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I really enjoyed this but it could be because I've read the book so I'm enjoying seeing elements of Clarice's backstory that there wasn't time for the films to explore. However, I do agree with one of the other review that say the show is too centralised on the protagonist. There are some other really interesting characters in this show and it would be great for them and the subplots to be more fleshed out.

A sort of weak and dragging episode, all because of the writers and not the cast. It seems that it won't go anywhere interesting. The next 3 episodes will show.

This episode is adventurous and genuinely pretty creepy. Excellent performance by Rebecca Breeds, finally feel like we're peeling back some of Clarice's layers and trauma.

This series started with so much promise but the last two episodes have been particularly bad.

This show is too focused in on Clarice, it leaves no room for side plots. The whole episode was spent watching Clarice zone in and out of consciousness and not one second adding anything meaningful to the storyline.

I wanted to like Clarice but it's proving hard to warm up to. This episode is the low point so far. I hope they turn this around.

I realize the episode probably appealing to someone. Just not me

It hangs too heavy on the same video clips inspired by the movie. Over the top visual effects of psycho babble. Cheap ending to keep the conspiracy going.

Really wanted to just turn it off. But i am hoping show will turn back around. Just wishing it was Hannibal. That show got off the rails with high art imagery and out there episodes. But the core was suspenseful, intriguing and a mystery crime show above all.

I fear clarice is more a lifetime channel drama that tries to be scary too

This episode was painful. The medical errors are jarring as is the weird hospice/care home setting. The relationship between Clarice and her roommate feels very unreal and forced: There's no real chemistry between any of the leads and the few bright spots of connection (moments in episode 2 and 4) don't go anywhere. I can't stop watching but at this point it's out of morbid curiosity to see how bad it can get.

Clarice has been a huge disappointment so far, but this episode went above and beyond to take the series to new depths of awfulness. TERRIBLE writing. Bad acting. Boring plot. It's like the producers couldn't come up with enough of a story to fill 10 episodes, so they told the writers to fill up the middle of the series with the worst parody of 1970s TV they could come up with. Take the worst episode of The Bionic Woman you can remember, make it about 10 times more boring, and you'll start to approach how bad this episode was.

It's a shame this series is this bad. It didn't have to be. Obviously the showrunner and producers have zero original ideas and no concept of how to write a compelling and interesting story. CBS, please put this show out of its misery.

What the hell did I just watch? The story arc for the last 2 episodes has been absolutely ridiculous. Almost unwatchable. If the show doesn't improve quickly, they will lose their audience & likely be cancelled.

"Silence of the Lambs" is, hands down, one of my favorite films of all-time. As such, I was intrigued by "Clarice" and its focus on the lead character of that movie. Her working in the FBI after the Buffalo Bill ordeal seemed like a great premise for a show. CBS must have thought so too, what with this being the horse they bet on with Super Bowl ads and the like. Unfortunately, "Clarice" is plagued by just about every problem a network show can be saddled with, rendering it a pretty terrible effort by almost every measuring stick.

For a very basic overview, "Clarice" follows its titular character, Agent Clarice Starling (Rebecca Breeds), as she returns to FBI service following her capture of the serial killer Buffalo Bill (as seen in "Lambs"). Still bunking with fellow greenhorn Ardelia (Devyn A. Tyler) and hounded by supervisor Krendler (Michael Cudlitz), Clarice again ventures out into investigative work.

To zero in on the biggest problem with "Clarice", as a series: it should be about Agent Starling's emotional and psychological journey following the events of "Lambs". It is not. It drops a few patronizing hints or flashes here and there, but five episodes in and "Clarice" is a paint-by-numbers CBS-formula procedural and nothing more. Those intriguing flashes of Bill and dog Precious? They haven't meant a thing. The tease of saved Bill victim Catherine Martin (Marnee Carpenter)? Exactly that--a tease.

Sadly, "Clarice" looks for all the world to be a series that has a tremendous property and absolutely no idea how to handle it. Halfway through its slate of ten episodes, there has not been a single hour that has impressed me in any meaningful way. Not allowing even the name "Hannibal Lector" to be spoken (via a character rights dispute) certainly doesn't help matters, as that is (or should be) a key part of Starling's psyche. Also, all the "big talk" about the series representing a woman standing up to the FBI "boys club"? That amounts to about one or two pithy, out-of-place lines per episode.

The final straw? In a series with so many angles (either physical or emotional) that could be interestingly explored, the show-runners here concoct a musty, confusing, bureaucratic plot regarding paid assassins (to be honest, I never really understood what was transpiring). This would be a bad series even if with an original concept/idea, and it's an outright slap in the face to "Lambs" fans (or those who enjoyed the "Hannibal" series from about a decade back).

I wish I had more kind words for "Clarice", but that is simply not the case. It was a struggle to even will myself through five of these slogs, and at that point I knew there was no way I'd continue the rest of the way out of loyalty to the franchise. If this is as good as "Clarice" gets, let it die on the vine.

Parts of the series are ok and promising but there's too much dumb stuff. Most of that is related to stupid silence of the lamb flashbacks thrown into the story, but now there's this episode. Omg I could not stand clarice in her drug induced situation and flashblacks blah blah blah so I ended up fast forwarding most of her scenes. It's weird that the side characters are becoming more interesting than the main character the show is named after. They really should utilize the cast more and seriously move away from Silence of the lamb crap and move the f*#% forward.

This episode felt very wrong and misplaced. Are they out of ideas?