1. What in the hell is he wearing? 2. Why would Jack ever eat over there? 3. What circle of hell is the Mid-Atlantic that you can’t swing a cat without hitting two artistic-genius-psychopath-serial killers at once? 4. Why do you need a cane after you’ve been disemboweled? 5. Was Bedelia Du Maurier prescribing Thorazine…
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I just read the Hannibal pilot, available here, and then watched it (streaming on Amazon). It was written by Bryan Fuller, based on characters created by Thomas Harris, and it reminded me of The Nick Carraway problem, because Fuller and Harris don’t have it. Psychopaths are interesting, in a clinical way, because they look like…
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