this show is like the serial killer version of The Grifters
fuckin Bedelia even! goddamn
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 May 2014 21:49 (ten years ago) link
i actually didn't dig the ep that much, storytelling was nonexistent
― j., Saturday, 24 May 2014 22:31 (ten years ago) link
The storytelling was all in Mads Mikkelsen's face, which can somehow tell you a million things without actually moving a muscle. The moment when he realises that Will is going through with the plan to betray him is weirdly heartbreaking.
― Roz, Saturday, 24 May 2014 22:39 (ten years ago) link
also
"Hannibal!... Where's Jack?""In the pantry."
― Roz, Saturday, 24 May 2014 22:41 (ten years ago) link
i can get that, it's just, so many episodes have this very statuesque dramatic structure (if that artistic combo makes sense), and this one…
maybe i'm thinking of tracer hand's (mark s's?) legendary mise-en-scene
― j., Saturday, 24 May 2014 22:48 (ten years ago) link
I love the way Mads moves as violent Hannibal, lightning quick & precise
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Saturday, 24 May 2014 23:44 (ten years ago) link
"The moment when he realises that Will is going through with the plan to betray him is weirdly heartbreaking."
He sniffs at Will and detects some trace of Abigail, this bit was so creepy.
― xelab, Sunday, 25 May 2014 01:51 (ten years ago) link
^ freddie
― j., Sunday, 25 May 2014 02:11 (ten years ago) link
oh yeah freddie.
― xelab, Sunday, 25 May 2014 02:13 (ten years ago) link
yeah that hair thing was freaky
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 May 2014 02:36 (ten years ago) link
so...abby was in hannibal's attic all this time? or...
?
she was in his custody somehow, that's pretty much all that is known
― building a desert (art), Sunday, 25 May 2014 02:43 (ten years ago) link
sous chef maybe idk
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Sunday, 25 May 2014 02:50 (ten years ago) link
Fuller's post-finale: http://www.avclub.com/article/hannibals-bryan-fuller-discusses-bloody-jaw-droppi-204896
he explains Bedelia's motivations a bit, also suggests that Beverly found Abigail in the basement before she was killed.
― Roz, Sunday, 25 May 2014 05:22 (ten years ago) link
BF: [Laughs.]
― j., Sunday, 25 May 2014 13:47 (ten years ago) link
xp - i am stoked beyond words that season 3 is meant to explore the lecter backstory.
― building a desert (art), Sunday, 25 May 2014 14:28 (ten years ago) link
Glad Fuller doesn't like Hannibal Rising
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Sunday, 25 May 2014 14:33 (ten years ago) link
plus the actual Hannibal origin story doesn't work given the temporal impossibility of Mads having escaped the Nazis on the eastern front
― building a desert (art), Sunday, 25 May 2014 14:36 (ten years ago) link
Doesn't seem to stop the keepers of the X-Men movie franchise
― a strange man (mh), Monday, 26 May 2014 01:56 (ten years ago) link
heh "silence on the lam"
― r|t|c, Monday, 26 May 2014 19:22 (ten years ago) link
i spent ten hours of this show waiting for a payoff the episode seemed to promise, like, 'jack is stabbed but puts a door between himself and hannibal - what happens to jack next?'
'jack bleeds out'
great thanks show
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Monday, 26 May 2014 21:02 (ten years ago) link
*first episode
The "payoff" has been the crowning glory of this series, the last few episodes were very strong and that was easily the best conclusion of any series in recent times. Whatever you were waiting for was never going to arrive.
― xelab, Tuesday, 27 May 2014 00:08 (ten years ago) link
hardmanned over network tv
― ♛ LIL UNIT ♛ (thomp), Tuesday, 27 May 2014 05:27 (ten years ago) link
https://twitter.com/ZooHannibal
― Roz, Wednesday, 28 May 2014 05:40 (ten years ago) link
lol
― set the controls for the heart of the sun (VegemiteGrrl), Wednesday, 28 May 2014 05:49 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQe6mCJXkA
― Insane Prince of False Binaries (Gukbe), Thursday, 29 May 2014 15:50 (ten years ago) link
Goddamn Mads is good at what he does. He's invested so much energy into being subtle that the tiniest variation in volume or tone completely shakes the viewer up. Also his acting in the fight scene -- he does this thing at the end of every move, a kind of "there you go" -- this show rules.
― Three Word Username, Monday, 2 June 2014 10:37 (ten years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXopTehvZs
Who's the young man with the red bandanna around his neck?
― Three Word Username, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:05 (ten years ago) link
!! Amazing.
I did wonder whether he was a dancer before (he moves like one) and now I know. :D
― Roz, Tuesday, 3 June 2014 16:15 (ten years ago) link
I miss this show. Very glad it got picked up for a third season, but damnit I miss this show.
― Survivalist Compound Row (B.L.A.M.), Saturday, 7 June 2014 17:04 (ten years ago) link
Finally caught up on the last couple of episodes, pretty shocking and definitely the strongest run the show's had so far. Probably helps that I've finally abandoned ascribing ideas of logic and plausibility to the thing and started treating it like a fever dream.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:13 (ten years ago) link
Pitt was a revelation by the way, only seen him in BE before which didn't really indicate he had these kind of chops.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:14 (ten years ago) link
And I kind of hope everyone's dead and next season is a clean slate.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Thursday, 26 June 2014 01:15 (ten years ago) link
Just watched the second season in the course of a week and the post that most clearly sums up my experience is:
Oh yeah. I think one of the reasons this show works so well is that it doesn't assume that it's smarter than its audience, but assumes that its audience is really really smart and looking for fun.― Three Word Username, Monday, May 5, 2014 11:58 AM (2 months ago)
Very much looking forward to Mads and Scully solving crimes and eating people across the Australian outback in 2015
― go ahead. make vid where u rap about this new TMNT movie. (forksclovetofu), Thursday, 24 July 2014 06:35 (ten years ago) link
eeeeeeeeeeeeeee http://tvline.com/2014/09/11/gillian-anderson-hannibal-series-regular-season-3/ eeeeeeeeee
― Mordy, Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:32 (ten years ago) link
woohoo
― difficult-difficult lemon-difficult (VegemiteGrrl), Thursday, 11 September 2014 22:33 (ten years ago) link
awesome
― the other song about butts in the top 5 (forksclovetofu), Friday, 12 September 2014 04:20 (ten years ago) link
I watched the first 5 or so episodes of this, and while the visuals were really great, the plots and characters were the same cliched serial killer stuff we've seen a million times (the smart-but-tortured detective who can get inside killers' heads', the elitist chessmaster serial killer who's always one step ahead of everyone, etc.), so I got bored with it. Does the rest of the series follow the same beaten path? Should I still give it a try?
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 September 2014 06:23 (ten years ago) link
You in particular will always find something to dislike, but the show gets better.
― Three Word Username, Friday, 12 September 2014 11:51 (ten years ago) link
For me, the characters and plotting never particularly break beyond cliche, and when they attempt to it's via a lot of psuedo-psychological gobbledegook. However, the art design and the power of Mads' performance (best Lector ever)has kept me watching so far, and I do like a good inventive grisly murder. Oh, and the last three or four eps of S2 are really quite exciting.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:55 (ten years ago) link
I'm hoping next season will be the one which elevates it from 'enjoyable nonsense' to 'actually good show', and signs are promising from what I've read.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 12 September 2014 11:58 (ten years ago) link
fwiw, the source material for the show invented a lot of those cliches.
― carl agatha, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:25 (ten years ago) link
I just watch it for the mood, the visuals and the score. It's absolutely amazing on those fronts, so why care about plot anyway? Plots are boring.
― Frederik B, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:29 (ten years ago) link
Plots are boring.
Haha, disagree with you 100% on this. Well, I'll concede that boring plots are boring.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:41 (ten years ago) link
But for me a really well-crafted one is a sublime pleasure.
― Tuomas, Friday, 12 September 2014 07:23 Bookmark
i v much thought the same, it wasn't until the following few episodes that it began to come together, and after that the second season is a tour de force
― r|t|c, Friday, 12 September 2014 12:53 (ten years ago) link
the second season is a tour de force
Thought it dragged/got extremely silly in the middle myself.
― the joke should be over once the kid is eaten. (chap), Friday, 12 September 2014 12:58 (ten years ago) link
http://funko.com/collections/hannibal-tv
Also, the soundtrack/score albums were released in the last couple weeks.
― ⌘-B (mh), Friday, 12 September 2014 14:03 (ten years ago) link