Aug 26, 2026 · 52 min · 14 segments
He asks you to ask questions about yourself, All the while imagining a scalpel-sharp blade Severing your horizontal fissure, Soft pink cubes soon soaked in vinegar For ten minutes or more…
Those guys make movies.
I think anytime these guys, and these guys being Brian Fuller and all the other producers, there's a fucking lot of them.
But most of them are show writers and stuff, but we'll get into that.
They know enough about TV to make sure you get a big TV face or even a movie face like that goes a long way.
It, I don't know why it does, but it really does.
And it's
just, it's presence.
It's a, what are the kids say nowadays? It's so aura, man.
Oh,
they got the aura.
I got it.
Cause, cause you really notice it when, so this story is like, what if, what if Hannibal Lecter, cause like we know from the original movie, although I've never read the book, but I'm, I understand that this is also in the book.
yes.
Some sort of close relationship that was never dramatized in the original book.
And so this movie, this TV show is just like, let's dramatize that space.
It fills up that space of fandom.
Um, and so Mads Mikkelsen plays Hannibal Lecter and Lawrence Fishburne plays, uh, the FBI director Crawford.
I don't know if he's actually a character, uh, in the original books.
Those guys make movies.
I think anytime these guys, and these guys being Brian Fuller and all the other producers, there's a fucking lot of them.
But most of them are show writers and stuff, but we'll get into that.
They know enough about TV to make sure you get a big TV face or even a movie face like that goes a long way.
It, I don't know why it does, but it really does.
And it's
just, it's presence.
It's a, what are the kids say nowadays? It's so aura, man.
Oh,
they got the aura.
I got it.
Cause, cause you really notice it when, so this story is like, what if, what if Hannibal Lecter, cause like we know from the original movie, although I've never read the book, but I'm, I understand that this is also in the book.
yes.
Some sort of close relationship that was never dramatized in the original book.
And so this movie, this TV show is just like, let's dramatize that space.
It fills up that space of fandom.
Um, and so Mads Mikkelsen plays Hannibal Lecter and Lawrence Fishburne plays, uh, the FBI director Crawford.
I don't know if he's actually a character, uh, in the original books.
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