HANNIBAL on NBC seems amazing and therefore deserves it's own thread!

yeah, the torrents are just the "webisode" version ripped

well it DOES exist somewhere, as my sister downloaded it and i've watched it. i'll ask her where she found it

here, i think this tumblr links to a streaming version, it's got subtitles but it's still got the english dialogue

http://hanniballecters.tumblr.com/post/49154688686/stream-hannibal-ep-4-full

hmm ok

ahhh this show is so GROSS but i love it.

i need to rewatch the pilot because i don't really remember how hannibal came to be so intimately involved with all these people's lives. like, as far as i can tell everyone just seems to like hanging out with him? which is hilarious and charming actually, and it allows him to do boundary-pushing shit like check abigail out of the hospital and they just go "oh hannibal, you rapscallion."

He's presumably there to be Will's therapist but also report back to Crawford whether or not Will is suitable for field work. There was also the implication that Crawford thinks Will might be capable of murder, and Hannibal's supposed to alert him if that seems to be the case.

But yeah, the entire setup is pretty lolsy wolf-in-sheep's-den stuff

I have a few days left of my free Hulu Plus trial, I'm gonna give this a try

*narrows eyes* it better be good

Do it!

On a related note I am a little sad because it's been getting abysmal ratings and is likely to be cancelled. Otoh it is NBC so who knows.

They would be crazy to cancel it, especially as they commission garbage like Revolution. Oooh! We finally see Hannibal getting his hands dirty in ep 6 rather than it being manipulative controlling/implied/offscreen. This is def a series worth sticking with.

Even when an actor like Mikkelsson isn't at the top of his game he is still awesome, He has this sexy/ugly/dangerous aura that is very rare.

Show is still doing better than a lot of other Thursday 10pm shows in recent years. Also it's an international co-production so that helps with the costs.

tv by the numbers has it as cancelled (though it's been bouncing around), if nbc has any sense they'll stick w/ it for at least another season, seems like the kind of show that dvd release could help build word of mouth. if they had been smart they could've launched it during summer, release the dvd around halloween so it's out for xmas, then launch second season on the back of one of the voice nights in the spring. if this thing was on amc it'd be a hit.

http://www.putlocker.com/file/576933AA15ABB1B8&smaller

Allegedly, anyway; I'm slowly downloading it now

OK, wait, never mind, looks like someone posted the exact same link earlier. Why didn't I check here first :(

It's on eztv

it's not on huluplus, it's web only on hulu. wtf you dumb hulu twits

yeah if hulu plus was remotely the service it should be i'd consider subscribing

yeah even with the free trial i'm like who the fuck would pay $7 a week for this nonsense

It does have criterion

omg this show is actually about locavorism

Two episodes in, this is fucking ludicrous. But I think I kind of like it.

Will Graham's always correct intuitive leaps are pretty hilarious.

Seven dollars a week? JFC

Hulu's $7 a month, iirc

oops lol yeah that would be steep huh

just started this, hope it at least lasts the whole season. pilot was wonderful, second episode less so (journalist woman is fucking annoying).

anyway reminds me of Millenium more than anything else which is good

Just cancelled Hulu Plus - for almost the same $ I'll add Blu Rays to Netflix again and have access to all the Criterions

why is the reporter always wearing those gloves

just in case there's a crime scene she needs to snoop around at a moment's notice. although in that case she ought to wear a hairnet everywhere too.

ha i was wondering the same thing

Yeah, I assumed it was so she wouldn't leave prints. She dresses in a very comic book supervillain sort of way, though.

http://www.nytimes.com/2013/05/08/business/media/the-office-gets-an-extra-15-minutes-to-say-goodbye.html?hpw

His campaign won out with NBC’s announcement on Tuesday of the additional 15 minutes, a move that harks back to the old NBC strategy of “supersizing” its comedy hits — letting them run a bit longer than their specific half-hour time periods. (NBC will accommodate the extra time by squeezing the drama that follows, “Hannibal,” to run from 10:15 to 11, with fewer commercials.)

man fuck the office

better, eat the office's face, with some kind of vegetable

If it just means fewer commercials I'm fine with that!

I'm so sick of the Office, though -- maybe there could be a very special episode of Hannibal where he kills and eats the employees of Dunder Mifflin.

I haven't watched it for a few years but the tail end that I see before Parks & Rec looks soooooooooo emo and terrible

Community is ending its season tonight and there's just an Office repeat on after it so I don't know what they've got on at the 8pm hour next week unless (probably) some mawkish clip show retrospective.

The problem with starting Hannibal later, even if it has fewer commercials, is that any kind of scheduling deviation tends to have a negative effect on new, struggling shows. The upside, maybe, is that Office viewers will be stuck 15 minutes into the 10pm hour and might just watch it because everything else has started.

u guys I just started watching the pilot :D :D

http://25.media.tumblr.com/a8fb19d439268028acd98c27e8e3fc78/tumblr_mmji45kiuh1qhgyyeo6_250.gif

this show is invidious plodding garbage, mikkelsen's charisma alone does not equal having the wit to pull off csi magicaltortureporn

wait is hannibal supposed to be a bad guy or something? no fair spoilers from people who read the books

xpost oh yay lord of darkness is here

like he seems like a pretty together guy so far. glad he's there for will and abigail to lean on.

xp i am a part of you all

Did you miss the part where he gave the serial killer a heads-up phone call?? Xp

There is no torture porn in Hannibal, some bloody horrible human organ food pornography though. If you are willing to forgo some of the psychobabble and ride along with it is an enjoyable series. I don't know what expectations some folk itt have watching an NBC series but this one has so far exceeded mine.

one thing I'm digging about the show is the gesture toward gender parity. even though alanna, freddie, and the forensics lady aren't quite as central as hannibal, will, and jack, the female guest stars have been great (gina torres especially). and gillian anderson tonight yesssssss

the chick playing lounds is great

i think the relational setup between the characters is pretty complicated already - could easily be wasted but something good could come of it. one possibly benevolent manipulator/exploiter, one covert malevolent lead who is already infamous for the audience, a suffering 'good' in-show counterpart who everyone basically already treats openly like he's one step away from a serial killer, a morally flexible careerist who will probably end up being given kind of a thing for evil if she's not just the victim of her own incautiousness, the friendly/caring quantico woman, some mentoring-type stuff thrown off on both sides (lecter on his, fishburne on his), some investigative staff, even a dying wife already. and the characters around will are basically in collusion about him except that they're professional peers so that they and he can in some ways acknowledge that they're in collusion about him.

gillian anderson!!!?

a d&d-style moral orientation setup would probably work well for this show