# Fear Itself 7/3
**URL:** https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250
**Category:** Cafe Society
**Created:** [July 3, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250 "2008-07-03T23:49:29Z")
**Posts on this page:** 11
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 11:49pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/1 "2008-07-03T23:49:29Z")
A rookie cop must look after a serial killer known as…The Eater!
Yum yum.
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### Author:  [@Leaper](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Leaper)
#### Post date: [July 3, 2008, 11:54pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/2 "2008-07-03T23:54:59Z")
Worse yet, the cop’s wife asked him to pick up some fava beans and chianti.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 8:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/3 "2008-07-04T20:18:10Z")
[QUOTE=Leaper]
Worse yet, the cop’s wife asked him to pick up some fava beans and chianti.
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Lecter quotes abounded in this ep., which by the way was quite intense and gory. The rookie’s last-gasp effort was, shall we say, very effective.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 8:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/4 "2008-07-04T20:26:11Z")
[QUOTE=vivalostwages]
A rookie cop must look after a serial killer known as…The Eater!
Yum yum.
[/QUOTE]
Please, sir, may I have a link to what the Hell you’re talking about? Is it a tv show or something? (I could look it up, but you felt like starting a thread, so I’ll leave it up to you.)
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### Author:  [@HeyHomie](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/HeyHomie)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 8:31pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/5 "2008-07-04T20:31:57Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
Please, sir, may I have a link to what the Hell you’re talking about? Is it a tv show or something? (I could look it up, but you felt like starting a thread, so I’ll leave it up to you.)
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A horror anthology show on NBC on Thursday nights at 8PM Central. It’s been hit and miss this season.
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### Author:  [@vivalostwages](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/vivalostwages)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 10:27pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/6 "2008-07-04T22:27:21Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
Please, sir, may I have a link to what the Hell you’re talking about? Is it a tv show or something? (I could look it up, but you felt like starting a thread, so I’ll leave it up to you.)
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Ma’am, actually. 😉
It comes on at 10pm my time, but anyway…I think they’re just running it for the summer but I could be wrong.
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### Author:  [@nivlac](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/nivlac)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 10:29pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/7 "2008-07-04T22:29:42Z")
Last night’s cannibalistic serial killer episode was a poor one. Very little originality and a stupid stupid ending.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 10:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/8 "2008-07-04T22:44:43Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
Please, sir, may I have a link to what the Hell you’re talking about? Is it a tv show or something? (I could look it up, but you felt like starting a thread, so I’ll leave it up to you.)
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Why sure; here you go: [“Fear Itself” on NBC](http://www.nbc.com/Fear_Itself/).
I had no idea a network was trying an anthology show again. Thanks for the heads-up. I see they have some episodes viewable on the site; I’ll check it out.
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### Author:  [@Baldwin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Baldwin)
#### Post date: [July 4, 2008, 11:48pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/9 "2008-07-04T23:48:47Z")
Okay, just watched “Eater”. That was pretty stupid. Are the other episodes any better? (And no mention of Ed Gein?)
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### Author:  [@elfkin477](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/elfkin477)
#### Post date: [July 5, 2008, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/10 "2008-07-05T02:26:12Z")
[QUOTE=Baldwin]
Okay, just watched “Eater”. That was pretty stupid. Are the other episodes any better? (And no mention of Ed Gein?)
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No.
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### Author:  [@fusoya](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/fusoya)
#### Post date: [July 8, 2008, 1:21am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/fear-itself-7-3/455250/11 "2008-07-08T01:21:56Z")
The best episode so far (although I didn’t see the previous week’s yet)…which isn’t really saying that much unfortunately. I do like that they at least referenced that they knew about the Silence of the Lambs character…although it was strangely inconsistent between the rookie cop being gothy and into horror, and her being creeped out by everything.