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Opening with a comment I made on Twitter:

Perks of still being in @NBCHannibal fandom: there are always new recipes. Fresh mozzarella, figs, and prosciutto.

(The prosciutto is not people.)

(Unless Whole Foods has *really* branched out.)

No, really. A lot of the good fic writers go out of their way to hunt through recipe websites to give Hannibal new things to cook, and give links!

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On the one hand, Penny Dreadful was a show that piled on a bunch of my favorite tropes: Gothic literature! Vampires! Witches! Victorian occultism! Really great costumes! On the other hand: The final season was a mess! The final episode was infuriating enough that I refuse to watch it again!

Hannibal didn't have any supernatural elements (things you had to suspend belief like crazy for), and the showrunner went super self-indulgent in the final season. <-- UNDERSTATEMENT. Siouxsie Sioux came out of semi-retirement to write the song for the final episode ("Love Crime"), and it's pretty much the moody ballad of the Murder Husbands.

And yet, I think I've come around to Hannibal being my favorite show. I still adore Penny Dreadful, don't get me wrong. But Hannibal finally edged it out.

(Okay, fine. Hannibal also has a wider selection of really good fic. What? That's important.)