. It’s been a crazy week in the MCU. Rather than having to suffer joltingly through lame tie-ins or forced references, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D. was perfectly content to keep doing its own thing in “Scars.”


Where has this stuff been all season, Supernatural? Seriously. Even the other episodes with Claire Novak have been hit or miss, but this one is a definite hit. It not only pokes at Judeo-Christian mythology, it addresses some long-standing consequences of the boys’ actions in a careful and contemplative way.