Hannibal 3x04: "Aperitivo"

[cleolinda]

So this was the week that the hammer dropped.

NBC Has Canceled "Hannibal"

I did not take it well.

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Footnote: Margot Verger background

[cleolinda]

Margot doesn't appear in the movie, so Katharine Isabelle is her first portrayal. And yet, Show Margot is an almost entirely different character.

A broad-shouldered person with short blond hair swung down from the saddle, handed the reins to a valet without looking at him. “Walk him back,” the rider said in a deep scratchy voice. “I’m Margot Verger.” At close inspection she was a woman, holding out her hand, arm extended straight from the shoulder. Clearly Margot Verger was a bodybuilder. Beneath her corded neck, her massive shoulders and arms stretched the mesh of her tennis shirt. Her eyes had a dry glitter and looked irritated, as though she suffered from a shortage of tears. [Implication: Because Mason has taken them for his martinis.] She wore twill riding breeches and boots with no spurs.

[Margot and Clarice talk cars pretty companionably; Margot defends Clarice later in absentia when Krendler starts getting crude.The twill riding breeches whistled on Margot Verger’s big thighs as she climbed the stairs. Her cornsilk hair had