Black Mirror (Crocodile)

"Her jaw aches from wanting and she's sick from chlorine / But she'll never be as clean / As the cool side of satin, Pauline" -Neko Case, "Margaret v. Pauline"

"Black Mirror" has demonstrated such cunning and moxy over the course of its run that the most surprising aspect of "Crocodile" is how stunningly average it is. Its final twist is cute, a riff you'll see coming and will enjoy anyway, but this is, in all other respects, the definintion of acceptable but uninspired, logical and well-paced and well-acted and well-shot, all enough to pass for a subpar "Hannibal" episode.

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