I'm not as pleased with Anderson.

Yeah, you never are, it seems, but your obvious disdain for the actress shouldn't prevent you from paying attention to the show that you criticize. There are good reasons why Anderson's characters in both The Fall and Hannibal are guarded and why Bedelia talks slowly. They are all in the scripts, so repeating that you hate the slowness in every single post is annoying as (mouth of) hell.   

You also wrote that Bedelia is "a sad, pathetic coward who doesn't act out her kinks", which, to me at least, suggests a fundamental lack of understanding of the character. Bedelia did act out her kinks - she crushed the bird, after all (although the way the scene with Neal is shot allows for various interpretations, because it seems that Bedelia's first impulse was to help the patient), but she is too rational and not depraved enough (like the happily amoral Hannibal) to want to relive that experience. Bedelia is essentially a survivor. Like other characters in the show, however, she has a serious problem with self-perception, but she's far from being delusional, merely good at acting delusional. Based on the 3.10 conversations it's Will (at least in his season 3 version) who seems to be a coward. For once, her advice to him makes perfect sense: maybe he'll use it when dealing with Dollarhyde and, ultimately, Hannibal?    

All in all, the Italian adventure was a great research opportunity for Bedelia. However, I suspect Hannibal may have not quite lived up to her expectations. ;)    

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