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Hi everyone. I'm Marie Vigouroux.
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And I'm Jeremy Greer.
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And this is Rude Eats, a delicious podcast
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about the NBC show Hannibal.
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Jake Lionheart (intro music): I want Will Graham, I really do
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and I think that we could have some fun. Then you can do
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anything you like. I might even go and help you catch the
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Shrike. I want Will Graham, I want that man for every meal and
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on demand. His mind shines and his body's cut. I know that he
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works for the FBI, but what other man has pure empathy and
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the ability to see my mind. Jack. What other thing have I
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ever asked you for besides never looking into my pantry? And I
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won't get that. Damn. I want Will Graham. I want him so and
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he really doesn't need to know what's in my meals or on my
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mind. I just want Will Graham to be mine. I want him, and I want
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him now. I said before, I don't care how. I'll give him tests.
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He'll draw a clock, and then his dark desires I will unlock.
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We'll be together, Willll and me. We'll throw some brand in
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the parties. We'll cut the flesh. We'll cook the meat.
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He'll eat the food just like me. Give me goddamn Will Graham.
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Hey Mary,
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Hi Jeremy. We're here. Our first episode of
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rude eats about Hannibal. What episode are we covering today?
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Well, today we're covering season one, episode one,
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aperitif.
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Can you say apéritif, Jeremy?
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Apéritif? Apéritif.
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Yes. Perfect, perfect, perfect.
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I can roll an R. I just don't know when I should do
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it appropriately. That's That's my issue.
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Yeah, I think the issue with French is that
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it's not even a rolled R, like, it's a - it comes from the back
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of the throat, like the back of the mouth. So it's a bit of a
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weird one, which means that I cannot do my R's in Spanish,
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because it's just not the same thing. And a lot of French
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people have trouble with that.
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I took French in high school and went to a state
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competition because I was apparently that good at French.
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But now, now it is all
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I'm excited to get into this. Why don't you
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describe which episode we're doing?
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So the description for this episode is:
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"As the FBI investigates the disappearance of college
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students, Jack Crawford recruits a criminal profiler, Will Graham
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and a brilliant psychiatrist and a brilliant psychiatrist, Dr
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Hannibal Lecter, who is secretly a serial killer and a cannibal."
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Ooh
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Sets the tone right? So this episode was
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written by Brian Fuller, directed by David Slade, and it
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originally aired on April 4, 2013
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Are you familiar with - so I guess first off, I
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want to direct everybody to listen to our trailer slash
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introduction, so that they can get a kind of a history of my
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relationship with Hannibal, as well as Mary's lack of
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relationship with everything Hannibal. But just to sum it up
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very quickly, I'm a huge fan. I've seen this show like three
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times. I've read the books multiple times. I've seen all of
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the movies. I'm way into this fandom, and Mary knows
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absolutely nothing about it.
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Nothing at all, nothing apart from the fact
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that, like, basically, what's in this in this description is what
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I know. He's a serial killer and a cannibal. That's it.
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Exciting. Do you have any experience with Brian
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fuller shows? That was, I forgot to ask you that in the in the
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introduction, so, but I was curious if you had watched Dead
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Like Me, or pushing daisies or anything like that.
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Nope.
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Okay.
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I haven't watched anything, but I do know
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- so I know of his fandom and the people who follow his work,
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and so that, because I'm just, like, immersed in fandom, per
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se, and that's, that's how I know of him, and I know that
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It's interesting, because the shows that I've seen
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he's quite beloved by the people who follow his work. So very
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him - that I have seen from him specifically, like Dead Like Me
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excited about that.
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Yeah. I mean, you know, this is - I find that
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or Wonder Falls, they have this kind of almost wacky sensibility
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about death, or serious subjects, like Dead Like Me is
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whenever I start watching shows like this, I'm like, Okay, I
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about a young girl who dies and becomes a Reaper. And imagine a
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teenager who doesn't like want to be a Reaper, but it has gets
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bossed around by Mandy Patinkin, who is the boss Reaper. So it's
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very It's very funny and silly, and a lot of his shows are like
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need to watch other things that this person has done. So I feel
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that. Like Pushing Daisies has this kind of wacky, zany thing
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over a layer of very emotional and kind of deep stuff. And it's
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such a change with Hannibal, which has none of that. Hannibal
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like this is going to open the door to that. But I think I was,
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is self serious to the point of almost this detriment, in some
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cases.
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Yeah, it's a show that I like a lot, that it also
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the thing is, I was too young for Pushing Daisies, and I just
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never really went back to it.
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didn't finish. I don't know why. I just watched, I watched I
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watched the first, like, probably 10 episodes. I was
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like, This is great. I should watch more. And it never did. So
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-
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Ah, man!
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We should talk about the format of the show a
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little bit. How are we, how are we going to structure our
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episodes going forward?
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Right! So we are going to start with our
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little introductions, basically the same way that we did here.
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Then we're going to talk a little bit also about, like the
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title of the episode, what it means, right? Because it seems,
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again, from what I know, it seems, that every title in
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season one is like a course for a meal. We're going to talk also
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a little bit about possibly a theme for the episode, and then
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we're going to do a beat by beat, where we're going to go
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through basically everything that happens in the episode,
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what we thought about it, and linking it back to the theme
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that we identified at the beginning.
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Yeah.
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And then we have probably my favorite part
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of the episode at the very end. Do you want to tell us about
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that?
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It's the review section we're going to we're
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going to review every episode and give it a star rating. Uh,
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spoiler, mine'sprobably just gonna be four stars every single
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episode. Like, I doubt that we're gonna find a bad one. I'm
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a bad reviewer because either I like something or I don't want
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to consume it. Like, that's my, that's my I'm all on or all off.
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I'm zero stars or four stars. Like, if I give something to two
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and a half star, I'm like, What are we doing here? What is, what
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is, what does that?
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You might as well just go to zero right at
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that point.
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But I'm excited to do like a brief, like four star,
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kind of a like a restaurant style review that you would see
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on Yelp, not anything really long, but just something that
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would give you an idea of what you're about to go to if you're
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trying to scope out a new restaurant. So -
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Yeah!
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Without further ado, let's get into what an
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apéritif is. I wonder if I did that -
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Yeah, all right, so an apéritif and this -
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so you pulled some information, I think, directly from the wiki.
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Am I right? From the wiki?
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Yeah, this is directly from the Wikipedia off
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an apéritif.
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Okay.
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Yes.I should have sourced that.
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No, it's fine. It's just because I was like, Oh
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my gosh. Like, what how? Because I know what an apéritif is, just
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because, like, from cultural, I don't want to say osmosis, but
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from having lived in French culture, right? So the way that
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we do apéritif is usually like, Okay, so as you're cooking, as
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you're preparing the meal, you're gonna have a little
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drink, right? So, and that's your apéritif, and it's often, I
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think here I see: "common choices for an apéritif are
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vermouth, champagne, pasticin, ouzo, fino, Amontillado or other
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styles of dry sherry, but not usually cream or olarosso
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blended Sherry, which is very sweet and rich", that would
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probably be more a digestive.
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A dessert kind of wine, yeah.
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A dessert kind of wine. Um, so do you do you
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have, like, a little apéritif every once in a while, Jeremy?
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Not often, but we do. So I've gotten more into -
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Covid got me more into making cocktails, so I have a couple
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cocktail books, and so we started, but what happens is,
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like, we like a cocktail a lot so we end up drinking like two
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or three of them, and then forgetting about dinner until 10
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o'clock at night. So our apéritif can go for a little
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while. I love the way that this connects, like the Wikipedia
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references that this is from the Latin word aperire, maybe? We're
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just gonna guess.
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I don't know how to pronounce Latin. Listen,
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I try every week on my podcast, and it just doesn't work.
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You're the smart one, Mary, you're the smart one
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with all of the accents. If you can't do it, nobody can. But it
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means, it literally means to open. And I love that, the way
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that this connects to the show. And because this is literally
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the opener of the show, like this is going to be what sets
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the taste for the for the menu ahead of us, for the for the
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meal ahead of us. And it sets the kind of tone. Obviously, in
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a pilot, we're gonna introduce all of our characters, although
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I should, I should mention that this isn't a pilot. It was
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actually renewed before they even got to pilot, or approved
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before it even got to pilot stage. They were like,
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Really?!
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Yeah.
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That's cool.
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Yeah, that's true.
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They saw the scripts and were like, give it
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There's a bunch of shows that came out, like, about
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to me. We're ready. And 2013 was kind of like a heyday for serial
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killer stuff as well. Like we had -
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that, you know, kind of topic, nothing like this.
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Really popular.
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Everybody was watching it, right, yeah. There
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And this was also, like, the really high
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So, yeah, this, I love the way that this connects,
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you go.
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like, it's
also when Criminal Minds was, like -
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and I'm really interested in, as we go through this first season,
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if every single course is going to connect to, kind of - if we
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can apply it to a theme of the show, right. And this obviously
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being, you know, just an introduction, it's an
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introduction to our tour, to our characters.
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it's like a way of, like leaving you wanting a
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little bit more, right? And also like breaking the ice, right?
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Because that's kind of the point of having a drink also,
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especially when you have people over, right?
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Yes.
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So you have people over, you offer them a
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little drink, and then immediately, like, it breaks
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down some barriers, a little bit of, like, any kind of
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butterflies or anxiety or whatever, like, it just goes
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well away, mostly, depends on how anxious you are, she says,
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looking at her anti-anxiety meds, but basically, yeah, it's,
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like, it's, it's a way to, like, just put you at ease, and, like,
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just slowly slide into the world, which I really, really
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love.
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It's interesting. Like you mentioned that slow
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slide. I don't think Hannibal, the actual title character of
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the show, shows up until like, 24 minutes in, maybe before we
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see him. Or he's even a reference to, like, they do a
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lot of world setting and stage setting before Hannibal even,
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even bothers to show up. And then when he does, it's just
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like, here's Hannibal, and then he goes away. I'm so curious,
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when we get there in the in the play by play, I'm so curious how
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you're going to react to some of this stuff. Because obviously,
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like, as a Hannibal fan, I was like, there he is. I was doing
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the DiCaprio meme of, like, Oh, there he is. But before we get
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into the the actual play by play, the meat of the episode,
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there's two things I want to mention. First off, if you
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haven't seen the show before, and you plan on watching along,
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and you haven't watched the episode yet, you're just kind of
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getting your feet wet. I want to mention that it's a very, very
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graphic show.
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The first episode has quite a bit of imagery of
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Yeah.
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death. There's going to be a lot of very scary kind of dream-like
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psychedelic imagery, but there's also going to be some actual
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violent crimes committed against men and women in horrific
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circumstances. And if that's not something that you want to
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watch, you should be aware of it, because it's it can be very
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gruesome. I think in this episode, everything feels very
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dry. It's not like slasher, kind of slasher movie, gory, right?
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Like, you don't really see that, but at the same time, like, we
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have a young woman depicted, like, mounted on some deer
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antlers, like, and that's kind of horrifying.
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Yeah.
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So just wanted to mention that for people at home.
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I will say - So, I am also incredibly
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squeamish, and I hate slasher films, and I don't love body
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horror. Like, it's a lot of, it's a lot of things that kind
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of hit me in places that I don't really love. But I didn't feel
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disturbed when I watched this, this particular episode. I can't
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say how I'll feel later on, but for now, like, I didn't go, oh
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my god, I can't look at this. It was like, Oh, okay. Like, it is
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incredibly graphic and violent, but it's also done in a way that
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feels almost respectful of of esthetics in a way. And I don't
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know if this makes any sense if you haven't seen it, but it's
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yeah, it's not - yeah.
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It's hardly ever. You know, compared to a slash
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movie is good because, like a slasher movie, you might have
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somebody like, literally sitting on someone and just stabbing
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them with a knife over and over again as blood like spurts all
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over the place, versus Hannibal, which is going to present us
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with a lot of pictures of death. And they're going to be like, I
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feel like Hannibal defined aesthetic for Tumblr for a long
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time. Like, I think I feel like that's where people, like,
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started using the word aesthetic all the time. They're like, Oh,
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Hannibal, yeah, that's, that's, that's the vibe.
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Yeah.
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And it is, it is very bad. There will be moments
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of, like,
significant violence that kind of dip into, you know,
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the blood spatter and that kind of thing. I'll be curious how
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you go through especially the first season, which is, brings
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me to my second topic, because the show, in the first season,
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out the gate, it's kind of doing almost a monster of the week
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00:13:51
format, where it's like, Ooh, there's a new killer. We got to
Jeremy Greer:
00:13:53
track down this thing. There's a quote from Brian Fuller that I
Jeremy Greer:
00:13:58
want to read. This is from an Indie Wire magazine article that
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:01
I'll link in the show notes. Fuller said, "I remember leaving
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:04
the edit session where we'd seen the first cut of the pilot, and
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:07
I was like, we're doing the wrong show. When I saw David
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:10
Slade and Jim Hawkins's work and really understood the artful
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:13
piece that they were able to conjure for what we had. I threw
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:15
out the scripts. Looking back at the pilot, you can feel the
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:18
early conflict between the paint by number investigative story
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:21
beats and the lurking sense of unsettling danger in the
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:23
cinematography."
Marie Vigouroux:
00:14:24
Yes!
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:25
And I wanted to mention this because of James
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:26
Hawkinson, specifically, incredible cinematographer, and
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:30
his work on this show is literally transient, like it
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:32
changes the show to a significant degree. I feel like
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:36
without this kind of approach, this would be just another like
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:39
Criminal Minds, which is not bad, but it wouldn't be as as
Jeremy Greer:
00:14:42
artful as it is.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:14:43
No, you're absolutely right. And I think -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:14:47
okay, to see it written that way, and to see it put that way,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:14:51
makes so much sense, because I realized as I was watching that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:14:54
I was much less interested in, you know, what he calls the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:14:58
paint by number investigative story beats, and just completely
Marie Vigouroux:
00:15:02
taken aback by the cinematography, because I don't
Marie Vigouroux:
00:15:05
think I've seen this in a TV show before, especially not that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:15:09
kind of TV show.
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:11
Absolutely like, again, this could just be a
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:13
paint by the numbers crime pilot. Like, you know, we're
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:16
gonna, there's a new serial killer. We got to track him
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:18
down. We're gonna do, there's gonna be an autopsy scene, you
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:20
know, we're gonna, we're gonna have to talk to an expert, check
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:24
the lore, and then we're gonna go get the guy. And because of
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:28
the number one, I think the chemistry between Mads Mikkelsen
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:31
and Hugh Darcy - Dancy? Hugh Darcy? Hugh Dancy, excuse me,
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:36
playing Hannibal Lecter and Will Graham specifically, because of
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:40
their chemistry, and because of the writing and because of the
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:43
cinematography, it's really elevated above that. And they
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:46
did the extremely smart thing, which is lean into that as the
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:49
show goes on to the point where, like, there's episodes in season
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:52
three where I'm like, Are you - did you guys even say a word?
Jeremy Greer:
00:15:55
Like, was there dialog in this did I just watch an art film,
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:00
like, what is happening right now. So, I'm excited to get into
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:03
that.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:16:04
So excited.
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:05
Do you have anything you want to bring up
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:06
right before we go into the play by play?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:16:09
No, honestly, I'm ready to go. I'm very
Marie Vigouroux:
00:16:11
excited. I've never been excited for like, horror and death and
Marie Vigouroux:
00:16:16
blood and whatnot, but I am right now!
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:18
Excellent. Well, with that, we'll go into our
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:21
play by play section.
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:51
So we're gonna start at a crime scene. There's blood spatter
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:54
everywhere. We see Will Graham. We don't know he's Will Graham
Jeremy Greer:
00:16:58
yet, but he is kind of standing in the middle of this crime
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:03
scene. He closes his eyes, and we see this enormous like golden
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:07
sweep hand sweep across the blackness. And as he opens his
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:11
eyes, that sweep hand starts to erase things from the scene. So
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:17
we see the blood pool from a body receding, going backwards.
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:21
We see the blood spatter that's on the alarm panel starts to
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:25
unspatter in a really cool, like, reverse effect,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:17:29
Yeah, it like peels off the wall and the and
Marie Vigouroux:
00:17:32
the panel and whatnot. It's like, it's, yeah, beautiful.
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:35
And as this continues, we see him literally
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:37
walking backwards out of this house. He's surrounded by cops.
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:41
And again, this sweep hand I don't have a name for it. I'd be
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:43
very curious what they named but they call this like internally,
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:46
as they were referred to this in the script.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:17:47
Yeah, I don't know, actually.
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:49
But this, the sweep hand like, erases the
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:51
cops. So to a certain point - we get to the point where Will is
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:56
just standing in front of the house alone, and he looks up,
Jeremy Greer:
00:17:59
and then wild shit starts happening. Will goes nuts. I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:18:05
I was like, Oh no! I didn't think it was that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:18:07
kind of show!
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:09
It's - it's intense, because at this point
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:11
you don't know who Will Graham is. You don't you assume that
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:13
he's with the police, but what you see is him crashing through
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:16
the door. He shoots a man we're gonna know is Mr. Marlowe later.
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:20
And then, as all of this is happening, will begins to
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:23
narrate what he is doing. "This is my design."
Marie Vigouroux:
00:18:27
So chilling.
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:28
It's extremely chilling. He shoots a woman
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:32
expertly, I think Will says, through the neck, which
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:36
instantly paralyzes her. But Will now, I think we get that -
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:40
ee get the idea that Will is channeling what this killer was
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:42
doing. He says, you know, that doesn't mean that she can't feel
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:46
pain. And he talks about, like, the man is going to be - the man
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:51
he shot is gonna be alive enough to see him take everything he
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:53
loves away from him. And it's, it's just immediately out the
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:57
gate. You're like, What in the fuck is happening right now?
Jeremy Greer:
00:18:59
What is going on.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:00
You're like, oh no. Like, it's very impactful as
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:06
a very first scene, right?
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:08
Oh, absolutely, yeah, this, this will get you
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:10
hooked immediately, I think. And I can only imagine how this read
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:14
on the page too. Like, I feel like this is NBC going, like, oh
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:16
yeah, just give us, give us more of this. Like, we love this.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:19
To be honest with you, I took no notes at all
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:22
during this first scene, because I was just looking at it like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:26
what is happening in front of me right now.
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:28
As you know, Autumn and I have seen this
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:30
together. We watched it as it came out, and we've watched it a
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:32
couple times since. And Autumn like looked at me several times,
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:34
she's like, my mouth has just been open for 90 seconds.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:37
Yes, exactly! So good.
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:41
Will approaches the alarm panel. And I love this
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:44
moment because he he reaches up to touch it, and then we cut
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:47
directly to the present, and he's asking, like, you know, I
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:52
need the transcript between the alarm company so like, he's back
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:54
in present mode. He's not he's no longer channeling the visions
Jeremy Greer:
00:19:57
of this killer.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:19:59
Hmm. And I find it so interesting that in that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:03
moment, you see, like, a complete change in color
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:05
temperature, like between the present and what we now know, or
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:11
what we later find out is, like, Will's imagination, like, it's
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:14
just so compelling because there's warm tones for the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:18
imagination part, but there's very cool tones for the reality.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:22
And it's sort of, well, I think it says something about like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:25
where he feels most comfortable, or where he feels most at home,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:29
one might say.
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:30
And as we learn more about Will, we're gonna,
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:32
we're gonna realize that these two areas of his mind are not
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:37
necessarily separated from one another. And that's something
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:39
that happens even over the first episode. You see one bleed into
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:42
the other to the other.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:20:42
Yeah.
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:43
And the cinematography, like works with
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:44
that, I think, in a really powerful way. So I'm just, I'm
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:48
just so excited for this to get so weird. I'm just so excited.
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:52
They figure out that this killer was able to tap their phone and
Jeremy Greer:
00:20:55
record a mistaken alarm off, so, like, he was able to basically
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:01
just turn the alarm system off so he's not going to be bothered
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:05
by the police. And that's when things, quote, get truly
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:07
horrifying. And we cut from here to Quantico, which is going to
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:11
be a reoccurring - Quantico is the as we know from the X Files
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:16
and also just media in general. It's the FBI training facility
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:20
will is now presenting this case to his students and saying,
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:25
Tell me your design. Tell me who you are. I'm stealing your
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:28
notes, Mary. I'm sorry. It's just too good.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:21:30
No, that's great. No, no, no, that's great.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:21:32
Because it just, I find that that line feels very charged,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:21:35
right? Because it seems like there's a lot of emphasis, like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:21:39
the cinematography, or, like, the story, puts a lot of
Marie Vigouroux:
00:21:41
emphasis on that, and it feels
like ominous almost, you know.
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:45
And I don't know how often I want to do this,
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:47
because I feel like I might clog the podcast, but to I just,
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:51
like, every once a while I want to contrast and compare the show
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:54
with, like, the actual like books and everything. If you -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:21:57
Yeah, for sure!
Jeremy Greer:
00:21:58
If you look on like, the fandom wiki site,
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:00
there's a, there's like, a 10 page like, thing, the
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:03
differences. And I'm like, I don't want to be that guy. I
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:05
don't want to do that. That's ridiculous, but I do want - when
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:08
stuff comes up that's interesting, I want to mention
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:10
it. And one of the things that Silence to the Lambs does is
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:14
like, it's, it's Clarice Starling is a FBI agent in
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:18
training. So you get a lot of like, Will Graham showing her
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:21
how to be an agent or mentoring her.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:22:23
I see.
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:24
And that's not present here, but it's you see
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:26
this - him mentoring other, other students, other agents in
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:29
training. And there's a lot of like learning to do profiling,
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:35
like learning how to actually profile a potential serial
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:37
killer. And I just find that fascinating. Like, tell me who
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:40
you are, tell me your design. Like you, as you mentioned, it
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:43
felt very charged. And that's it's because it's pulling on
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:45
some stuff that, like, we already know, like, we feel like
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:48
something's about to happen.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:22:50
So is this, like, this line about the design
Marie Vigouroux:
00:22:53
and tell me who you are, like, is that something that comes
Marie Vigouroux:
00:22:55
directly from the book?
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:56
Nope, not that I know of.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:22:57
No?? Not even? Oh my god.
Jeremy Greer:
00:22:59
It's been a while since I've read the books, I
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:01
don't think the design stuff is from the books I'm planning on
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:05
rereading. I'm in the middle of a book now that I'm immediately
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:07
going to read all of these books so I can get up to date, because
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:11
our schedule is going to be relatively slow, and now I'm
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:13
craving more Hannibal content.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:23:15
Yeah, there you go.
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:17
At the end of the class, Jack Crawford as played
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:19
by Lawrence Fishburne appears. Jack is a - kind of a - he's in
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:24
charge of the behavioral unit at the FBI, so it's his job to
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:27
literally profile and catch serial killers for the FBI. And
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:31
he's basically here to recruit Jack. And there's a little bit
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:35
of back and forth, like they know one another, because Jack
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:38
kind of built a museum of serial killers, and called it the Evil
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:41
Minds museum. And Will has kind of, kind of rebuffed that a
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:46
little, he's like, that's a dumb name for for this, like, he
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:48
doesn't, he doesn't like the evil minds thing, which I
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:50
totally get, because, as we're gonna learn, will empathize is
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:53
with these people. So he can't, he doesn't naturally call them
Jeremy Greer:
00:23:57
evil.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:23:59
And he, I think he calls it like it's a little
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:01
hammy, if you ask me, or something, yes, something like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:03
that. And I find that really interesting, that he, he kind of
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:07
pushes back against the - the reduction of the human mind.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:12
Whether we think of it as evil, necessarily, he's like, Well,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:16
this is still a human mind, and there's something human about
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:19
it, and we shouldn't be so reductive, which I really
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:21
appreciate to a certain degree, right?
Jeremy Greer:
00:24:24
I like it.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:26
I'm like, Well, I don't know, I don't know
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:27
exactly all of the ramifications of that, but I think that it's
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:31
important to realize that, like people who do truly horrible
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:36
things, are still human. And that's, that is still part of
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:39
human nature. I think that's that is the scary part for me of
Marie Vigouroux:
00:24:44
all of this.
Jeremy Greer:
00:24:45
Oh, absolutely. And Hannibal is going to do -
Jeremy Greer:
00:24:48
Hannibal the show, is going to do such a good job of showing
Jeremy Greer:
00:24:51
you the humanity of the people that are committing these awful
Jeremy Greer:
00:24:53
and violent crimes. It never, it never tells you like he's good
Jeremy Greer:
00:24:57
now, or like he, you know, it doesn't do it like in a very
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:00
simple black or white kind of way. But it definitely shows
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:02
you, like, you know, these are actual human beings. This is a
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:05
human person that you know is doing these crimes, but it's
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:09
also at the same time, human. So what? How do we deal with that,
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:12
which, of course, like calling them evil, just is a such a
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:15
reduction that you know, he rejects. It's hammy, as you
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:18
mentioned. We learned that Will is on
the spectrum, which is a
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:21
something that is wild to see in a like national media. And I
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:27
don't find him very like autistic, autistic-coded. But I
Jeremy Greer:
00:25:30
really want you to speak to this.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:32
Well, I mean, I was really excited when I saw
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:34
that he, like, calls himself autistic, so he says that he's
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:37
closer to the Asperger and autistic post or something. So I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:45
don't tend to really use Asperger for a lot of reasons,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:47
right? Like, because historically, it's a term that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:50
was used by the Nazis in Nazi Germany to kind of describe
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:54
whether autistic people were functional enough to still work
Marie Vigouroux:
00:25:59
in the camps or they had to be killed in the gas chambers. So I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:03
tend not to use that, and I stick with with autism or
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:06
autistic people. And I just, I think it's so I just think it's
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:13
so cool, because a lot of the stuff that you're seeing, his
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:15
relationship with empathy, his relationship with his
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:17
imagination, we'll see eventually also his relationship
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:21
with animals like it speaks to a lot of things that I think
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:24
autistic people - that are very real for a lot of different
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:27
autistic people.
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:29
Yeah, I did not know that about Nazi Germany, by
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:31
the way, I did -had no idea that that existed. So that's a new
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:34
horrible fact that's in my brain.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:26:36
Yep, the horrors never stop.
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:43
We're also - So Jack, reluctantly, kind of
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:45
agrees to look at this case where college girls are being
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:48
abducted. I'm sorry. Will agrees to go with Jack to look at this
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:53
case. They're calling it abductions, because they haven't
Jeremy Greer:
00:26:55
found any of the bodies. Jack is taken to the victim board. I
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:00
guess you would call this like the cork board, with all of the
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:03
they don't have red - they don't have red yarn. Unfortunately,
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:05
it's not a it's not a Pepe thing, but it's - but they do
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:08
have everything spread out and organized. And Jack begins to
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:11
look at him, and notices, obviously, like all of the girls
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:14
look the same. And he describes him. He uses a metaphor of Willy
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:19
Wonka, of like, he's looking for a golden ticket in a sea of
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:22
sameness. And he, I love this so much because he, you could tell
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:28
right away that he's just almost immediately inside the mind of a
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:31
killer. And,it's like, Jack is, like, watching this kind of
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:35
almost at a distance. Just like, how is this dude work? Like, how
Jeremy Greer:
00:27:38
does this machine work? I don't understand it.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:27:41
Yeah, there - you can tell immediately, like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:27:43
you said, you can tell that Jack doesn't understand, but he's
Marie Vigouroux:
00:27:45
like, Oh, this is really valuable, right? And I mean,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:27:49
that's going to be one of my main questions for later, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:27:52
does Jack really value will as a person, or does he value him for
Marie Vigouroux:
00:27:56
what he can bring him? And I don't know that yet, right?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:00
Because that there's a few conversations in there that I'm
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:03
like, I don't really know where jack stands about this. One
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:06
thing that I think is, is, is really that kind of made me
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:10
chuckle, actually, is the fact that he's using the Willy Wonka
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:13
metaphor, because that's such a childish thing to describe
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:18
really, really horrible things. And yet, like, if you look at
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:24
interviews of serial killers, like sometimes they'll use
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:27
really mundane ways of describing how they felt about
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:31
their victims. And so I feel like, in that way, Will is
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:33
already, like you said, he's already empathizing with with
Marie Vigouroux:
00:28:37
the serial killer who took all these girls.
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:40
Yeah, this is just, I love this. It's
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:44
fascinating. And you got it kind of the heart of one of the
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:47
things that the show is going to be doing for the rest of the
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:50
season. In fact, the rest of the series is like Jack's motivation
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:53
and his, you know, is he there to catch serial killers and use
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:57
whatever tool is available, including Will, or does he
Jeremy Greer:
00:28:59
actually have genuine affection when, for Will and is going to
Jeremy Greer:
00:29:02
protect him against, you know, his own empathy, like, is he
Jeremy Greer:
00:29:05
going to protect him against his own brain? And that's, that's,
Jeremy Greer:
00:29:08
that's a, that's a huge discussion. We're going to talk
Jeremy Greer:
00:29:09
about that almost every single week.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:10
Awesome,Awseome! Because I was like, you know, I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:14
mean, how is Jack any different from, from, from those people
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:19
who are using other human beings, right, for their own,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:23
for their own will, or their own, their own profit to a
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:26
certain degree, right? The more cases he solves, the more the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:29
more he wins, the more the more money he makes, the more print
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:32
motions he can get anyway. So all that to say, I had a lot of
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:37
questions about that. I also thought that like that, this
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:40
immediately brought me back to Criminal Minds. As you can guess
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:42
by now, I've watched every single season of Criminal Minds,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:45
and I love and hate that show very strong love and hate a
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:48
little bit like Supernatural to a certain degree. And it's funny
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:52
to me when Will says, like he would hide how important she is
Marie Vigouroux:
00:29:57
to him, right, talking about the golden ticket, and he goes. I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:30:00
mean, I would, wouldn't you, and it's like, he's like, Well,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:30:04
don't you feel these really, really basic things? Jack, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:30:08
Come on, man. Like, it just seems so obvious to him.
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:11
In a way, Will Graham has written, in a similar
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:14
fashion to, is it Spencer on Criminal Minds? It's been years
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:17
since I've seen it, but like, the super brainy guy with the
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:20
kind of lack of empathy, not empathy, but lack of, like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:23
social cues, right? And we're even gonna get into a little bit
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:26
of that here where, you know, Jack actively wants him to come
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:29
on this investigation, and Will is reluctant because he doesn't
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:32
want to be sociable with people. But there's definitely, like a
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:34
comparison you can make between Spencer and Will Graham at this
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:37
moment, although Will doesn't have like, that encyclopedic
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:40
knowledge thing, is more like about feelings and emotions and
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:43
empathy.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:30:45
Well, a lot of people think of Spencer Reed as
Marie Vigouroux:
00:30:47
autistic as well. So this doesn't surprise me at all what
Marie Vigouroux:
00:30:50
you're saying.
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:51
I - to be honest with you, I'll just assume that
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:53
they had done that in the show at some point, because that
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:57
shows been going for so long. I was like, surely they've done it
Jeremy Greer:
00:30:59
by now. But I guess not.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:31:01
no, and he's not in the show anymore,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:31:03
unfortunately, with the latest revival that happened, like just
Marie Vigouroux:
00:31:07
last year or so.
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:08
Oh, okay.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:31:08
Yeah.
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:10
Will and Jack -Excuse me, Jack takes will to
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:13
meet the family of the latest abduction. And it's a kind of a
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:17
normal interview, except that Will, and we're gonna see a lot
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:20
of this in this in this episode in the future. Will is kind of
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:24
eccentric in social situations. So as Jack is having a normal
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:29
conversation with this, you know, very terrified parents
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:34
Will excuse me, Jack, I'm gonna get losing my mind here.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:31:37
There's so many characters!
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:39
Thank God we're not doing a Game of Thrones
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:40
podcast; Aegon, Egan...
Marie Vigouroux:
00:31:42
Oh my god, forget it.
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:46
Will is like looking at the family photos and
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:50
then just kind of randomly out of nowhere, ask a question like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:52
What about the cat? And everyone's like, What are you
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:54
talking about? What about the cat? And he makes a leap. And he
Jeremy Greer:
00:31:58
brings Jack over and says she was abducted from here. They
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:02
followed her here. She fed the cat. That's why the cat didn't
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:04
bother anybody all weekend, and she was abducted here, which
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:08
turns this house from, turns us from an interview into a crime
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:11
scene. So immediately, Jack orders his - it's not EMTs. I
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:16
don't, I don't remember the name of his crew. I just called him
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:18
the crew in my notes.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:32:21
I think he says, ERT, but I'm not sure what
Marie Vigouroux:
00:32:24
that stands for, and I didn't want to look it up again, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:32:27
I don't know what they're gonna show me.
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:29
Essentially, we're gonna meet in just a few
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:31
minutes. We're gonna meet three side characters, supporting
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:36
character, characters that are, like the diagnostic crew.
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:40
They're the, you know, they're the people that are going to
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:42
come in and look at all of the fingerprints, and they're going
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:45
to look at all the materials and all that stuff. That's who he's
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:47
calling on board to basically dissect this crime scene.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:32:49
So they come back, we're going to see those
Marie Vigouroux:
00:32:52
people again.
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:53
Yes, all three of these, if you notice in the
Jeremy Greer:
00:32:55
credits, I'll get there in a minute. So they go upstairs to
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:04
look at, I think it's Elise's room. And the dad is like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:08
opening the door for will, and was like, Don't touch anything.
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:11
You can't even be in here. Hold the cat if it's better for you.
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:15
Like, so you won't touch anything. And it's a weird
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:18
moment, but it's, I think it's just there to show you like, oh,
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:20
we are going to respect this crime scene, like, we have to
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:22
make sure everything's exactly everything's exactly the way it
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:23
was. So when they walk in surprise, Elise is there laying
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:29
in bed. That
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:31
Ugh! That was so horrifying, honestly, but the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:33
second that I saw the cat trying to get in, I was like, There's a
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:35
dead body in there. Like, 100%.
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:37
100%.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:38
Like, Oh my god. I was like, a cat trying to
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:43
get into a locked room with murder going on. Yeah, for sure,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:47
100%.
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:47
Absolutely, yeah, the cat wants to eat the body.
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:50
That's unfortunately -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:50
I know! It wants to eat the eyes.
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:53
It wants to eat the eyes. And we love them
Jeremy Greer:
00:33:55
anyway. We love cats anyway. Let them eat eyes is what I say.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:33:59
I would let them eat my eyes, frankly.
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:04
So now that this is a crime scene and Will has a
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:06
body to work with, I find it very interesting that Jack, at
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:08
this moment, basically tells Will, like you have all of the
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:13
time that you need. He's not gonna invite the ERTs up. He's
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:17
gonna leave this crime scene for Will to kind of do his thing
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:19
with, right? He's just going to, you know, whatever you need to
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:22
do, do it. We're going to leave you alone to do it. And outside
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:25
is like this hive of activity, of cops pulling up, like, we got
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:29
to do all of this stuff. Everything's going crazy. We
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:31
have to get this body out of here. But, like, we're going to
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:32
block this off so that Will can do his thing. And I think if
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:36
you've watched a lot of like, crime material or crime like
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:39
media, I think this is very unusual, right? Like they don't
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:42
normally just let a dude sit in here and chill for 20 minutes by
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:44
himself.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:34:46
No, definitely not, especially if they're not,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:34:48
as we find out, like he's not an FBI agent, right?
Jeremy Greer:
00:34:51
Right.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:34:52
Right. So then, This is so then what - Well,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:34:55
anyway, maybe that's a question that's
answered later. But then
Marie Vigouroux:
00:34:57
what is he? Because he's like, special investigator, what does
Marie Vigouroux:
00:34:59
that mean, anyway? Sorry.
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:01
So right now he's, he's technically in the next
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:04
episode, this will be, I think, explained in, like, handwritten
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:06
and hand waved away, so we won't have to worry about it anymore.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:09
So I'm like, why does he have a gun!
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:13
Right?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:13
That's my canadianness. I'm like, why does
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:15
he have a gun? Anyway. Yeah, we're not allowed handguns here.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:19
So to me, like seeing somebody with a handgun is like a big
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:21
deal.
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:21
I'll see a dude with a handgun at a Starbucks.
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:23
It's ridiculous. It's just so insane.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:26
I know
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:28
Will begins to focus, and the same thing that
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:30
happened in the cold open begins to happen. We see our sweep hand
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:34
appear in his mind as the sweet pan goes the blood. There's only
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:38
like small points of blood on Elise's body, but those
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:41
disappear, and now she's just sleeping. And as the sweep hand
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:45
continues, it finally gets to a starting point, and he leaps on
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:48
top of her, strangling her. And it's very intense, like when
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:52
Hugh goes from like everyday, Will, to serial killer, Will, it
Jeremy Greer:
00:35:56
is absolutely terrifying.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:35:59
Yeah, yeah. It really was, frankly, I was like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:36:02
Oh my God, is he - and then he got me wondering, like, is this
Marie Vigouroux:
00:36:05
- anyway, I'll talk about that a bit later, but I'm like, is it
Marie Vigouroux:
00:36:08
just imagination, or is he, like, fantasizing about this?
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:11
And that's, that's, that's gonna be
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:13
something that we delve into. So definitely keep asking that
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:16
question, because I think it's a very valid one of, like, what it
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:20
what? How much is this affecting his mind? Right? We, like, we
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:23
talk about forts in a little while, and we'll talk about some
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:26
of that stuff. He's interrupted by Beverly Katz. She's not named
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:29
in this episode. I hope that's her name. Yeah, that's her name.
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:33
I couldn't remember if that was her name or her actual in real
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:36
life, name. Beverly Katz is one of the three people we're gonna
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:39
continue. It's gonna support these cases, to help work these
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:42
cases with Jack. She's not supposed to be in here, and she
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:45
instantly challenges Will on you know why he's not an FBI agent.
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:48
He's like, Well, I keep failing the test. And she's like, well,
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:52
the tests are there to detect instability. Are you
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:54
unstable?And it's like, she's kind of like, she's kind of got
Jeremy Greer:
00:36:57
this look on her face, like she's impressed with him because
Jeremy Greer:
00:37:01
she knows who he is. Like, she's read his work. But also, like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:37:04
Why aren't you in the field doing what we do? Like, why
Jeremy Greer:
00:37:07
aren't you, like, a real FBI agent? Quote, unquote. And it's
Jeremy Greer:
00:37:10
kind of interesting. I like, I like Beverly Katz a lot. She's
Jeremy Greer:
00:37:13
gonna play a big role in the series.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:16
And again, like, I find that that, you
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:17
know, are you unstable, is kind of charged also, right? Because
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:21
it's like, well, I mean, from what we've seen, it's possible,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:25
and you can tell that this is a case that's being built slowly
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:28
by the show to kind of characterize Will and - and it
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:33
gets me thinking, actually, when we when we got to that point in
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:37
the episode, I was like, is this? Is this the real mystery
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:41
of the episode. Who is Will Graham? What kind of person is
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:45
he? Because as somebody who, like, doesn't know anything
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:47
about Hannibal or the Hannibal franchise, like, I know who
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:51
Hannibal Lecter is, right. Like, you can say the name, and I'm
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:54
like, okay, cannibal. Like, I know that. But who is Will
Marie Vigouroux:
00:37:57
Graham, I don't know. And I feel like this is really what this,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:38:01
this episode, is doing
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:04
And this is almost wholly original. So Will, Graham
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:08
is definitely a character in the books, like the first books are
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:11
will and Hannibal. Will using Hannibal to help track down
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:15
serial killers and and their relationship, like being this
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:19
push and pull of information and psychiatric breakdowns and
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:23
things like that. But we don't really get this adaptation of
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:29
Will in the books or the movies. It's a much more straightforward
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:31
approach. And so this is very, very unique. And one of the best
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:35
thing, one of the things I love the most about the show is how,
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:38
just how they treat Will. It's not going to be great all the
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:41
time -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:38:42
I can tell!
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:42
But it's also very, very fascinating. Yeah,
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:45
Will's going to go through, go through some stuff. Let's just
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:48
say that.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:38:50
Well, just the amount of blood that he was
Marie Vigouroux:
00:38:51
covered in, like in this episode, I'm like, Oh man, I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:38:54
feel like this is just the beginning for him.
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:56
I'd be very curious. I haven't read
Jeremy Greer:
00:38:57
interviews with the cast often, but you know, like filming
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:01
Supernatural Jared Padaleki had issues with like, channeling
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:03
Lucifer, and it caused mental health issues and things like
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:06
that. He's talked very openly about that. I wonder if, how
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:08
much this affected Hugh, because having to play this role with
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:12
such intensity, and he does, like he keeps up this level of
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:14
energy throughout the entire three seasons, is - has to
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:17
affect you in some way. I'm gonna, I'm gonna look at some of
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:19
that. We'll have some of that for some
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:21
Yeah, yeah, I would love to know that. I can't
Jeremy Greer:
00:39:24
No, you wouldn't be able to. They would just be
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:24
Just left. He took the car and he left, hehe
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:24
look that up.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:27
talking about the supposed season four or movie that they
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:29
keep talking about that never happened. So the ERT crew found
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:35
antler velvet in the wound. So that's a big thing. And Will
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:39
looks at this and kind of announces to the room that this
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:43
was an apology of whatever this killer was able to do to Elise
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:47
he wasn't able to do to the others. So he brought Elise back
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:49
and, like, placed her here as an apology. And then he'd like, I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:53
assume, like we cut to just him driving home, but I just assumed
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:56
that he left the room after that because that's the kind of dude
Marie Vigouroux:
00:39:59
he is, right. I'm gonna drop that weirdo, like line, and then
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:02
See you later, everybody not even to see you later, just like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:04
a turn around and like, march down the stairs.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:09
left Jack stranded there. Somebody else had to give him a
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:13
lift. So relatable, I feel that.
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:19
Jack is driving home to his home, driving to his
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:22
home in Wolf Trap Virginia, where he see, when he sees a
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:26
stray dog. Fortunately, I don't think any dogs are harmed in
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:31
this. I'll just go and say that out loud. It's a spoiler, pretty
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:34
sure.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:35
Oh my god, thank you so much.
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:36
But it is one of those shows where you're like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:37
Oh, they're gonna kill this damn dog, like they're gonna do
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:39
something.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:41
Listen, you saw my notes, right? I took some
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:43
handwritten notes, and I sent you a picture, and one of the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:40:45
lines was, please don't kill the dog.
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:48
Please, please don't kill the dog. He takes
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:52
the dog home, we get like a kind of a montage of him bathing the
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:56
dog and blow drying the hair, and then introducing the dog to
Jeremy Greer:
00:40:59
all of his other dogs, which also look like rescues, right?
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:01
Like they all look like he's got, like, five or six dogs in a
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:04
pile that are just, you know, that they all seem like he is
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:07
rescued. I think you mentioned this earlier, but like, just
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:09
another kind of insight to his mind, of that, like, I'm sure,
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:13
if you're that empathic, if you - it's that easy to see into
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:17
someone else's mind, like having dog companions around to you,
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:20
which is the best animal in the world? Like, can be, really, can
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:23
be relieving from that.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:25
Yeah, and just the way that he talks to them,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:28
too, he's like, introducing them, you know, in a way that he
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:31
doesn't even introduce himself or others, like, when it comes
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:34
to people.
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:35
Yeah!
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:35
He's so, I don't want to say incapable, but
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:38
he just does not do that around people. And yet, with dogs, it
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:41
just comes, like, naturally. His tone of voice is different,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:41:44
like, you can just tell how much more comfortable he is around
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:47
Very good observation. I didn't really
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:47
these dogs.
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:49
think about that as like to compare and contrast that with
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:52
the treatment of people. That night, he's sleeping, and he
Jeremy Greer:
00:41:56
looks over in his bed and he sees a dead Elise laying next to
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:00
him, she begins to float up towards the sky, and then he
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:05
wakes up in kind of a shock, and he is so sweaty from this dream
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:10
that he has to, like, strip off his shirt and literally, go get
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:13
a towel to put on his sheet so that he can go back to sleep.
Jeremy
Greer:
00:42:17
I'm just gonna say maybe note that in your mind and -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:21
Oh.
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:22
Not gonna just, you know, hey, there's a thing
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:25
that happened.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:26
Oh no, oh no. Oh, this is how it feels. I hate
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:30
it!
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:31
You are now the Drew in this relationship!
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:33
For listeners that may not know on Mary's podcast,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:33
Oh no!
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:37
Carrying Wayward about Supernatural, she does this to
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:39
Drew all the time -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:41
All the time! And I'm so mean about it, too!
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:43
And Drew takes it in stride. He's like, I'll know
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:46
when it comes up, but yeah, it's - I'm going to make Mary's life
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:49
miserable over the next few weeks.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:42:53
I look forward to it. Thank you very much.
Jeremy Greer:
00:42:58
So we go back over to Quantico. Jack is frustrated
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:02
with progress on this case. He's like, literally hitting the
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:04
victim board. Will is like, washing his hands in the
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:08
bathroom. When Jack marches in, and if somebody like, follows
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:11
him in to use the bathroom, Jack barks at him go to the women's
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:13
room. It's very, it's very -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:15
He's so mad about it.
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:16
Overbearing FBI, kind of, you know, boss dude.
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:20
And he tells will that he needs to be in the saddle. And, and,
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:25
you know, Will is like, I'm in the saddle, I just don't know
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:28
what direction I'm pacing, but he needs to know. He needs Will
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:30
to break this guy down, like, and he even says he initially
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:32
gets what kind of crazy is he, which is probably not an
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:35
appropriate way to refer to people, but like, we're in the
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:37
FBI chasing a serial killer, so I guess they get some leniency,
Jeremy Greer:
00:43:40
right?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:41
Yeah, there you go. And like, he screams that,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:43
right? Like he's really pushing him. And this is such a stark
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:46
contrast compared to what he was doing earlier. Of like, take
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:48
your time. No worries. If you need anything, we're here, but
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:53
here because he needs the answers now, he's pushing him,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:43:56
which is, again, like something where I'm like, Are you really
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:00
his friend? Or are you just using him? I don't know, and
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:03
especially when we know, as the audience, that like Will is so
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:07
clearly affected by this. Because when he's like, washing
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:10
his face before Jack comes in, he's like, seeing this blood,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:13
like in the water, and then when he's talking to Jack, his voice
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:17
is really unsteady, and so it's like, is that the cost of his
Marie Vigouroux:
00:44:21
imagination and his empathy?
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:23
And we saw the difference, you mentioned this
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:26
earlier, like the difference in color temperature when he's
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:29
watching his face, when his face is underwater, we see that blood
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:31
come in, like it's it's that warmer color again, and then we
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:33
go back to reality, like almost immediately we start seeing
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:36
that, like Will's barriers, his forts, as he's gonna call them
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:39
earlier, are maybe not as strong as we they need to be. Will
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:43
begins to kind of posit these theories about this killer,
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:48
eventually getting to the point where he calls him a sensitive
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:51
psychopath, because he doesn't, necessarily, he doesn't, he
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:55
doesn't fit all of the traits of a quote, unquote, normal
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:57
psychopath, of a regular psychopath that they would
Jeremy Greer:
00:44:59
normally track down, like, he's respecting these women, he loves
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:02
them even as he's killing them. And it's, you know, it's just
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:07
kind of a, like, it's one of those things. I think this is
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:08
supposed to be like a hook of like, Oh my God. It's sensitive
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:10
psychopath. It's like one of those, like, TV show, like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:13
gotcha kind of things. Like, we've never seen one of these
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:15
before. But it also works in the in the - It works in the in the
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:19
context of the show. I think.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:21
Yeah, I think when you, when you say it like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:23
that, it sounds a little hammy, but then, like, I wasn't even
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:27
shocked when he said it. I was like, okay, yeah, that works.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:29
Like everything just works and flows really well.
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:32
Yeah. The something we haven't really
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:34
talked about, and we'll talk about more when Hannibal shows
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:36
up, is that the dialog in this show is incredible. I could, I
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:40
could, literally just like, quote, it's so I just write down
Jeremy Greer:
00:45:43
the quotes of the show and talk about them. I love them so much.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:47
I actually had to use, like, I went to the the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:49
transcripts, just because, like, sometimes I have trouble with
Marie
Vigouroux:
00:45:53
accents in English, and I had trouble understanding Mads a
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:55
little bit. So I was reading the transcript, and I'm like, Oh my
Marie Vigouroux:
00:45:59
god. This is so good. This is amazing. Oh, my God. Oh my god.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:02
Anyway, loved it.
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:04
Beverly is slowly but surely, like scraping down
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:08
Elise's dress that she was found in, and she finds something
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:10
peculiar. This is going to be a metal shaving. This will be kind
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:14
of our, our key to finding the killer eventually. Well, and I
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:17
love I grew up reading a lot of what I like to call, like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:20
airport books, like the Patricia Cornwell and the, you know,
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:25
James Pattersons and that kind of stuff. And it's because my
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:28
mom read them. So they were just the books that were around. So I
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:30
just read a lot of them, and it's a lot of like, Oh, we found
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:33
a tiny thing and it led to a bigger thing. And this show,
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:36
especially at the beginning, the show, kind of leans on that, and
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:38
it's something I like, so I wanted to call it out.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:41
Well, yeah, it pays, it pays homage almost to
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:44
that genre of, like, of investigative, well, I think
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:48
they said investigative, uh, story beats, right? I think is,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:51
is how he says it at the beginning. And I just thought I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:53
was like, Okay, I know about this. I know this is familiar to
Marie Vigouroux:
00:46:57
me, like I've seen this before.
Jeremy Greer:
00:46:59
We go back to Quantico, where Jack is talking
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:02
to a new character, Alana Bloom. She is played by Caroline
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:07
Dhavernas, who is I associate with Brian Fuller's work. She's
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:11
done a bunch of stuff, but she was in Wonder Fall. She was in
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:13
Pushing Daisies. This is going to be - she's kind of our - I'm
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:19
not going to say that out loud. Almost said that she was going
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:21
to be the Castiel of this, of our trio.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:47:23
Oh no!
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:24
But it's not, it's not anything. I just wanted to
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:26
say that she was going to show up a lot. She's going to be a
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:28
main character. Don't want to have all of the implications
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:33
that come from - and we haven't even decided who Sam and who's
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:35
Dean yet, but that'll be, that'll be later down the line.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:47:38
Maybe we can talk about that like in the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:47:40
second episode.
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:42
But Jack is meeting with Alana, who is a
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:46
contemporary of Jack's. She teaches at Quantico. She's She
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:50
was - Jack actually, excuse me, Will actually referenced her
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:53
earlier, when Jack was asking him to come to indication, he
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:55
was, like, you've got Alana Bloom. Like, get her to do this.
Jeremy Greer:
00:47:57
Like, this is what she does. And Jack is specifically asking
Jeremy Greer:
00:48:02
Alana, who is Will's friend, to basically be his psychiatric
Jeremy Greer:
00:48:09
like shield. Jack says, I can keep him safe when he's out
Jeremy Greer:
00:48:14
there. I can keep him covered, but maybe only 80% of the time,
Jeremy Greer:
00:48:18
and I need your help with the rest. In other words, like if he
Jeremy Greer:
00:48:20
gets too close to this stuff, it's gonna affect him, and we
Jeremy Greer:
00:48:23
need to be aware of that and figure out how to work around
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:25
And so here she says that, you know what drives
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:25
it.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:31
him? She asks Jack, What do you think is his strongest
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:35
motivator? And the answer to that, apparently, is fear. Fear
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:39
is the thing that drives him and again, like, I think it connects
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:44
back to this idea of, like him having nightmares. And like the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:47
cost of his imagination, that is what happens when he starts
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:52
using it for that, for the purpose of empathizing with
Marie Vigouroux:
00:48:57
serial killers, is that he becomes more and more fearful.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:49:01
And maybe that's the thing that, like, breaks down some of the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:49:04
barriers in his mind a little bit.
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:06
Exactly. Yeah. She finishes this conversation with
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:09
a - requesting a promise from Jack, don't let him get too
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:12
close. And I think that plays into everything she just said,
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:15
right? Like, if he gets too close to these killers, who
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:18
knows what, what's going - How is going to affect him? Like, we
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:20
have no idea, like, what his empathy cost him. We just don't
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:23
know. And then it's time for everybody's favorite thing in a
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:26
crime, since you it's time for an autopsy.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:49:30
Love that!
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:31
This is one of the, this is one of many moments
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:33
where Will is just standing there and everybody gets very
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:35
awkward around how to just, it's just, it speaks to like, you
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:40
know, a him being on the spectrum and not being able to
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:42
engage socially in a way that I think most people
would expect,
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:46
and then also, like, he just says things just really freak
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:49
everybody out. And it's so good, it's so fascinating. They're
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:53
analyzing the body, and, you know, determining that, like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:49:56
they this antler velvet was in her wounds. When he begins to
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:01
see, kind of this vision of her mounted on a - on antlers, and
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:05
he says that, like, he says it out loud, and everyone's like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:08
all right. And then they noticed something particularly weird,
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:12
which was that the deliver has been cut out and then put back
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:15
in, and that causes Jack, or Will to have a, I don't know why
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:19
I'm getting Jack and will confused so much. I'm so sorry
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:21
everybody.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:50:22
I mean, that's fine.
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:23
This causes Will to kind of make one of these
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:25
like, Will Graham intuitive leaps, and he says, There's
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:28
something wrong with the meat. And everybody is like, What the
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:31
fuck did you just say
Marie Vigouroux:
00:50:33
This - It causes complete horror in the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:50:36
autopsy room. Like, that's exactly what you were saying.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:50:38
Like, making it weird for everybody. Like, people just,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:50:41
like, slowly turn to him, like, what did you just say? Oh my
Marie Vigouroux:
00:50:46
god.
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:47
And we find out that Elise had liver cancer, so
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:51
he cut out the liver, something bad with it. And then this makes
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:55
Will realize that's the reason we're not finding the bodies,
Jeremy Greer:
00:50:57
he's eating them. And then from there, we smash cut to Hannibal,
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:02
and it's such a good, such a good transition. Like nobody,
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:05
none of the teenagers on Tiktok can do a transition that's good.
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:08
Like, it's so good. It's so so delicious. Like, I just, I love
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:12
it because, and it's, I'm very curious how this lands with you.
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:15
Obviously, we know Hannibal is a cannibal, so we go from he's
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:17
eating them to the primary, the titular character of the show,
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:21
like having a meal and listening to classical music and looking,
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:24
you know, just as fancy as all get out. And I know that this is
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:29
Hannibal. I'm assuming that you picked it up. That was Hannibal.
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:33
But, like, did this land? Were you? Like, holy shit? Because I
Jeremy Greer:
00:51:35
was like, yes, it's a really good moment.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:39
Okay, so immediately I was like, and
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:41
that's Hannibal. Like, that's him. I know who this is. Like, I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:44
was actually really excited, because I'm like, Okay, I know
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:46
who this is. And for a second, I sort of, like, assumed that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:50
maybe it was him who was killing, like, these, these
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:54
girls, right? And eating them. Because I'm like, how many
Marie Vigouroux:
00:51:57
possible cannibals can they possibly have in one episode.
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:01
Well, it turns out!
Marie Vigouroux:
00:52:04
Exactly. Which I thought was really funny.
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:09
And it's such a brief scene, like, it doesn't
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:11
last very long, right? Like, we see him eating, listening to
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:14
classical music, and it just fades to black. It's very good.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:52:18
And he's like, cutting this piece of meat that
Marie Vigouroux:
00:52:20
actually really looks like liver. And I'm like, this is, is
Marie Vigouroux:
00:52:24
he - Is he actually like eating, them? Like, what is happening?
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:28
The food - I need to look at the name of the chef,
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:30
but they have a professional chef consulting on the show to
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:33
make all of the meals, like, look incredible and to look like
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:38
just amazing. And you'll - throughout the show if you're,
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:41
if you're a food person, like, if you like fancy meals at all,
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:43
like, you're gonna be drooling, as they show you, like, all of
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:46
these, all of these different dishes. But the chef is also,
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:49
like, specifically consulted with how to make it look like
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:52
human. Like, how to make it look like so, like the scene in a
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:56
little bit where he's, like, we're gonna get with Hannibaland
Jeremy Greer:
00:52:58
the lungs, like, they specifically designed that and
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:00
made it look like, this is how you would prepare lungs, if you
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:03
were to cook them. They just happen to be human. Like, it's,
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:05
it's supposed to be extremely horrifying, but also, like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:08
accurate at the same time, like, I think the chef was, quote, It
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:10
was like, well, that's how you would that's, that's what you
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:12
would want to eat from a human, is the lungs. Like, it was just
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:15
one of those. It's very, very wild,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:19
Well, there you go. Because the way that he was
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:21
preparing everything seemed really like, expertly done,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:24
right? And so I was like, okay, yeah, this is how you would
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:27
technically prepare human lungs. I guess.
Just couldn't believe
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:31
that it felt so normalized already in my mind, oh yes.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:34
Like, oh no.
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:36
It's, it's horrific. Hannibal has a way of
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:38
just like, getting you into the horror and making you like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:41
think things are normal in a way that is very, very good. Like, I
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:44
think that's the the main thing. The main draw of the character
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:47
across all of the adaptations, is his ability to get into your
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:51
brain and get you on his side.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:54
Maybe that's the horror of it all, really.
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:56
Yeah, absolutely.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:53:57
That you start empathizing with him.
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:58
Yeah, once you, once you get to the point where
Jeremy Greer:
00:53:59
you're like, he's my He's my baby. I wanna put him in my
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:02
pocket. I'm gonna have to remind you: He's a cannibal Mary. He
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:05
eats people. He's not a good guy.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:54:06
Okay, okay, you're gonna have to remind me
Marie Vigouroux:
00:54:09
of that a couple of times. Okay, just letting you know already.
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:14
This next scene, if we see Hannibal, he is an
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:18
active psychiatrist, so he's, you know, he's seen one of his
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:20
patients, a patient named Franklin um, Franklin. Franklin
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:23
is struggling with his neuroses. He calls himself very neurotic.
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:27
Hannibal describes it as him feeling as he was on the verge
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:31
of a lion eating him, and he has to, he says, you know, the key
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:35
is to make sure that you realize that the lion isn't real
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:38
throughout this. This is something that Hannibal does
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:40
really well, which is just gonna be anathema on this podcast ,
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:43
because there's like four things happening in the same scene. So
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:47
the show takes five minutes to show you, like four things, and
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:49
we're gonna spend 20 minutes talking about every single one
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:51
of them.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:54:53
That's what happens when shows are well
Marie Vigouroux:
00:54:54
done, though.
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:55
Absolutely, absolutely. During this,
Jeremy Greer:
00:54:57
Franklin, like, holds out his hand for tissue. And Hannibal
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:01
hands him one, and as he like cleans his face, Franklin
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:05
reaches over and places a use tissue just on the table beside
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:08
him, on the side table, and you can see the absolute displeasure
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:13
in Hannibal's face ss this happens. He is disgusted by this
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:17
act, and you could
just see like he just, he has just such utter,
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:21
just hatred for Franklin doing this. It's so good Mads does
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:26
this so well. I just, I am astonished with how good he does
Jeremy Greer:
00:55:29
this with like, Oh, look.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:31
He is honestly like, Okay, so the first time I
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:35
saw him on screen as Hannibal, already, you can tell that like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:39
he's going to be amazing. But then in this scene, I found
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:43
that, like, he plays really well on the dramatic irony I find
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:48
because, like, we know who Hannibal Lecter is, and there's
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:52
a feeling of imminent danger, right when he talks about, like
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:55
the lion on the verge of eating, on the verge of eating the
Marie Vigouroux:
00:55:58
patient, I was like, Oh my God. Is he actually gonna eat him?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:56:01
Like, is he gonna kill him? Is that what's gonna happen? And
Marie Vigouroux:
00:56:04
now he's pissed him off. He's for sure, gonna eat him. And so
Marie Vigouroux:
00:56:07
like you feel this feeling of danger as the audience like you,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:56:11
and that's exactly what he's talking about. I just - mind
Marie Vigouroux:
00:56:16
blown.
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:16
So good. As they're exiting, they find Jack
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:21
Crawford waiting in the exit path. And Hannibal doesn't like
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:24
this either. He notes that this is a private exit for his
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:27
patients. And there's some like, back and forth, where, I think
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:31
Hannibal says, unless you're here for Franklin, and Jack is
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:34
like, No, I'm only here for you. And like, Franklin is looking
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:38
back and forth, is like, it's a tennis match, like he has no
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:40
idea what to say, like he's in the room with one of my favorite
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:44
moments of Supernatural - Listeners, we're gonna talk
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:46
about Supernatural a lot on this podcast, so apologies in
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:48
advance, but I think it's season one where they meet the siren,
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:51
and the siren like infects both of their brains, and the two
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:54
brothers are arguing with each other, and the siren just like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:56
literally sits down and gets comfortable and looks back and
Jeremy Greer:
00:56:59
forth. Like Franklin has that exact vibe. He's just look like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:03
what is happening with all these people that are above me,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:05
basically. Hannibal does the this great move where he's like,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:10
you can come in, but you need to wait into my in my lobby for a
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:13
little while. Love that. I love this.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:57:15
Power move.
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:15
Absolutely.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:57:16
Power move. Good for him.
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:18
And then there's this, when Jack is finally let
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:20
in, they don't know one another, but they know of one another,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:25
Jack starts making some pretty astute observations about
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:29
Hannibal's history, like he's read papers he was referred to
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:32
and by AlanaBloom. You can tell Hannibal at first, is very
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:36
standoffish, like is this man investigating me?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:57:39
I know, yeah!
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:40
And it's, it's crazy, because, like, the only
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:43
thing you know about you, specifically Mary, know about
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:45
Hannibal is that he's a serial killer. Like, so presumably,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:50
like, he's, he's, he's been killing some people serially,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:53
and like, He's worried that the FBI just showed up at his door,
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:56
but we don't know that in the context of the show, right?
Jeremy Greer:
00:57:58
Like, we haven't seen him do anything yet, yeah?
Marie Vigouroux:
00:58:00
Yeah. But, like, that's always a bad sign,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:58:02
right? If you're, if you're out there killing people and like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:58:05
the FBI shows up at your - bad sign. Just bad vibes all around.
Marie Vigouroux:
00:58:09
So I get that he would be, like, very standoffish.
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:14
There's a lot of really tiny details that speak
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:16
to Hannibal's fastidiousness that I want to talk about. We're
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:20
gonna we're gonna encounter this throughout the show, like we
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:22
just saw it with the disused tissue. Jack walks over and sees
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:26
Hannibal's drawings, and they're these architectural drawings of
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:29
his boyhood school. That's actually kind of a thing that
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:33
gets explored a lot. Thomas Harris doesn't do a really good
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:35
job with like, the Hannibal origin stories, but fortunately,
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:38
we don't have to worry about that. So don't. We could just
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:40
get past it. But it's these really, really detailed
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:43
architectural drawings. And when Jack observes that Hannibal
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:46
says, I've always felt like it you get a better point to a
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:48
pencil with a scalpel rather than a pencil sharpener, and we
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:51
see him sharpening a pencil. And like the idea that he's using a
Jeremy Greer:
00:58:55
very precise, sharp instrument to do a run, to be like a rough
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:00
cut, is something that I find fascinating. Like it speaks to
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:02
his ability to control things
around him, to control these
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:05
tiny details. It's just -
Marie Vigouroux:
00:59:07
His ability or his need?
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:09
Both, absolutely, both, yes, absolutely,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:59:13
because, because, to me, like this seems
Marie Vigouroux:
00:59:15
almost compulsive where it's like, I need to make this like,
Marie Vigouroux:
00:59:18
as as fine a point as possible. And I'm like, not that I relate
Marie Vigouroux:
00:59:22
to that in any way, shape or form, but maybe I do a little
Marie Vigouroux:
00:59:25
bit.
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:26
No, I think it's - I think the term OCD is throwing
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:30
around, probably without regard to its actual origin or
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:32
anything. So I don't really want to use that, but it's that's
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:34
kind of about, I stress the word fastidiousness of him, wanting
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:37
to control those things around him, his need to have things
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:40
precise, just the way that he wants them. And we're going to
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:43
see that reflected across the series. This is going to be a
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:45
big thing as part it's like one of the big, like, Hallmark
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:49
character traits of Hannibal. Which is why, when you see him
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:53
in prison, like in the movies, it's so fascinating, right?
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:56
Because he doesn't have any of that stuff around him. So it's,
Jeremy Greer:
00:59:58
you know, that's -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:00:00
Arguably has no control whatsoever, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:06
Jack is making small talk, and it's kind of,
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:09
it's kind of a weird back and forth, and you have this note in
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:11
here, like, was he flattering him? You don't really know what
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:14
Jack is doing here. Like, we know that he's kind of
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:17
recruiting Hannibal, but we don't know, like, what why, or
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:21
what that relationship is, and he kind of wants to seem
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:22
Yeah, on anything that's going on. Okay, cool.
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:23
standoffish to Hannibal, but the same time, he calls himself,
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:26
like a literal layman, compared to Hannibal's skills when it
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:29
turns comes to, like, understanding the psychology.
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:32
Because when he you know compliments, Hannibal, Hannibal
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:34
is like, Well, you're the head dude at the FBI, bro, like you
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:38
control the behavioral unit at the FBI. Like, you have to
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:41
understand this stuff, and Jack flips it right. He's like, no,
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:43
no. But compared to you, I'm a layman, which is another again,
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:47
is Jack using people as tools, or is he just saying stuff that
Jeremy Greer:
01:00:50
he actually means so?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:00:52
Well, there you go. Because if he's if he really
Marie Vigouroux:
01:00:54
means that, then like, it means that he was clearly star struck
Marie Vigouroux:
01:00:57
by this person. But also it like, I don't see somebody who
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:01
becomes, like, the director of the behavioral unit, or whatever
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:05
it is - his title is as somebody who would be, like, insecure,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:09
necessarily, right? Like they have to know that they can get
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:11
the job done. Like, if you're solving murders, like one would
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:14
assume that you need to have that kind of like grounding. So
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:18
like to see him being like, Oh no, but I'm just a layman, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:21
it just doesn't feel genuine. It doesn't feel right in that way.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:27
So again, I feel like I'm much more questioning of Jack's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:32
intentions than Hannibal's, because Hannibal, I know, like
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:35
serial killer, but Jack, I don't know.
Jeremy Greer:
01:01:40
I love that.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:40
No, but it's easy, right? Like just boom,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:01:43
label.
Jeremy Greer:
01:01:44
Absolutely love that. So Jack brings hand well
Jeremy Greer:
01:01:47
to his office, we learned that a local police has leaked the
Jeremy Greer:
01:01:52
image of Elise's dead body, which has caused a surge in
Jeremy Greer:
01:01:55
false confessions after it was posted on is it the Tattletale
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:00
or the Tatler Freddie, Freddie Lounds', you know, we're gonna,
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:05
we're gonna learn a lot more about Freddie. So don't, don't
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:07
worry, just put that in your back pocket for now.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:02:08
Okay, because I saw something, actually, because
Marie Vigouroux:
01:02:11
I looked up like the cast, because I wanted to know who the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:02:13
cast was, and then I saw that like, Freddie shows up. Like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:02:17
like, it seems like there's something about that character
Marie Vigouroux:
01:02:20
that shows up again.
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:21
Oh yeah, we're gonna learn who she is.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:02:24
Oh man.
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:24
We'll talk about it when we get there too. But
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:26
that character is also in the books, but as a male character,
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:29
and they made her a female character here, which I find
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:31
very fascinating. Will calls this tasteless and this is will
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:37
and Hannibal meeting for the first time. And immediately they
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:42
get into this, like, almost sparring dialog, where they're
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:46
going back and forth. And I wish I could just transcribe the
Jeremy
Greer:
01:02:49
whole thing and say it out, but like, it's just because kind of
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:52
respond, like, do you have issues with taste? And they go
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:54
back and forth between like, then they start talking about
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:57
the forts in their mind, preventing things from going
Jeremy Greer:
01:02:59
back forth. And like, maybe the forts aren't as good as you
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:02
think. Like, it's just like they're already trying to, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:04
dissect one another. It's just an instant that they get there.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:07
Oh yeah. Oh yeah.
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:09
Hannibal notes that will doesn't like to make
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:11
eye contact, and will says that it affects his focus when you
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:14
can see all those things that people want and need and like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:17
as he's saying this, he looks Hannibal in the eyes, and like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:20
the two of them are just locked in with each other almost
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:23
immediately.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:23
So it seems like this is the first time
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:25
that, like, Will is actually looking Hannibal in the eye
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:28
right, like, because there's a the comment about eye contact,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:31
and then will looks up at him, and the look that Hannibal gives
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:35
Will when he's actually looking up at him, like, completely
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:39
smitten, like this, man already has Hannibal in his pocket.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:44
100%.
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:47
Just done, just like, immediately, like Hannibal
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:49
is, like, this is the most interesting person I've ever met
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:50
in my entire life. Like, I have to have him.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:53
I have to have him!
Jeremy Greer:
01:03:55
I need that man!
Marie Vigouroux:
01:03:59
I need him now. I love that. And he says, You
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:02
know, I imagine that what you see and learn touches everything
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:05
else in your mind, your values and decency are present yet
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:08
shocked at your associations, appalled at your dreams. Oh!
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:13
So good. It's so good. Mary. Like, just like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:16
this is on, this is on mainstream television, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:18
Like, this is the like, I just like, it's so beautifully
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:21
written for - and there's, there's going to be so much of
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:24
this, even in this episode later, when they're sitting down
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:27
with breakfast, like, the back and forth, there is incredible.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:30
Oh, the breakfast scene. OhGod, I love
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:32
it.
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:33
This is at the point where will realize is
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:34
like, are you? Are you profiling me? Like, are you? And he's and
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:38
he's so offended, he's absolutely offended. He and he
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:41
and he yells at Jack, like, who's whose profile is he
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:43
working on? And he like, storms out of the room because he has
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:47
to go, like, teach a class. And I - it's, you could tell he is
Jeremy Greer:
01:04:51
just so angry about this.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:54
He's really upset about it. And I think
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:55
obviously, like, with reason, because he wasn't really told
Marie Vigouroux:
01:04:58
that he was going to be profiled in this moment, right? I think
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:02
that shows one that he's able to tell that he's being profiled,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:05
which I really, really appreciate it. And again, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:08
as a first time watcher, this is where I felt that we were
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:12
getting a little bit into, like, the theme and even the meta of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:15
the episode, right? Because I am, like, I've been saying, much
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:19
more interested in who Will is, than, like, whoever this
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:24
cannibal killer is, and even Hannibal, to a certain degree,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:28
right? Like, Will, I'm like, that's who I'm interested in
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:32
getting to know. And so, like, you can tell that he's very
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:35
upset about that, that he's finding himself the main
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:38
character in this particular circumstance without his
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:42
consent, right? Even though the show is called Hannibal, really
Marie Vigouroux:
01:05:45
what we're learning about right now is Will Graham.
Jeremy Greer:
01:05:47
And I think that's the thing that the show does,
Jeremy Greer:
01:05:50
that makes it work so well, is that Hannibal is definitely a
Jeremy Greer:
01:05:54
main character. But you would assume that the show named
Jeremy Greer:
01:05:56
Hannibal would have Hannibal like he would be the main dude
Jeremy Greer:
01:05:59
every single week. And it's actually not, it's a much more
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:03
of a story about Will Graham specifically, Will Graham's
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:05
relationship with Hannibal. And I find that like, because you
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:08
could never sell a show named Will Graham like, nobody would
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:11
know what you were doing. But to have the like go into this
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:14
amount of depth of Will's mind and and have it like, have it
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:18
almost reflected by Hannibal, is just a crazy way to approach the
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:23
story. And I'm I think it's one thing that gets me so excited
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:25
about it is it's such a fresh take on all of the Hannibal
Jeremy Greer:
01:06:28
lore.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:30
I mean, I think that the word reflected is
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:32
really, really well chosen here, because we're going to see that
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:36
literally in the next scene. But before we move on, like will
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:39
does say like you won't like me when I'm psychoanalyzed, which,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:43
again, felt very, which, obviously, like, is a Hulk
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:46
reference, you won't like me when I'm angry, but like, felt
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:49
very charged and ominous, again. Like, what is this about this
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:53
guy that, like, he doesn't want people to get to know him at
Marie Vigouroux:
01:06:56
all. Like, is it only about the autism, or is it about other
Marie Vigouroux:
01:07:00
stuff too.
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:03
Will leaves in a huff, and Jack warns Hannibal,
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:06
like, Hey, you probably shouldn't poke will. And
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:09
Hannibal says that will has something special. He has pure
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:11
empathy, and he believes that he can help. And he calls Will,
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:15
good Will, I can help good Will find your killer, and I it's
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:20
very fascinating to me that he calls him good Will here. Just
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:24
there's obviously, like Goodwill is a phrase, and obviously it's
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:28
adding good as an adjective to Will's name, like giving him, we
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:31
haven't actually seen, will be good. And it's almost like
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:35
Hannibal is using it sarcastically in the same way
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:37
that Will, like, kind of rebuffed the idea of an evil,
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:42
evil genius name as hammy. Here's Hannibal using good as an
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:46
adjective, also kind of hammy, but using it sarcastically. And
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:49
I find that just was one of those things that, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:53
sometimes I say, like, I don't know if that was intentional. It
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:55
was probably 100% intentional. That's probably absolutely doing
Jeremy Greer:
01:07:57
stuff.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:07:59
I mean, it seems like it was, because
Marie Vigouroux:
01:08:00
later, I think he says something about Uncle Jack, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:03
Yes.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:08:03
Which, yeah, again, is like a way to show
Marie Vigouroux:
01:08:08
that he knows exactly who this person like, what this person is
Marie Vigouroux:
01:08:12
about. Probably much more than I do at this point in the series.
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:18
We cut from this directly into several crows
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:21
eating a corpse mounted on deer antlers. Our ERT crew there,
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:26
Beverly and the boys, as I'm going to call him from now on, I
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:28
just admitted that, and I love it, because I don't remember the
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:30
other two's name. Beverly, the boys are there, and the boys are
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:34
saying that the papers are now calling this killer the
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:37
Minnesota shrike, because the shrike is a bird that, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:40
actually, like, punctures its kills onto sticks and branches
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:43
and stuff. And Will, it's kind of fascinating to watch Will at
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:50
this crime scene because he's extremely bothered by it. And
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:53
we've seen him see violence and not necessarily be affected
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:56
about it. We've seen him do violence, like in the imagine -
Jeremy Greer:
01:08:59
his imagination. But here he's almost like, it's almost like
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:02
his senses are confused, and it's and it's a fascinating
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:07
progression as we go through the scene, as will realizes, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:10
this is a presentation, like the killer wanted us to see this. He
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:14
doesn't respect this woman, and he starts to realize this is not
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:18
the same killer. There's no he calls this field Kabuki, which
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:23
is an incredible line, incredible phrasing. Field
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:26
Kabuki is amazing. In hindsight, we should have just named the
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:29
podcast field Kabuki. I didn't even think about it. There's
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:32
still time. We haven't done anything yet. We'll just - We'll
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:36
just go edit it all of the Rude Eats out.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:09:41
Imagine all you hear is like, and this is -
Together:
01:09:43
Field Kabuki.
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:48
And he basically comes to the conclusion that
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:51
this is not the same killer. And we learn that this body is
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:56
missing the lungs. I think it's at this point we start flashing
Jeremy Greer:
01:09:59
back to, we start cutting to not flashing back, but cutting to
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:02
Hannibal in his kitchen. Nothing sexier than a competent man,
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:08
everybody just so firmly preparing human lungs for
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:12
consumption. Just it's incredible.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:17
I should not find it hot to watch somebody
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:20
prepare human lungs -
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:22
You shouldn't.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:22
- for dinner.
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:24
You shouldn't.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:24
I shouldn't.
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:25
That's a question here on the FBI agent exam.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:30
I would fail, apparently. Because, like, it's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:33
just - I see what people say now about how much they love the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:39
character Hannibal. And I'm like, Oh no, I'm one of those!
Jeremy Greer:
01:10:44
Yeah, it's gonna be hard to resist. I feel like
Marie
Vigouroux:
01:10:46
I feel like maybe he has different ways of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:46
people who got into Sherlock, who were like, kind of either
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:50
romanticize, either romantically or just, like, ideally, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:53
wanted to, wanted, like, really got into that TV, the BBC of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:10:56
Sherlock, like, fell even harder for Hannibal in the show,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:00
because it's like that times 1000 because he's he's so just
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:03
impeccable, and he's so competent, and he's so confident
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:06
that it's really, really hard to resist him. And I mentioned that
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:10
earlier, of like, one of the character traits of Hannibal is
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:13
getting him is he gets you on his side. And we're gonna see
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:16
that throughout this. And there's always, like, a thread
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:20
of terror as characters meet Hannibal, and they're charmed by
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:23
him, because, of course, he's a very charming man, like, he's a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:26
professional. He's helping out the FBI, like we they don't
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:30
know. So it's terrifying when it when you realize, like, Ah..
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:37
like, charming people, right? Different like, obviously,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:40
because he's a psychiatrist too. He's able to tell, like, who
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:42
needs, who needs, quote, unquote, what. And I think that
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:45
he got me with competence, like, immediately I was like, oh,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:48
okay, all right, okay, I'm in
Jeremy Greer:
01:11:52
All the way in.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:11:53
Yeah!
Jeremy Greer:
01:11:54
Jack also starts, excuse me, not Jack, Will starts
Jeremy Greer:
01:11:57
to have these realizations of what the actual killer is. He
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:01
starts realizing that the killer has a daughter because of the
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:05
way that he's like, respecting these women, and as he's like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:08
having these realizations, it's overwhelming him. And he begins
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:11
to leave, and he's saying all of this out loud so that everybody
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:13
can hear. Beverly and the boys are just like, not this again.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:17
Like, oh no.
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:18
Jack is like, Well, what about the copycat
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:20
killer? And Will says kind of dismissively, asked Dr Lecter,
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:23
you seem very impressed with his opinion, and already some, like
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:28
a little bit of maybe professional jealousy happening?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:32
Yeah.
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:33
Like I was Jack's special child. And now, now
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:36
there's another special child.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:37
Which is funny, because earlier in the episode,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:41
he was like, go see Alana Bloom. She does the same thing that I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:43
do no worries, like he was directing him towards somebody
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:46
else. But here there's like, a little like, go see Dr Lecter,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:12:49
then, you know?
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:50
Exactly, professional jealousy. And also,
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:52
like, a little bit of like, kickback, just against him being
Jeremy Greer:
01:12:57
profiled against his will, right? Like,also, like that
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:00
whole profiling thing we didn't mention, but just another
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:02
example of Jack. Another example of Jack using people as tools
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:04
and not respecting them as humans. Because, like, the idea
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:07
of, like, your co worker profiling you professionally is
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:11
wild. Like, that's horrifying, right?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:13:13
Like, I feel like that's not ethical with
Marie Vigouroux:
01:13:16
them, even within the FBI.
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:18
I would not think so at all.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:13:20
Listen, like, I'm very much of the opinion
Marie Vigouroux:
01:13:23
that like ACAB, but, you know, I feel like there's still, like, a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:13:26
professional code of ethics that one should be following.
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:29
Sure.That night at the hotel Jack has, I think I'm
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:36
willing to say this his first vision of the stag. This is a,
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:41
this is a, it's a very threatening looking deer. I
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:45
guess it seems diminishing to call it just a deer, because the
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:49
thing is like black in this full on spread of antlers. It's very
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:54
terrifying. It looks like it's like ramping up to charge Jack,
Jeremy Greer:
01:13:57
and we only see it for a little while. But it does. It does this
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:00
vision does consume him for a moment in the shower.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:04
Well, see, it's interesting that you say we, we
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:06
get his first vision of the stag, because, like, I know that
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:08
there are, there isn't another one in this or I don't think
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:12
that there is another one in this episode, so I'm assuming
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:15
that there's going to be more later. But I thought that it was
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:17
really interesting that, like, the stag was used, like, as a,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:23
as a visual here, right? Of course, it was 2013 so like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:27
antlers were, like a big thing, like, within, uh, pop culture
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:30
and whatnot. So, like, there were antlers everywhere, just
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:32
like, mustaches and whatnot. It was just that time.
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:35
Wait, antlers were big in 2013 did I miss this? I
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:38
don't. Why were they what was happening? Were people wearing
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:41
antlers.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:42
No but it was like, You know that thing where,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:44
like, there were, there was, like, a lot of like flannel with
Marie Vigouroux:
01:14:47
like antlers, like, it was like the aesthetic of the time.
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:52
I did not know this. I grew up so country,
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:55
like, all of my family had like deer heads on the wall with like
Jeremy Greer:
01:14:58
antler spreads from deer that they killed and things. So like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:15:01
I like the idea of that being an esthetic in 2013 is wild to me.
Jeremy Greer:
01:15:04
I never saw that, and that's hilarious.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:06
But to be fair, it wasn't actual antlers. It was
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:09
like drawings of antlers that people would put up in their
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:12
homes. Now keep in mind that I also grew up with, like, actual
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:16
deer heads, like and antlers in my grandparents home. So, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:21
I'm very aware of that, and it was very weird in, like, around,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:24
like, 2010 to 2013 to see all of these things. But it was a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:28
thing, I promise you.
Jeremy Greer:
01:15:29
That is wild. I'm so into it.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:31
But I so I thought that it was weird
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:33
because, like, so the stag, like, traditionally, visually,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:36
kind of represents, like, masculinity, paternity and,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:41
like, the patriarchy. And so I thought that it was interesting
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:44
for this particular story to have, like the victims hoisted
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:48
up on this symbol. So now I'm like, oh my god, does it become
Marie Vigouroux:
01:15:52
like something else later? So now I'm very intrigued.
Jeremy Greer:
01:15:55
I do. I want to mention that joke that Autumn
Jeremy Greer:
01:15:57
made as we're watching this, because obviously, like, we've
Jeremy Greer:
01:15:59
seen this a bunch before, so like, she's in the background,
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:02
like play on her phone and doing all that kind of stuff, and also
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:04
watching the show. And when this scene happened, she just looked
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:06
over and she goes, Man, Will's Patronus is so much better than
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:09
Harry's. And I just - just thought that was the funniest
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:14
thing of like, this dude does look a lot cooler than Harry's
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:17
Patronus. I will say that.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:16:19
Yeah, that's true. That's true.
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:21
The next morning, Hannibal knocks on Will's door.
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:25
They're going to be working together today. Jack is a court
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:27
like in court, so it's just going to be the two of them. And
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:32
he is, once again, this fastidiousness. He's very
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:34
careful with what he puts in his food, or he puts in his body, as
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:37
he says, so he's brought his own breakfast. He's broughta protein
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:41
scramble. I - every time you see Hannibal eat with another person
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:46
and he's offering them food, it is so fraught. You just know
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:51
that he is like, is he feeding people? Does it? Is it
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:56
happening? And there's, like, all these little moments that
Jeremy Greer:
01:16:59
make you, like, his Jack, like, grabs a piece of sausage, and
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:01
he's like, that's really good. Like, it's like, a genuine
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:03
moment of like, wow, this is good sausage kind of thing.
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:07
And every single time I'm gonna It's so stressful, it never gets
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:12
easier to watch. Like, you just, oh no, yeah, every single time
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:16
this happens. And then this conversation around them, where,
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:20
obviously, there's from Will's perspective, there's a there's a
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:23
there's a discord between the two of them. Hannibal is very
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:26
much, I feel like he's he's trying here. He's, like, wants
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:31
to -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:17:31
Yeah because he loves him.
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:33
Yeah, absolutely.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:17:34
There you go. Already.
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:35
He wants to possess him. He wants to possess
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:37
him. He wants to, like, own this, this, this weird brain
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:40
that he is envisioning,and it's, you know, this conversation back
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:44
and forth where, and Hannibal even says, like, we, you know,
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:47
we can socialize like adults, God forbid we come friends. And
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:51
Will says, kind of passionately, I don't find you that
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:54
interesting. And Hannibal just looks at him and says, You will
Jeremy Greer:
01:17:58
like, Oh, my God.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:00
I was like, Oh, okay. And it's also interesting,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:05
because it makes me wonder, like, because, again, you talk
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:08
about Hannibal as being very charming, and like, he charmed
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:10
me with his competence. He charmed you know, Jack with like
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:14
his knowledge. But he has trouble charming Will, right?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:17
And so it's this idea of like Will might be the person that he
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:21
can't fully control or manipulate, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:25
Exactly.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:27
Oh, man.
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:27
Not saying a whole lot, because it's really
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:29
difficult,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:30
Oh no! But I know that at least I'm on the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:18:34
right path. So that's good. That's good.
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:36
He begins to have this conversation about how the
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:39
fact them are very similar, and there's a level of sarcasm
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:41
guarding through this where, because he says, Do you have any
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:43
problems Will? And Jack says, No, it's like, of course, you're
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:45
just like me. Neither one of us have any problems, which is like
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:48
a really interesting line to ingratiate yourself with
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:51
someone. Then he begins to talk about Jack, and says that Jack
Jeremy Greer:
01:18:54
sees will is fine China and and Will says, What would you see me
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:00
as and animal says, I see you as the Mongoose under the house, as
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:06
the snake slither by. And I, I never really picked up on this
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:11
line before, as other, just like kind of flowery dialog, but it
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:14
really stuck out to me this time, and I did some research,
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:16
and I can't talk about anything at all. I will say the the
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:22
Mongoose is representative of stuff. The snakes are
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:26
representative of stuff. The house that the Mongoose is under
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:29
is representative of stuff. You can kind of make this very tight
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:33
sentence a a metaphor, I guess, maybe for the entire series, and
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:39
talking about it in detail the way that it deserves to be
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:42
talked about. It's something I'm going to keep coming back to. I
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:44
think as we get farther into the series, it will, like, spoil,
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:48
like, twists that are happening. It's how good this line is.
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:50
Like, it's so fucking good. I'm so like -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:19:53
Oh no.
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:54
Yeah, it's that good. Where I'm like, I mean, I
Jeremy Greer:
01:19:56
literally can't talk about it.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:19:59
Oh my god. Well, because that's the thing,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:01
because at first, my first week, because you asked me about that,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:03
you're like, What do you think about that line? Like, Well, I'm
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:06
not sure, because I didn't even know what a mongoose was like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:09
literally, until yesterday, when I looked it up and it's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:12
something that, like, attacks snake. That's like, known for
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:15
attacking snake, particularly venomous snakes. And so I was
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:19
like, okay, but like, so is he talking? Is he
saying that like
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:23
he is the house and like he wants to use Will as a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:26
protection against this, the snakes, or is he the snake? You
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:29
know that, like, is attacking the house, and so I'm like, I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:32
don't know. I don't know what this means.
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:34
I'm literally the zipped up mouth emoji right now.
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:36
I'm just -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:37
Of course, of course. I don't expect anything
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:39
else. I just wanted to say, like, what I thought.
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:43
Your thoughts are great. They're wonderful.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:20:45
Thank you so much.
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:46
The last thing I would say about the Mongoose,
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:48
and this is just kind of off topic completely. I've been
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:51
married to my wife for 20 years now, and I still learn something
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:54
new about her. Apparently, there's a cartoon called Ricky
Jeremy Greer:
01:20:56
Tiki Tavi that is about an animated mongoose defending the
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:00
home against two King Cobras. And it's narrated by Orson
Marie Vigouroux:
01:21:05
What?! That's wild!
Marie Vigouroux:
01:21:05
Welles.
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:08
I looked up that - she was like, we know Ricky
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:10
ticky Tavi, right? Like, because we were talking about mongoose
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:12
or mongeese, I guess we're talking about mongooses. I don't
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:15
we were talking about the line. And she's like, well, you know
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:17
Ricky ticky Tavi. And I'm like, What did you just say?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:21:21
What are those sounds that just came out of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:21:23
your mouth?
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:23
We looked at the trailer and like, it's, I guess
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:26
it's from the 70s, maybe early 80s, and it looks wild, like it
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:29
looks intense, especially for a young audience. Even I was like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:31
this is kind of spooky with these King Cobras that want to
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:33
kill everybody in this building anyway, we'll move on. They are
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:37
headed to a construction site. Hannibal is very interested in,
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:42
like, why they're coming here. And Jack explains, like, we
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:45
found some metal shavings. He goes into a little bit more
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:48
detail that we don't really care about. But like, they have,
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:50
they've narrowed it down to specific sites that use this
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:52
specific type of metal shavings that they can so it's not just
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:56
like, 300 construction sites that they're seeing all over the
Jeremy Greer:
01:21:58
state of Minnesota.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:21:59
Yeah. It's like, hand wave, hand wave,
hand
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:01
wave. Like this is why we're going to this particular one.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:03
Like this is not actually the story that we care about kind of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:06
thing, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:06
Exactly.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:08
Which I'm totally fine with. I don't need,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:10
like, an actual procedural here. But one thing that I do find
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:13
really interesting is this line about how, you know, he wants a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:15
peek behind the curtain, right? How Hannibal wants that, and I'm
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:18
like, so he's curious about, like, how the FBI conducts this
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:23
business when they're not kicking in doors kind of thing.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:25
And so it's like, Oh, okay. So this is useful for him, too, to
Marie Vigouroux:
01:22:28
like, learn more about, like, how not to get caught.
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:31
Exactly, yes, exactly. They arrive at the
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:34
construction office, they immediately begin to, like, go
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:37
through the files. There's a little bit of a humor scene
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:39
where the, I guess the receptionist, or the only woman
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:43
that's in this construction trailer is on the phone with
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:45
somebody, like they're going through all the files. Yes, they
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:47
can do that. No, I can't tell them to stop. They're putting
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:50
stuff in boxes like just kind of freaking out, because obviously
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:53
the FBI is coming here, and then Will finds a file on Garrett
Jeremy Greer:
01:22:57
Jacob Hobbs, and he begins to ask for more info. Does, does,
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:00
you know? Does he have a daughter? Does he you know all
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:04
this stuff? And Hannibal, you can tell, is, like, really
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:07
curious. He begins to look over the show, over will shoulder.
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:09
He's like, What? What called your attention? He's like, Well,
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:11
he didn't leave a forwarding address. When he quit, everybody
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:14
else left a forwarding address. And it's just a small detail
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:18
that will picks up on. And Hannibal is like, again, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:21
that kind of conversation that you just mentioned, of like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:22
he's learning how the FBI does his thing. Like he's like, oh,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:23:25
Well, is it the FBI, or is it just Will Graham?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:23:25
okay -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:23:28
The peak behind the curtain about, oh, my God, oh, he's so
Marie Vigouroux:
01:23:32
creepy.
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:33
And this is why it's so I think important to
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:35
talk about Quantico as a character, because Will's
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:39
ability to see this is the reason they have him in a
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:42
teaching role, to be able to try to train other FBI agents to
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:45
catch stuff like this. That's something that comes naturally
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:47
to him. Can that be reproduced with other agents? And can that
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:50
help us catch more serial killers?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:23:52
Yeah.
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:53
And again, yeah. I'm also with you on ACAB, but
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:55
like, there's an aspect of like FBI catching serial killers that
Jeremy Greer:
01:23:58
I find fascinating, just in general.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:00
I mean, listen, right? Like, I think that there
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:02
are certain roles for which, like, police is necessary, yes,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:06
right? You know, stopping drunk drivers -
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:09
Pulling over Justin Timberlake.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:10
Yes, absolutely. I was gonna say
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:12
very, like, on trend kind of topic to talk about, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:15
stopping serial killers. Like, I think we can all agree on that
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:18
my issue lies somewhere else.
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:21
Of course, yeah, and we don't have to get into
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:23
the politics of that if you want us to, then just follow us on
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:25
Twitter.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:24:29
I mean, I know I talk a lot about that on
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:32
They begin to take boxes of files to Will's car and
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:32
there.
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:38
Hannibal, very much on purpose, spills some causing Will and the
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:43
lady that's helping them to, kind of like, scramble around
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:45
and pick some stuff up. And then Hannibal goes inside and calls
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:50
Garrett Jacob Hobbs. And we see Garrett Jacob Hobbs. We didn't
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:53
actually mention this, as it happened while they were looking
Jeremy Greer:
01:24:56
at the body in the woods from the copycat, we saw flashes of
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:00
you know a character that we're going to come to know as
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:03
Abigail, getting out of their car and like, waving to her
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:06
father, who was Garrett Jacob Hobbs. And now we're seeing
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:09
those two characters in, like, a very suburban setting. They're
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:12
in a kitchen preparing dinner, or, guess not, dinner, lunch or
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:16
something. They're all they're all hanging out in the kitchen.
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:17
I don't know what they're doing.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:18
Breakfast, II think? I saw some pancakes.
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:20
Sure. Yeah.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:21
I was very excited about that. I was hungry
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:25
when I watched this.
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:26
I'm gonna warn you, you
probably need a snack
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:28
before watching Hannibal, because it's gonna make you it's
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:30
gonna make you crave stuff that you don't necessarily want to
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:32
crave, and you're gonna have to sit with that.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:35
I was really worried about, like, the the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:37
warnings that that I had received about it being gory,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:40
and I was like, Maybe I shouldn't, like, watch this with
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:42
a full stomach, but no, I think next time I'll have a snack
Marie Vigouroux:
01:25:45
before.
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:48
So Hannibal calls. Abigail answers, passes the
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:50
phone to dad, Garrett, and Hannibal simply says, this is a
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:54
courtesy call. Listen very carefully. We don't know each
Jeremy Greer:
01:25:57
other. We may never meet. They know. And this is, this is
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:02
Hannibal showing us the agent of chaos that he is. And one of the
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:08
things that makes Hannibal a great character is that he not
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:12
only can get people onto his side, but as you mentioned
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:14
earlier, using his like psychiatric mind to control and
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:17
manipulate Will. That's what he does to everybody. It's not just
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:21
Will, like he now he is setting this in motion just to see what
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:25
happens. He doesn't know that Garrett is the killer, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:27
Like, they don't know that for certain, but on the off chance
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:30
that it is, of course, it happens, he's gonna set this,
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:32
like bomb off in this dude's brain, just to see what happens.
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:36
Who cares about the consequences? And it's so good.
Jeremy Greer:
01:26:39
I love this so much.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:26:41
Oh, my God. Because see, when I watched it,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:26:43
I had no real idea of what the motivation was behind it, right?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:26:47
Like, this was a complete mystery to me. I was like, Why
Marie Vigouroux:
01:26:50
does does he? Does he care? And if so, why? And I sort of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:26:57
assumed that, like, okay, so they have to get like, like, on
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:00
a more critical side, like, they have to get Hobbs to attack his
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:02
family. But I just again, I think, like, this says something
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:05
about Hannibal that I, I, I wasn't expecting, because I saw
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:09
it more as, like, is it projection? Is it empathy? Is it
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:12
professional courtesy? But you're telling me it's just,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:14
like, his chaos Gremlin?
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:17
Absolutely. Yeah, absolutely. And there may be,
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:20
there may be a little
bit of, like, professional courtesy
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:23
involved, right? Because I feel like Hannibal is a character
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:26
that wants more serial killers in the world.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:29
Right. So, like, from one serial killer to
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:32
another, like they know kind of thing.
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:34
But I think at its core, I think if they put him
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:37
side by side, I would believe that he just wants to see what
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:39
happens in some cases, like, he just likes to light the fuse and
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:43
watch the toys explode, right? And we'll see more of this
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:47
Which is interesting for somebody who,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:48
like, craves control for so many things, right?
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:52
Exactly.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:27:52
Such a contradiction.
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:54
Like, imagine very carefully, like, imagine a child
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:57
very carefully organizing its toys in a battle scene and then
Jeremy Greer:
01:27:59
literally exploding it with firecrackers. And that's, that's
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:02
a good analogy of what like, how Hannibal sees people, I think,
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:05
are just these like pieces and toys that he can, he can align
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:08
and then set off to create these explosions. And it's gonna be
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:11
fascinating.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:28:12
Interesting that you're using, like a kids
Marie Vigouroux:
01:28:14
metaphor also to talk about this, when we just had a kids
Marie Vigouroux:
01:28:17
metaphor about the Willy Wonka golden ticket? Wow.
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:21
It's because I'm a serial killer.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:28:25
Yes, there you go. We should have known. We
Marie Vigouroux:
01:28:26
should have known. So
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:29
this, he says they know, and we cut to black. It's
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:33
wild. Imagine seeing like a commercial for detergent after
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:35
this. Watching stuff with commercials is fascinating to me
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:39
nowadays, because it never happens, and I'm just like, what
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:42
were they playing? Was Office Depot advertising like a new
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:44
printer, like what was going on?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:28:45
Imagine!
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:48
But we cut to will who was covered in blood, and
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:53
right away we hear this electronic thumbing, and his
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:56
sweep hand is working, and it backs him all the way into his
Jeremy Greer:
01:28:59
car, where he's sitting in the car with Hannibal as they pull
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:04
up to Garrett Jacobs hots house, and now he's fully clean. He's
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:07
not covered in blood. So we, I think this is a really good way
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:11
just to, like to put so much tension in a situation where we
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:14
just don't know what's about to happen, but we know it is super,
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:17
super bad.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:29:18
Oh yeah. I mean, when I watched this, I was
Marie Vigouroux:
01:29:20
like, Oh no, because I kind of love this idea of, like, you
Marie Vigouroux:
01:29:25
know how it's going to end, but you have no idea how they're
Marie Vigouroux:
01:29:28
gonna get there. Like, I find that just as interesting as,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:29:31
like, not knowing how it's going to end, if not more, actually.
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:34
Absolutely, yeah, it's a -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:29:35
I love that.
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:36
Very, very, very interesting narrative device to
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:39
So as they get out of the car, Garrett's wife, who I don't
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:39
use.
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:46
think is actually named anywhere, anywhere like, runs
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:49
out of the door, she is - her neck is bleeding. Her neck is
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:53
wide open. Will rushes over, and he's trying to, like, put up his
Jeremy Greer:
01:29:57
hands over her neck to prevent the bleeding. And she's just -
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:00
blood is pouring out of her, and she dies, literally, in Will's
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:02
arms
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:03
She is like, so white, she has no more blood,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:06
like in her head, like there's, there's nothing he can do to
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:09
save her.
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:10
Will draws his gun. Will, why do you have a
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:12
gun? You're the last person in the world who should ahve a gun.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:16
Well, right??
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:16
This is, this is one of those TV show things. I
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:18
think we're just like, they have a gun. It's really wild -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:22
And he kicks down the door, which I found was
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:24
an interesting call back to, like, you know the when they're
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:28
not kicking down doors earlier.
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:29
Absolutely, it's also like him kicking down the
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:31
door of the house and the cold open as the serial killer,
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:35
right?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:36
Yeah.
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:36
I was actually, it's interesting that you bring
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:38
that up, because I was, I thought in my brain when he
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:40
thought in my brain, I need to, I need to distinguish -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:30:42
Where else do you think Jeremy?
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:44
Jesus Christ. I was thinking when I saw this,
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:48
like, how very TV tropy it was, where you because he's because
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:52
he's not, like a buff dude, like they're not presenting him, is
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:55
that and so him, for him to, like, break a door down. I
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:57
thought was,
but it's interesting that you compared it
Jeremy Greer:
01:30:59
to the when they're not breaking the doors down. And also, the
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:02
thing that's interesting, good stuff. As he arrives in the
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:06
kitchen, Garrett is holding a knife to Abigail's throat, and
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:11
he doesn't hesitate for very long. He just slits her throat,
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:14
and then Will just opens fire, literally emptying his entire
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:17
clip into Garrett Jacob Hobbs. Will rushes over to save
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:21
Abigail, and he looks over and he locks eyes with Garrett, and
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:24
Garrett says, I see you, which is terrifying. And honestly,
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:31
don't really know what it means, don't I don't have, I don't have
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:34
a good analysis for this whatsoever. I was very curious
Jeremy Greer:
01:31:36
how you took this.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:38
Well, so I was wondering, because again, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:40
I'm not entirely sure about how Will understands his, quote,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:45
unquote, like power of imagination, right? And so it
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:49
again, with this idea of, like, fear being his main motivator.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:52
Is he now afraid that, like, he's able to imagine how killers
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:55
operate, because deep down, he is also a killer, or he has the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:31:59
potential to become a killer himself. And so, like that idea,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:02
because we saw that, quote, unquote, like, professional
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:05
courtesy between Hannibal and Hobbs. Like, is this what's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:08
happening here, that, like, Hobbs is seeing him, and it's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:10
like, I see you. I know who you are. I know what you are. You
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:13
know.
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:15
It's, I mean, just, and it's, it shakes will
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:18
to his core, like he's, he's already shaking, and you could
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:23
tell like he's probably going into shock, like he is, he is,
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:26
he is not. This is not his normal thing. And when he hears
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:29
this like he's even like, he almost stops helping Abigail
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:32
right, like he becomes so overwhelmed with it. And this is
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:35
when Hannibal takes over, and just like wraps his his enormous
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:39
hand around Abigail's throat, and just like, calmly looks at
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:42
will, like, this is everyday material for him. And it's just,
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:45
I get talking about competency and confidence. Like, wow, man.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:49
This should not be hot again. I should not be
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:53
like, Ooh, that was nice.
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:55
Yet another, yet another question on the
FBI
Jeremy Greer:
01:32:57
agent exam, that we're both failing.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:32:59
Oh, absolutely. And like, that's the thing too.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:01
Like he he's literally, like, pushing Will's hands away, like
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:05
he takes over from Will. And, like you said, Will is going
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:07
into shock, like 100% like, the shock is setting in from having
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:11
one killed somebody, and also, like, having been told that,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:14
like, I see you, but did that really happen? Or is he
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:17
imagining it?
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:18
That's one of my favorite things about the show,
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:19
is that there's gonna be times where you just don't quite know
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:23
what is real and what is not, because Will can be such an
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:26
unreliable narrator as - because he has such a intense
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:30
imagination and such intense empathy. And the show has shown
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:32
us like him, using that specifically that opening scene
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:36
where he bounces from the imagination to real life as he
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:39
asks the transcript for the alarm panel, like, he can easily
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:42
move between those two when he wants to. And like, I feel like
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:45
this is one of those moments of, like, is he moving between those
Jeremy Greer:
01:33:48
two when he doesn't want to as well.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:50
When he's not aware? And honestly, like, I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:52
find that and so especially in this moment where he's so
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:55
vulnerable, right? Like, because it seems like he's getting those
Marie Vigouroux:
01:33:58
unwanted I mean, I mean, I don't want to say visions, but almost
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:01
like when he's very vulnerable, like when he's sleeping, when
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:04
he's in the shower, when he's in the bathroom, and here, like he
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:06
just killed someone, which I would assume would make you feel
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:09
pretty emotionally vulnerable if you're not used to doing this
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:12
every day.
Jeremy Greer:
01:34:13
Never bothers me.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:14
I mean, like, I don't actually quite know, but
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:18
having, having, you know, having been in a, well, yes, in a very
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:24
like, emotionally charged situation of violence, violence
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:27
before, like, your memories and like what you're seeing aren't
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:32
always like, I know that I could not quite trust - and that's not
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:38
to say that like, you shouldn't trust victims like, that's not
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:40
at all what I'm saying. But I know that for me, my brain
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:43
covered
up a lot of stuff that, like, I - that it knew that I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:48
couldn't, I shouldn't be remembering. And so I'm kind of
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:50
wondering, like, like, like you mentioned about the unreliable
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:53
narrator, like, Is this what's happening to Will? Like, under
Marie Vigouroux:
01:34:57
this intense moment of trauma? Like, is he just unable to
Marie Vigouroux:
01:35:00
control the difference between reality and imagination.
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:04
Absolutely. Yeah, and we're gonna, hey, we're
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:07
gonna be talking about that a lot. Mary, we're gonna be, we're
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:10
gonna be having this conversation quite a bit.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:35:14
Great.
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:15
Will watches almost like non blinking as they
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:19
load. Abigail, who's presumably alive at this point, into the
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:23
ambulance, and she's taken away. We cut to Jack, who is stalking
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:28
into Will's classroom to look for will, and finds Alana Bloom
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:31
there, who has taken over, and she is extremely mad, because
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:35
she realizes however they have communicated this, and it
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:37
doesn't matter, because TV, she understands what's happened to
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:41
Will, and she blames him, like you told you, said he wouldn't
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:44
get too close. And like, this is the opposite of that, like, what
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:46
do you and lays into him a little bit, which is awesome of
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:50
her. I love that she's able to, like, challenge Jack, even
Jeremy Greer:
01:35:54
though he's a figure of authority.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:35:56
As she should really because, I mean, when you
Marie Vigouroux:
01:35:59
think about it, like, who was the agent on like, I'm like, who
Marie Vigouroux:
01:36:04
was actually, like, the agent in charge in that moment, right?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:36:07
Like, it should have been, like, he should have said, if I can't
Marie Vigouroux:
01:36:10
make it today, you guys don't go out. We go tomorrow, right?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:36:13
Like, this is, to me, like, a complete lack of of judgment on
Marie Vigouroux:
01:36:18
the part of Jack.
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:19
And it's, it's, it's something that got brought
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:21
up earlier too, in the car when Hannibal is asking Jack, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:26
Excuse me, Hannibal is asking Will why they're at the
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:28
construction site, and he mentions, like, oh, it's
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:30
fascinating to learn more about the FBI. And he's like, Yeah,
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:32
you, you should, you should just come with us to knock on doors
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:34
sometimes, like, this was supposed to be just like a knock
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:37
on door situation. There was no idea that they were going to
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:39
fall into a serial killer, right? They were just gonna go
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:42
talk to somebody. And so, like, I feel like that's the excuse,
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:46
but you're absolutely right. Like, they this, this, this was
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:48
a terribly handled especially when you have basically two
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:51
civilians just doing FBI is work for them. Like, that's insane.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:36:55
Right? Yeah. Oh my god!
Jeremy Greer:
01:36:57
Skinner would never allow this to happen.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:37:00
Skinner, the Hunk would absolutely not be
Marie Vigouroux:
01:37:03
happy about this, and with reason.
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:07
We go from here into we watch Will, in slow mo,
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:11
walk through a hospital corridor and into Abigail's room, where
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:14
she's sleeping, obviously stabilized. And as he enters the
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:18
room, we realize that Hannibal is there holding her hand beside
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:22
the bed, and will just kind of takes this in, takes a moment,
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:27
and he goes to the other side of the bed and sits down, and as
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:31
they're both waiting for Abigail to wake up. This, you mentioned
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:35
this in your notes. This scene is, I think, filmed in such a
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:39
way, and is soundtrack in such a way to make you feel very scared
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:42
of this. And you don't like you really don't understand
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:46
Hannibal's motivations. And again, the only thing we know
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:48
about Hannibal from, like, a pop culture perspective, right? It's
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:51
just like he's a cannibal. We know that like that they're not,
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:53
they're not going to not do that in this show. So we know that he
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:56
is a threat. We don't know how much of a threat, and we don't
Jeremy Greer:
01:37:59
know, like, what his relationship with Abigail is, or
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:02
what his intentions are, and we see what his relationship is
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:05
with Will, and it's really difficult to get a handle on,
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:07
like, why he's here, why he would care. This is something
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:11
that is going to be explored and talked about, and we're gonna,
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:14
we're going to get into the details of this, but right now,
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:17
it's such a shock seeing him here, and you feel threatened,
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:20
just like he field threatened when he like, offers, Will the
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:23
protein scramble or whatever the sausage, there's just an
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:27
undercutting. There's an undercurrent of terror and like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:38:30
fraughtness here.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:32
It's just so alarming. Like, everything
about
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:35
this is alarming because, like, why does this man care about
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:39
this girl? Right? Like, he didn't, clearly, didn't really
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:42
care all that much about her father. And yet, he went into
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:47
the ambulance with her leaving Will, who was clearly in shock,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:53
and and now he's like, holding her hand in a hospital room.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:38:56
Like, what is happening, you know? And I'm kind of again,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:00
like, I'm like, is this showing us one thing, like showing us a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:04
negative so that we can't see the positive, so that, like, are
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:07
they doing to us what Hannibal did to will with, like, the fake
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:12
out in the middle of the episode? Like, is this what's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:15
happening? Or does he actually care? Like, I don't know. I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:18
thought that this scene was the single most disturbing one in
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:23
the whole episode.
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:25
It's - so a hospital scene is disturbing,
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:27
and Hannibal preparing human lungs for consumption is hot.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:32
It was hot.
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:32
I want to make sure I get the rating system for
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:34
Mary right on track right out the gate. So we gotta - is it
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:38
hot or not? Is a totally different thing in this
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:42
situation.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:39:44
Oh, my God.
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:44
I think you're right. You're right to be
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:46
disturbed by it. So, like, it's especially just what, what we
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:50
know about Hannibal, and even at this point, what we don't know
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:52
about Hannibal is scary. So just having him here is spooky. And
Jeremy Greer:
01:39:58
another thing that's kind of, trepidatious for me is Will's
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:01
acceptance, where he just walks in and he's like, he doesn't, he
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:04
doesn't cry an alarm, like he doesn't say, This man doesn't
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:07
belong here, because, in a way, like he doesn't belong here,
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:10
either he's not this child's guardian or parent, like both of
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:12
her parents are dead, and so he just sees it as, like, all
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:15
right, like we're both, we're both going to be here for this
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:17
child. And then the series turns into my two dads. So I hope
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:20
you're, hope you're ready for -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:23
Well, so Okay, so now I'm like, so I never
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:25
really thought of Abigail staying on the show. I thought
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:28
that they were like, maybe gonna hand wave her, like, but, but
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:32
now, like, there's a couple of things that you've said, and I'm
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:34
like, do we see more of Abigail on this show? Like, is this
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:37
gonna become a thing?
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:39
I guess the fact that I just named her probably
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:41
tells you that she's gonna show up at least one more time.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:44
The fact that you know her name and remember
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:46
her name, I guess.
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:47
That's a spoiler by itself. Oh, Jeremy, thinks
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:51
that this is important enough to remember. I'm probably she's
Jeremy Greer:
01:40:53
probably gonna come up again.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:55
Cannot remember Will or Jack's name, but
Marie Vigouroux:
01:40:57
Abigail, yes, going to assume that this is a bit more
Marie Vigouroux:
01:41:00
important than I originally thought, but that is so alarming
Marie Vigouroux:
01:41:03
to me. What are they gonna do to this child?
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:05
What is what is going to happen next? Is the
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:08
question. So, yeah, that's our, that's our coverage of the
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:12
episode. Do you have any final thoughts before we get into the
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:15
reviews, the ratings?
Unknown:
01:41:18
No, I mean this, this final thought is genuinely that,
Unknown:
01:41:21
like, I loved every second of watching this.
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:25
I think it's as part of our - we mentioned that
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:27
this entire podcast, the idea for it and the execution came
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:31
within 48 hours. So and I just want to mention how funny it is
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:35
that, like, we suggested this, and there was at no point where
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:38
I was like, well, we should only do this if you like the show.
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:40
Like I never said that, because I just knew that Mary would love
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:43
it so much. There was no question of it.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:41:45
It feels like you're only the only thing you
Marie Vigouroux:
01:41:48
were worried about is that I was gonna binge it.
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:51
I was a little worried, yeah, no, you can't do
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:53
this. We release this every two weeks. This is gonna be a
Jeremy Greer:
01:41:56
project.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:41:57
Yeah. You were like, well, you know, it's gonna
Marie Vigouroux:
01:41:59
be hard because, like, there's some pretty big cliffhangers.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:42:01
And I was like, I can control myself. Like, I'll be fine. That
Marie Vigouroux:
01:42:07
was the discussion, not whether or not I was gonna like the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:42:09
show.
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:09
I think returning to this just a reminder of how
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:13
well executed the show is on all levels. There's, there's hardly
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:16
any, any fat to trim on this. On
this episode, everything is
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:19
very, very intentional and to the point and has us learned
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:24
something to the point where, like introducing characters,
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:26
like they don't even name some of these characters that we're
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:28
going to we're going to learn are reoccurring characters
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:30
throughout the show, like they do a really, really good job of
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:33
just laser sighting us into the stuff that's important, which is
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:37
mostly Hannibal and Will. And with that, we're going to jump
Jeremy Greer:
01:42:41
into our ratings.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:15
All right, so I would like to rate this episode,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:19
season one, episode, one aperitif with four stars,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:24
because with its mysterious, dark and bitter tones, its
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:28
splash of bubbles and its unexpected hint of sweetness,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:31
this aperitif leaves me wanting more and is sure to set the tone
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:35
for an unforgettable meal.
Jeremy Greer:
01:43:37
And I'm going to agree with you. I'm going to
Jeremy Greer:
01:43:38
give it four stars. I think it's a bold and surprisingly fruity
Jeremy Greer:
01:43:42
apparatus that is as craveable as it is delicious.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:46
It was, I mean, yes, it was definitely
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:48
surprisingly fruity. I didn't expect that to come up so
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:51
quickly, to be honest.
Jeremy Greer:
01:43:53
Who needs slow burn? You know what I'm saying?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:43:57
You covered a slow burn for like years, and
Marie Vigouroux:
01:44:00
I'm doing that right now, with Supernatural.
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:04
Finally. Finally, we don't have to wait 15
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:06
seasons. So thank you everybody for listening. We're obviously
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:12
recording this this very early, so we don't have all of our
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:14
social links and things. So I'll just point you to the Episode
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:17
notes for the show for links to all of our social medias. If you
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:22
want to support us, please consider leaving ratings and
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:25
reviews on Spotify and Apple podcast. But most importantly,
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:28
if you know anybody in the Hannibal fandom, or just
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:30
somebody who likes Hannibal, please, please just let them
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:33
know that the podcast exists. Organic growth is the only way
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:36
that podcasts really gain any kind of numbers or traction. So
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:38
we're relying on you, the listeners, to enjoy this enough
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:41
to tell your friends about it, tell your mom. Your mom probably
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:44
read these books teenagers. They were really big
in the 80s, so
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:48
your parents probably knew all about this. We love moms on this
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:50
podcast, right? I'm assuming, Mary, that you love moms?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:44:53
Yes, of course.
Jeremy Greer:
01:44:54
So please, please consider doing that,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:44:58
We want all the moms to listen to this.
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:00
Want every single mother.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:02
Every single mom.
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:02
Yeah, I'm gonna start advertising this on
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:04
Mothers Against Drunk Driving websites. That's gonna be the
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:06
that's our market. It's just moms.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:10
It is your mom's podcast, actually.
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:11
It is your mom's podcast. Tell everybody where
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:14
they can find you on the internet, Mary.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:16
So I can be found on Twitter as
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:21
@maryturner_, I'm pretty sure you can also find my other
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:24
podcast @carryingwayward and Jeremy, why don't you tell us
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:27
where we can find you on the internet.
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:29
I'm on Twitter, that very active on Twitter, but
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:31
you can find me at JG Greer, and you can find all of my other
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:34
cast at creepybutnecessary.coolbutnecessary.cool,
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:37
including podcast about Merlin, Supernatural, X Files and a
Jeremy Greer:
01:45:40
whole other bunch of stuff in between.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:42
Thank you everybody for listening, and we
Marie Vigouroux:
01:45:44
wish you bon appetit.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:01
Cool, cool, cool. Oh, this is so cool.
Jeremy Greer:
01:46:03
This is fun. I love new stuff, yes.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:07
Oh, this was a lot of fun. Now I want to watch
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:10
the second one.
Jeremy Greer:
01:46:11
Get after it. Do you usually, I know you watch
Jeremy Greer:
01:46:14
this twice? Do you usually watch like stuff twice? When you
Jeremy Greer:
01:46:16
record about it?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:18
It depends. So Supernatural, not really just
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:21
because I know the episodes already, but with our flag means
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:24
death, I was watching twice because they were all new
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:27
episodes to me. So I think this one I'm gonna have to watch
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:31
twice also because, like, if I look back at my original notes,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:34
like, I have no notes about, like, the killing scene at the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:37
end, except like, oh my god, that scene H's support the way
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:40
he grabbed that girl's neck, plus W's shock. That's it.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:43
That's all I have.
Jeremy Greer:
01:46:46
That's so funny to me.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:47
Oh yeah, there you go. So I think it's gonna be
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:51
important for me to watch stuff TWICE, Like, once, just to,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:54
like, get to know the material, and then a second time, like, to
Marie Vigouroux:
01:46:56
actually take notes. And for, for next time I think what I'll
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:00
do is that I'll also start, like, taking some or I can also,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:04
like, help you with the beat by beat. Because now that I see a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:06
little bit like, how you're doing it, I'm like, okay, all
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:08
right, so I can take over some of that from you, so that it's a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:11
bit more even. Because I was like, oh my god, I'm making him
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:13
do literally all of the talking.
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:15
I thought it was, I thought we, I thought we
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:17
breezed back and forth really easily. I thought that was
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:18
really smooth. There's only a couple of times where, like, one
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:21
of us didn't have a quite a thought prepared, and that's
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:23
easily taken care of and editing. So I'm not, I'm not
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:25
concerned about that at all.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:26
Okay.
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:27
So, but I thought we did great, especially for,
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:29
like, again, having podcasted before, but never, like, about
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:32
something structural. So like this, I think we did really,
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:34
really good. So pat on the back, high five.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:37
I think we did really well. Yes, high five.
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:39
High five.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:40
Yeah, considering that this, like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:41
came to life, like, 24 hours ago.
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:43
I think that we did really well. We're gonna
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:46
have like, 14 episodes back before Jake is, like, ready to
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:48
do the music.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:49
I know oh my god.
Jeremy Greer:
01:47:57
oh, Mary's here.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:47:58
Oh, hi, hello. I was like, Wait a second. Okay,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:01
so let me just read this.
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:03
Make sure everything is going fine.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:06
Let me just make sure that the right mic is
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:09
connected and that the right headphones are connected, and
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:12
everything seems like it's fine.
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:14
Yeah, you sound great. So I don't think it
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:16
should be aproblem. So I like using zencastr. I haven't moved
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:22
me and Chris to it yet, but I'm going to, since it just
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:25
basically has a backup of our audio when I start recording.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:27
I love that.
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:28
But I know you're going to, like, apply a
filter
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:30
to yours. So if you just want to upload your either mp3 or
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:33
wavfile to the drive the shareholder, I'll just pull it
Jeremy Greer:
01:48:37
from there, and if something happens, we'll have a backup.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:40
So yeah, that's perfect. That's usually we do
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:43
something similar also. So yeah, that's perfect. It's just
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:47
because, like, I have, for some reason when I speak, like, I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:51
don't know if it's my mic or my mouth, but like, there's a lot
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:53
of mouth clicks and so for anybody with like, misophonia,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:48:56
it's really hard to listen to me. So we found that using a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:49:01
declicker is really, really helpful for not hearing those.
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:07
Interesting, yeah, yeah, nobody's ever given us
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:10
that feedback. So I hope - I never heard that. So hopefully -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:49:16
No, but you guys, it doesn't you don't sound
Marie Vigouroux:
01:49:18
like that, because I hear it very, very much. And like, you
Marie Vigouroux:
01:49:20
guys don't sound like that at all. Your audio is always great.
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:24
The only thing I've ever heard was apparently,
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:27
at some point, podcasts were trying to do, like, imagine if,
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:32
like, you were in the left audio and Drew was in the right audio.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:49:36
Oh no.
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:37
And of course, like, if you're if you have any
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:39
kind of problems with your hearing, that would just
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:40
probably drive you absolutely crazy. So just like the absolute
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:43
so just like the absolute necessity, the thing that I've
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:44
always heard the absolute necessity, they're recording and
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:46
publish in mono, so it just puts it in both speakers.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:49:49
Oh my god, I can't even imagin.
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:52
It's not like we're passing this through like
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:53
a Dolby Atmos system anyway, most people are just like
Jeremy Greer:
01:49:58
running down the road with earphones on.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:02
Or at the grocery store, you know, or in
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:04
their car, it's fine, you know.
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:07
I guess we need to decide on a name before we go
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:09
We do. So I'm actually really sad that Good
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:09
too much
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:14
Eats can't work, because I really did love that. I thought
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:16
that was so fucking funny.
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:18
I love good eats. And I mean, we can, we can roll
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:21
the dice on it. I don't, I don't. I got away with using
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:25
Carry on my wayward son by Kansas and sponsor the week for
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:27
years. So, like -
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:29
I know! I can't believe that happened.
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:30
I just don't think people pay attention to podcasts
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:33
like that until they get huge, right? And at that point, I
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:37
think it's a good problem to have. Maybe the podcast formerly
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:40
known as Good Eats.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:50:40
Can you imagine?
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:49
So I'm willing to roll with good eats. If you are.
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:51
If not, then our other options that we were to discuss on last
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:54
night are all great. I think Autumn really liked Sunday roast
Jeremy Greer:
01:50:57
if we're gonna do it on Sundays. Chris, I haven't told Chris
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:01
anything. I was just like out of context. Pick a four. Context.
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:04
Pick a phrase cave in the first he doesn't even know what it is,
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:07
and he chose rude eats, which is, I think is a pretty good
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:12
variation on Good Eats. Yeah, you'll see. You saw a little bit
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:16
of it in this episode where, like Hannibal despises rudeness
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:19
in people. You can pick up on it when Franklin, like, puts the
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:25
the used tissue on the table, and he, like, Hannibal, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:28
stares at it, what did you just do?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:32
And just the way that he eats, right? Like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:34
there's a very specific way he's holding himself, like, very
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:36
straight, like, there's, there's the art of eating is definitely
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:42
there. Okay, well, I mean, in that case, I really like rude
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:45
eats too. Okay, I do like Sunday - because I find that it's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:49
like, the good - the the play on good eats, which I find, I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:51:53
thought that was hilarious.
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:54
Yeah, good eats was like, my I really fell in
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:57
love with it. As soon as I said it, I was like, Oh, I'm joking
Jeremy Greer:
01:51:59
about this. No, wait, haha, I'm serious.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:52:02
but actually, this is really good.
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:04
Oh, wait, this was a good idea. Oh no, oh no,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:52:07
oh no, undo it. I wish I hadn't thought of that.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:52:10
Well, let's, let's, let's roll with rude eats.
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:13
I'm into it. I'm going to rename our shared
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:17
folder to rude eats. I was thinking and tell me, tell me
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:23
your opinion about this. So I was thinking we could, I don't
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:26
know how much time you have today, so just, just let me
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:28
know. But I was thinking we
could do a trailer, and as part
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:32
of that trailer, also do introductions, so we could talk
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:35
about, like, our respective histories or lack thereof with
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:38
the franchise. That way, when we do the first episode, like we
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:42
could go right into the format without having to do all of that
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:45
work, right, like we could just go right into the episode. But I
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:47
don't, I don't know how much time you have today, so I don't
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:49
know if we can do both at the same time, or how do you wanted
Jeremy Greer:
01:52:51
to do it.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:52:52
So I am actually off today, because
Marie Vigouroux:
01:52:55
today is a stat holiday for us. So if we want to do that, I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:00
think that that would be a really good idea, because that
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:02
way, again, it's like one less thing to do, right? It's like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:05
just check, check, check.
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:07
And then we can, of course, we can't really edit
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:10
and publish these until we have music, but we'll all have, like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:13
placeholder stuff in place for, oh, I never looked at your Lyric
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:16
stuff. I got home. I forgot about it. I need to do that.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:18
Oh, my God. I need to see your reaction to
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:20
them. Some of them are kind of ridiculous.
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:31
Oh, I love this. Absolutely love this. I love the
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:36
way she gets just more and more desperate as that song goe.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:39
Exactly.
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:41
like it's just really, really funny. If we if I
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:44
was less ethical, I would try to do, like, an AI Mads Mickelson
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:47
voice to do this. I'm absolutely not going to do that.love this
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:52
Jack, what other thing have I asked you for? Oh, that's
Jeremy Greer:
01:53:54
perfect.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:56
Because I'm like, okay, because, like, Who
Marie Vigouroux:
01:53:57
is he talking to? He's talking to Jack. Okay, so, like, that's
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:00
what he wants.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:01
That's exactly the angle I had, too. Of like
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:04
Hannibal, like he meets Jack, and the jack is like, hiding
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:08
Will from him, essentially, right? But like giving him
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:10
access, and he's like, give me that boy. I want the boy.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:14
I don't care about anything else. Like, just give me the
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:15
boy.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:22
All right, do you want me to? Me to cut here?
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:24
I guess.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:24
No, just, I'll just keep all the audio in one
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:27
project for this, and just export the trailer separately,
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:30
that way we don't have to stop.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:31
Sounds good.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:32
Yeah, that was good. I think that's this is
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:34
gonna be great.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:34
That was fun. It was very cute. I liked it. I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:38
felt like people needed to know how this came to be because,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:40
like -
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:41
Yes, absolutely.I
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:43
I love it so much.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:44
48, hours later, yeah.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:47
Barely, like, I think, I think you threw out the
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:50
idea on a Friday and it's Mon - Saturday. Yeah, it was Saturday.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:54
It was Saturday.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:54:55
Oh, my God, we're insane.
Jeremy Greer:
01:54:56
I was driving home from picking up groceries.When I
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:00
was just in that song when I got home on the internet. So it was
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:04
very specifically, Saturday morning which is hilarious.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:14
You okay?
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:14
Yeah, just knocked over my microphone.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:17
Oh! I was like oh my God, did you fall? Jason
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:21
Derulo has fallen down the stairs.
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:23
I was trying to stand up and, like, move my body
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:26
a little bit and just straight up, knocked over the microphone.
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:29
So, yeah, drop a marker and just pick it up with the where he's
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:34
at on the spectrum. I'm gonna go from there.
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:41
Do you mind if we take a quick break? I'm gonna get some some
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:42
more water.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:43
Yeah, of course.
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:43
I'll be right back.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:44
Yep.
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:48
All right, I am back.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:50
Perfect. I brought myself, like, a very
Marie Vigouroux:
01:55:52
large glass of water because I was like, I don't know how long
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:55
I have a feeling these are gonna be, like, two
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:55
this is gonna take.
Jeremy Greer:
01:55:58
and a half hour episodes. And I love it, like I'm here for it.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:01
If you've got the time and the energy to put into that, I'm
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:03
100% into it because.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:05
Well, that's also why I'm like, let's just do
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:07
it, like, every other week, because then, like, there's,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:11
there's time.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:11
Yeah, exactly.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:12
Because I don't, I don't want to dis,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:14
quote, unquote, disappoint people by being like, Oh, yeah.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:16
Like, especially if it happens often that, like, we can't do it
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:19
every week. So yeah, there you go.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:21
I'm in -very much into that idea, yeah, when you,
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:24
when you, when you suggested bi weekly, I was like, Absolutely,
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:27
yeah. I kind of assumed that you and I were gonna get into like,
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:30
some really good details, like every single scene. And then
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:32
when I watched the episode again, I was like, oh no, oh no.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:35
There's so much to talk about. There's so much going on.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:40
Everything that happens, just like has a
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:42
purpose. And I love that kind of storytelling, like it's just so
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:46
good.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:46
It's so good. It really is.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:48
Oh, my God.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:49
I'm gonna take us back in.
Jeremy Greer:
01:56:52
What's gonna be ouroutro, what's a good like,
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:52
Yeah.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:56:58
outro, save, saveyour appetite. Don't fill up.
Marie Vigouroux:
01:57:03
Yeah, Bon appetit!
Marie Vigouroux:
01:57:05
Bon appétit is very good, yeah, let's do that. Yeah, I'm gonna
Marie Vigouroux:
01:57:09
let you. I'll let you take it from there.