Picking Nits
Chilton’s pen, Catherine’s food, missed moth evidence, Lecter’s elaborate escape, profiling by personal acquaintance, Precious’s capture, Miggs’s death, Lecter’s wine pairing and moral code, and Gumb’s target selection
In the discussion (11)
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- Chilton imposes exhaustive safety rules and then leaves a sharp pen with Lecter. — Chris Ryan
- Gumb is supposedly starving Catherine to loosen her skin, yet she has enough food and bone to lure Precious. — Mallory Rubin
- Investigators miss cocoons in multiple throats and fail to infer a skin suit from systematically removed body areas. — Mallory Rubin
- The most dangerous prisoner receives only two guards and no visible camera surveillance. — Bill Simmons
- Lecter fits perfectly into a guard’s clothes, removes his face cleanly, raises and stages the second body, and fools medical professionals while healthy.
- Lecter’s apparent profiling insight is weakened because he already knew Gumb as a patient. — Chris Ryan
- Catherine’s off-screen bucket capture of a small, skittish dog is treated as mechanically improbable. — Bill Simmons
- Miggs cannot physically swallow his own tongue without first severing it. — Bill Simmons
- Chianti is criticized as the wrong wine for liver and fava beans. — Bill Simmons
- Lecter’s disgust at Miggs’s sexual assault seems inconsistent with his own cannibalism, though the panel frames it as a strict code against rudeness. — Bill Simmons
- The panel asks whether Gumb knowingly chose a senator’s daughter for notoriety or failed to recognize her. — Chris Ryan