A Second Helping of Hannibal

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Will's changing attitudes, Videodrome, and The Snake Pit.

Nice links:

• The Snake Pit
• The Narrative of Arthur Gordon Pym of Nantucket at Project Gutenberg
• Videodrome
• Audition
• Pimm's Cup recipe
• Insane video of bees mating

Here's how the aerial "bedlam" shot from The Snake Pit compares to the Eye Mural:

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Will's good lawyer, Freddie's outfit, and why Hannibal needs Jack in the FBI.

Nice links:

• Balthus Knot (correction: Matt referred to it as a Balthazar knot)
• Joel Cairo fondling his cane in The Maltese Falcon
• Henry Jenkins' essay "What's Behind the Glass?"
• Henry Jenkins' Textual Poachers
• The Kingpin
• Don Giovanni libretto
• New Deal art in New York City courthouses

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss what the eye mural really means.

Nice links:

• An osso bucco recipe
• Night of the Living Dead, because why not watch it again?

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Winston, cannibal dad jokes, and the Hannibal canon. Also, Beth digs into a single line: "I'm not talking to you Frederick. I want to talk to Dr. Lecter."

Nice links:

• How to pronounce "kaiseki"
• The Rabid Raccoon story on This American Life
• The final fight scene in Commando
• The Art of Matthew Pleva

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Daphne de Maurier, good therapy, and Burnt Offerings.

Nice links:

• Rebecca by Daphne du Maurier
• Du Maurier stories, including The Birds
• My Cousin Rachel by Daphne du Maurier
• Burnt Offerings

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss the non-murder of the week, Wendigo paper towels, and Daphne de Maurier. Part one of a two-parter.

• Wendigo Psychosis
• Larry Fessenden's Wendigo
• You Fit Into Me by Margaret Atwood
• Burnt Offerings
• Rebecca
• Daphne du Maurier stories including The Birds

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss The Cask of Amontillado, Beverly's absence, Jack's assholery, Nashville, and whether the chicken is chicken.

Compelling links:

• The Cask of Amontillado
• Ravenstag T-shirt
• Matt's Plaid Apron
• Matt's Plaid Mask
• Burnt Offerings

Two meals, a season apart:

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Chilton's tiny ladder, ku daal, pani puri, The Untouchables, High Anxiety, Blue, and Montaigne's letters. Also, does Hannibal understand his trajectory?

Compelling links:

• Pani Puri at Angel Indian Restaurant
• High Anxiety
• The Untouchables
• Sugar Cube scene in Blue
• The Letters of Montaigne
• The FAST test

Also: Jack's whiskey does not have antlers on the bottle. It seems to be called "McKnight's," but as far as we can tell it's not a real whiskey.

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss Cotard, Capgrass, Iberico ham, the body transfer illusion, Sour Grapes, and the name Sutcliffe.

Compelling links:

• Brain Games: The Marco Polo of neuroscience by John Colapinto
• Red Riding (film trilogy about Peter Sutcliffe, The Yorkshire Ripper)
• The Rubber Hand Illusion
• When the Air Hits Your Brain: Tales from Neurosurgery
• Sour Grapes (Wine forger documentary)
• Cotard: The "Walking Corpse Delusion" (BBC Radio interview)

Wherein Beth and Matt discuss their objections to the term "elevated horror," the difference between stunt casting and meta-casting, and the great William Friedkin documentary on #Shudder. Correction: Lance Henriksen plays Wally Schirra, one of the Mercury Seven, in The Right Stuff; he does not play an astronaut candidate who washes out.

• Invasion of the Body Snatchers
• Leap of Faith: William Friedkin on The Exorcist
• Lance Henriksen!
• The Right Stuff
• Joe Beef

And here's the scene from In Cold Blood in which the rain creates tears on Robert Blake's face: