The Rewatchables ·
Who won the movie
Anthony Hopkins
Roger Ebert
Cruise or Hanks
Tom Cruise
Dion Waiters Award
Buffalo Bill
The Stephen A. Smith Hottest Take Award · 1:28:26
Lecter is called an incredible therapist for rapidly identifying and resolving Clarice’s childhood trauma.
Catherine is said to deserve death because she endangered Precious; the take is tied to the participant’s animal-first stance.
The Coach Finstock Award for Best Life Lesson · 2:05:19
Bill Simmons: The panel explicitly frames Catherine’s abduction as a lesson against helping an isolated stranger load furniture.
Selected cast credits · Film reference
In the order the hosts got to it. Open a row for the discussion.
Buffalo Bill’s multi-room dungeon
Split: Lecter killing the guards (two choices); Clarice recounting the lambs; the first Clarice–Lecter meeting
Chris Isaak’s conspicuous SWAT cameo
Jonathan Demme’s framing and editing, the poster and score, Easter eggs, antagonist construction, and compact runtime
Gumb’s tuck dance
Lecter’s angel-like staging of Lieutenant Boyle’s body
“Goodbye Horses”
Lecter’s extra-rare lamb chops
Darla
Jack Crawford
Jack Crawford
The mishandled sequel/prequel franchise, opening typography, profiling pseudoscience, political appropriation of Lecter, Foster’s accent, and trans implications
No single winner: Charles Napier, Anthony Heald, and Brooke Smith
No conventional two-person sex scene; a solo Miggs webisode (jokingly)
No replacement title
Lecter is a superb therapist; Catherine deserved punishment for endangering Precious; Hopkins’s Oscar category was fraudulent; The Father is his better performance
Hackman and Connery for Lecter or Crawford; Pfeiffer and others for Clarice; Ed Harris for Crawford; several alleged Lecter auditions (some uncertain)
Buffalo Bill
No performance recast; Baltimore rather than Pittsburgh as the filming location
Doris Burke
Lecter’s hockey-mask maker, Gumb’s house sale, serial-killer inspirations, Brooke Smith’s preparation, Francis Bacon imagery, and the Bahamas finale
Jonathan Demme, Anthony Hopkins, Q Lazzarus, face-wearing, and Chris Isaak
“Tuck Dance”
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
The property already has a sequel, prequel, and two television series; the panel notes the absence of a Miggs or Buffalo Bill prequel.
This discussion recalls a choice from an earlier episode.
Wayne Jenkins (closing choice); Byron Mayo (another preference)
Split: Jodie Foster; Anthony Hopkins; Best Picture
Miggs’s name, Lecter’s cannibalism, Gumb’s music, victim pets, Chilton’s fate, personnel consequences, Precious’s custody, and whether Gumb invented Pinterest
Imagined futures: Precious is rehomed; Lecter eats Chilton and visits Epstein Island; Clarice and Crawford start a family, or Clarice dates a moth expert
The lotion and basket
Never help a creepy stranger move furniture into a van.
