Eat the Rudecast - A Podcast about Hannibal Lecter Cooper S. Beckett

We launch, headlong, into the breach and discuss our first encounters with Hannibal Lecter, and then take on the first episode of NBC's Hannibal.

We gripe about the “killer of the week” CSI aspects of this episode, while praising the dialog exchanges developing between our main characters.

We return stylistically to the first episode, with returning director David Slade, and spend the entire episode with Abigail Hobbes, resolving her feelings (and possible connection to) her father's murders.

In this difficult to pronounce episode, we finally stray from our scene by scene deconstruction in an attempt at brevity, and wind up with almost twice as much content. We disparage the KOW (Killer of the Week) but praise the familial theme of the episode as well as guest star Molly Shannon.

The first killer of the week that intrigues us also leads to the most implausible and hacky ending we've yet seen, but an entirely metaphorical killer plot introduces so many new and interesting threads.

In a conceptually awesome episode, we meet Anthony Hopkins AS Hannibal Lecter simulacrum Dr Abel Gideon played by the awesome Eddie Izzard. I defend my love of Dr Frederic Chilton to Ophilia. We also get a Clarice Starling proxy. There's a lot to like about this episode, unfortunately it's marred by poor writing, poor CGI,...