I'm super excited for next season, for reasons, but I'm hoping it doesn't disappoint the way Coven did.

With Hannibal there's also the fact that I just really love to watch Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen interact.

I'm hoping it doesn't disappoint the way Coven did.

Come on! The hats! When will we ever see such splendid hatdom again.

I thought the ending of it punked out not least of all because...let me start from the beginning.

AHS is my sister's favourite show bar Breaking Bad. By season 3 I remember I can ask Tim for things. "Can you sign a mug I'll buy and a script for her?" "Sure." [time passes] "When can I get the script and the mug signed?" "Oh, John [go John!] has the script in New Orleans being signed by the cast." Okay, I can wait.

Eventually I go by their offices on the lot and am standing outside the writer's room waiting for someone to notice me.

"Here's how we'll end it then--Cordelia is the prime, and Fiona comes back just as Cordelia, Zoe, and Queenie are establishing a new coven with girls from all over the world and kills them all. Final conflict--mother/daughter, not voodoo/witchcraft or black/white."

I almost swallowed my tongue. I was so fucking excited. I didn't even tell Tim I heard it for weeks. This was just after the episode where Queenie got shot, and the most Tim did was tell me that she wasn't dead, and how he'd have directed the scene where she'd killed the husband. BUT THE REST. I liked what we got--I loved what we didn't.

My sister loved the gift, incidentally. Although I don't think John got Gabby's signature, which I would really have liked. But all the other women were there.

t /A Very AHS Christmas

it also doesn't have the same sense of humor Wonderfalls had.

Oh, I think it does when you adjust for context. Same goes for AHS and Glee.

JZ, that story is just... wow. As bad as I feel for those kids, I really hope they never procreate.

I thought it was interesting that MCH could play the difference between"repressed emotions"(David Fisher) and "Absence of emotion" like Dexter.(and, yes Angel Baptista was a good police detective.) Yeah, Aurelia.

Oh, I think it does when you adjust for context. Same goes for AHS and Glee.

But on Wonderfalls and those shows, the cast is on it, too, not just the audience. Although I guess Hannibal has a twisted sense of humor, and Will is sort of developing one.

Come on! The hats! When will we ever see such splendid hatdom again.

The wardrobe was great. The plot arc devolved into something completely campy and absurd, and I don't think it ended up making any sort of point about anything, except to maybe show off Ryan Murphy's mommy issues. I was disappointed because I would have loved to see some real commentary about women and power, and instead I got a giant bitch fight with dicey racial commentary.

the Mentalist:

Jane would be in So much trouble in real life.

He literally got away with murder. Not to mention kidnapping and torture. So no reason for the show get realistic about consequences now. Even though I expected, I'm pissed that the show got him and Lisbon together. I really was hoping that after his futzing around for (How long - ten years?) that Lisbon would have moved on. ( I know it was six seasons, but the show was pretty cavalier about "six months later" and "2 years later". Plus I seem to remember it started with Jane already having been a consultant for some time.)

On second thought, I'm not sure Jane *would* be in serious trouble in real life. A (probably) rich apolitical non-Muslim white guy with FBI connections? As long has he did not get unsympathetic press, he might well skate with a token punishment - maybe with requirements for therapy (which Jane totally needs).

I loved that Jane said, "It just makes me happy to be able to say that" and seemed to honestly let it go.

I also love that he actually hurt his ankle jumping the fence.

Nice touch, that.

I have never seen any romantic chemistry between them. I can see him thinking he's in love with her, but...ugh. That could be a shark-jump moment if they get and stay together.