CRIT!

One bathroom homage to The Shining just wasn’t enough for Bryan Fuller.

Gillian Anderson’s multi-episode arc on NBC’s Hannibal begins tonight.

(If you haven’t been watching this show, catch up. It’s really great. Plus, Gillian Anderson!)

Katie drew me for my birthday and it rules!

Bryan Fuller on Hannibal’s Shining homage: I’ve been wanting to do the bathroom [set] forever. I tried to do it several times on Pushing Daisies but we always had budget restrictions and I wanted it to be exactly like that bathroom. Every show I’ve done I wanted to build a bathroom that looked like that space. What’s so remarkable about it is it’s a purely psychological space. You were inside this secret corner of Jack Torrance’s mind where the ghost of Overlook’s past has cornered him and is having a conversation about killing his family. It’s almost like a fantasy bathroom that actually doesn’t exist in reality because it’s anachronistic to the rest of the ballroom — it’s such a stark juxtaposition to everything else that we’re seeing at the hotel. It’s like they dipped the entire set in blood. Like it’s some symbolic weapon that hadn’t entirely penetrated the victim. That impressed me the most and had the biggest impression on me. I understood watching it as a 10 year old that this was psychological storytelling. He wasn’t concerned what was real or what was not real. (x)

If I was Dave Grohl, I’d probably also have a portrait of myself hanging in my studio.