Cooper, Ophilia, and Miko Technogeisha sit down at Chicago's famous Golden Apple Grill & Breakfast House to discuss their evening's entertainment, seeing The Cornservatory's production of Silence! The Musical. After they discuss their favorite

Hannibal Rising – Eat The Rudecast

Oct 20th, 2015 1h 38m

Well, we pretty much hate on Hannibal Rising for about 90 minutes here. Thankfully this is not the last episode of Eat The Rudecast. Miko has read Hannibal Rising as a novel, and fills in how poorly Thomas Harris adapted his own poorly written

Cooper Live Tweets Hannibal Rising – A Taste of the Podcast To Come

Oct 16th, 2015

Good evening, friends. Cooper here. While I usually take copious notes on episodes and films, I couldn’t bring myself to do so for Hannibal Rising, which, unsurprisingly, was just as poor a film as I’d feared.Instead of taking notes, though, I

Hannibal – Eat The Rudecast

Oct 6th, 2015 3h 24m

We're joined by frequent guest and friend of the show Kate Kulzick, contributor to The AV Club and PopOptiq, and host of our favorite Hannibal podcast This is Our Design and wide ranging TV podcast The Televerse to discuss Ridley Scott's 2001 f

Silence of the Lambs – Eat The Rudecast

Sep 29th, 2015 3h 51m

After the decent Manhunter and the unacceptably mediocre Red Dragon, we tackle Silence of the Lambs, and are quick to point out that we all adore this film. It's one of the greatest horror movies, and certainly the greatest serial killer film o

Red Dragon – Eat The Rudecast

Sep 21st, 2015 2h 18m

We begin the Anthony Hopkins Lecter Trilogy with arguably the worst of the three of them, Red Dragon, an ill advised eleven years later prequel that finds us with an incredibly uninteresting Will Graham in Edward Norton, serviceable at best Dol

Manhunter – Eat The Rudecast

Sep 15th, 2015 2h 56m

We're joined by Sean Colletti, the other half of the This is Our Design team to discuss an epic example of '80s movie, Michael Mann's Manhunter, the first filmic adaptation of Red Dragon, as we begin our analysis of the Hannibal Lecter film ser

Hannibal S03E13 – The Wrath of the Lamb – Eat The Rudecast

Sep 1st, 2015 2h 32m

For the third season running, Bryan Fuller et al have managed to shock us silent with the revelations and twists that bring the season to the close. With this finale possibly being a bit more final than the other two, we discuss whether it's po

Hannibal S03E12 – The Number of the Beast is 666 – Eat The Rudecast

Aug 25th, 2015 2h 1m

We're joined by an out of town friend, fan of the podcast and the show, Raina, as we discuss the penultimate episode of our season (hopefully not series). Raul Esparza gives his best performance of the series, Richard Armitage creates an otherw

Hannibal S03E11 – …And the Beast from the Sea – Eat The Rudecast

Aug 18th, 2015 1h 49m

Formerly NBC's Hannibal goes far off-book with this episode, taking us to a place where we smug book readers are just as uncertain about what is to come in the final two episodes of the season. The Red Dragon is thrown at Will's family in a ten

Hannibal S03E10 – And the Woman Clothed in Sun – Eat The Rudecast

Aug 11th, 2015 2h 12m

We're halfway through the Red Dragon arc on Hannibal, and are being given both stunning beauty in the scenes between Dolarhyde and Reba, and stunning acts of CGI crappery (see the below CGI teeth). We go off on several tangents, Cooper calls so

Hannibal S03E09 – And the Woman Clothed with the Sun – Eat The Rudecast

Aug 4th, 2015 2h 11m

The Red Dragon arc reaches the beauty that separates this work of fiction from so many in this genre with the introduction of Reba McClain (Rutina Wesley) and beginning to peel back the story of Francis Dolarhyde. Meanwhile Will and Hannibal be

Hannibal S03E08 – The Great Red Dragon – Eat The Rudecast

Jul 28th, 2015 2h

We're joined by Kate Kulzick from Sound on Sight‘s Hannibal podcast This is Our Design joins us to discuss the rise of The Great Red Dragon, as Miko completes her summer walkabout in a vacation home with poor wifi. Cooper is a bit jarred by the

Hannibal S03E07 – Digestivo – Eat The Rudecast

Jul 21st, 2015 2h

An episode that could very well be the series finale, as it brings us all the way up to the beginning of the Thomas Harris novels (excluding Hannibal Rising). The Italy portion of this season comes to a close, as does Mason Verger's story line.

Hannibal S03E06 – Dolce – Eat The Rudecast

Jul 14th, 2015 1h 39m

Everything comes to a head in Florence, as Hannibal's time there is nearly at an end. Bedilia puts her drug and confusion filled plan into effect, Mason, Margot, & Alana go to plan B, and Will is briefly reunited with Jack, before getting to th

Hannibal S03E05 – Contorno – Eat The Rudecast

Jul 7th, 2015 1h 45m

The tragic hubris of Inspector Pazzi comes to a head in an episode that gave us severe déjà vu from the film version of Hannibal. We lament that his story was rather brief, and a single line change from the text leads Cooper down a complaint pa

Hannibal S03E04 – Aperitivo – Eat The Rudecast

Jun 30th, 2015 1h 52m

A bang up episode that finds Chilton running his Avengers Initiative, Dead Abigail, and post Red Dinner origins for all of our characters. We meet Joe Anderson's version of Mason Verger and are quite pleased, as well as find out what happened (

Hannibal S03E03 – Secondo – Eat The Rudecast

Jun 22nd, 2015 1h 45m

So, now the question: Did Hannibal kill and eat his younger sister Mischa? Was she his first victim? This is the major overarching discussion of this third episode of Hannibal's third season. Cooper is a bit exhausted by the slowness and didn't

Hannibal S03E02 – Primavera – Eat The Rudecast

Jun 16th, 2015 1h 5m

At once an episode full of hallucinations and dream logic, and an episode that follows a very straight forward timeline. Will Graham wakes up after the events of the Red Dinner and heads to Italy himself. There he encounters Inspector Pazzi fro

Hannibal S03E01 – Antipasto – Eat The Rudecast

Jun 9th, 2015 1h 47m

And we're back! Hannibal roars back onto our screens on a motorcycle in Paris, stalking his prey. This tremendous season opener written by Bryan Fuller & Steve Lightfoot, and directed by Cube director Vincenzo Natali wastes no time in proclaimi

Hannibal Season 3 Appetizer – Eat The Rudecast & This is Our Design S03E01 Mashup!

Jun 5th, 2015 1h 32m

As we prep season 3 of Eat The Rudecast, which begins early next week, we have an appetizer for you. Miko, Ophilia, and I were thrilled to join Sean Colletti and Kate Kulzick on their show This is Our Design to talk S03E01: Antipasto. We have o

Hannibal S02E13 – Mizumono – Eat The Rudecast

Jan 25th, 2015 3h 2m

We are joined at the table once again by Kate Kulzick from Sound On Sight, The Televerse Podcast, and our progenitor the This is Our Design Hannibal podcast. The reason for our expanded table is that we have arrived at the finale! Tonight, the

Hannibal S02E12 – Tome-wan – Eat The Rudecast

Jan 18th, 2015 1h 27m

Mason Verger is disturbed to find himself not the star of a show called Verger, but merely the “little-bad” on a show called Hannibal. The final pieces are put in place for the epic season finale, and a guest star returns. All on this episode o

Hannibal S02E11 – Kō No Mono – Eat The Rudecast

Jan 12th, 2015 1h 48m

We can barely contain our excitement as Hannibal has multiple sessions with Mason Verger, the reveal and deveal of Freddie Lounds fate occurs, the windego morphs into Shiva, and the game changes significantly for Will and Hannibal when it comes

Hannibal S02E10 – Naka-Choko – Eat The Rudecast

Jan 5th, 2015 1h 41m

We're thrilled to meet Mason Verger, played by Michael Pitt, as our story kicks over into end game and mini-series blasts its way toward the fight conclusion. This episode offers one of the most unnerving tableaus in the sabertooth Randal Tier