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

;_;

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Can one of the mega-fans of this show provide me with a brief precis of the state of play as of the end of season one? I seem to have have forgotten everything except the mushroom people, the tower of corpses, and Eddie Izzard.

DO NOT LISTEN TO STERL

I sort of remember that Will's been arrested for the murders that Hannibal probably did, and he himself thinks he did them right? And everyone else thinks he did, but maybe not really? And then there's the daughter of that guy he killed knocking around who maybe killed some people too? It's a complicated show.

SPOILERS OBVIOUSLY

Nah, he spends most of the last few episodes thinking he's responsible, but by the very end he knows what's up. Abigail's dead, though; Hannibal feeds her to his psychiatrist.

OKAY THE SPOILERS ARE OVER NOW

Yeah I probably need to rewatch the whole thing before S2 starts.

You have one week!

Abigail... sigh...

heard nothing but good things about this, guess I need to binge watch

It took about 3 or 4 eps but once it hits it's stride there's really no other show like on it network tv.

Sound and food design alone elevate it above some others

also menswear

also interior decorating

caek vmic

man those neckties

So stoked for tonight!

this show is very silly. watched four episodes and i am not in. tone is so odd, there are some things that are working for me and so many that are not.

Wait, what does Gillian Anderson's character know about Hannibal? I didn't revisit S1 so I've forgotten.

Very enjoyable premiere so far.

i think she… only knows what she could surmise as his therapist? but she sometimes acts like she saw accurately through his person-mask, beyond just realizing that it was one?

I ask because she was like, "You're putting me in the difficult position of lying about you", and I was like, wait, she knows? What does she know?

oh, i forget, she's aware of the inappropriateness of his patient relationships, and i think about someone she knew he was with (will?) when she was asked about it by the feds, though she kept it quiet just on general principle / concern for hannibal?

Yeah, I think that's it. Thanks.

Man the sound design on this show is so unsettling

agh this show is so grossss.

didn't hannibal save gillian anderson from a violent patient before, under peculiar circumstances? jack tried to question her about something that she wouldn't disclose last season iirc.

Yeah I think they intimated that he did something very twisted to the patient that attacked her

omg that fight

Fuller doing an episode walkthrough every week it seems: http://www.avclub.com/article/bryan-fuller-walks-us-through-second-season-premie-201684

"I never feel guilty about eating anything."

Why do I watch this? It's nauseating and ridiculous.

TO FIND OUT WHO THE RIPPER IS

you watch this because part of you still loves yourself

i just love plating

Argh, I'm not easily disturbed by gore and the like but that intro. How is a show this graphic on network TV.

nbc barely counts as a network tbf

The Following was renewed for a third season and I'll be upset if that awful piece of shit survives and this serial killer show doesn't get a third season.

I felt pretty queasy.

Guessing Gillian had to go because of that other show she's about to be on + other commitments. Loved the ambiguity going on at the end of last season so it feels like an abrupt shift but her scene with Will was good so all is forgiven.

Gillian Anderson's scenes have been amazing these past two episodes but they didn't really advance the plot in any way except to allude to some past incident(s) and if she's gone for good, I don't even know why they bothered to bring her back this season at all. Of course, if she's not gone, she can come back to give us some closure on what she and Hannibal allude to all the time but otherwise, it was all a bit pointless (though a well-acted kind of pointlessness, I guess).

UGH SO GROSS

That coldopen, sweet merciful Christ. They was basically The Human Centipede minus the anal fixation but with much more convincing effects. (But no nudity, 'cause heaven forbid.)

argh *cold open

I do like how the show is taking its time (in this case, at least three episodes) to get Will out of prison. I feel like most other shows would have freed him within the first episode of the new season.

xp my first inclination was to ask WHY did they have to show the flesh ripping -- why couldn't they just cut away and let the sound effects convey the horror? but then i had to admit it really wouldn't pack the same wallop, and seeing how much he suffered made me want him to survive the chase scene SO BADLY.

"You're Hannibal Lecter's therapist. What's that like?"

-the flesh rips on a beat where you're not expecting it! i really liked that
-will is going to be in prison all series, i sort of hope

-it wd seem a weird conclusion to draw that anderson isn't going to be back; her withdrawal seems too precisely delimited for that

--the Promotional Consideration Furnished By Apple stuff felt really intrusive

--everyone acts with their shoulders, in this show. the exact limits to will's slump, the exact set of the investigator's. hannibal a sort of curious-animal thing. fishburne in his chair talking to (an investigator? his therapist?) -- one wonders if fuller is going around going 'no, like this, see'

--one enjoys beverly katz getting to do something, instigate things; it's fun that people's roles in the action have shifted so much, as opposed to their merely interpersonal dynamics

--for a second i was worried they wouldn't bother to explain the mural's ~symbolism~ but, oh, no

--this episode had a really bad script; characters explaining the last episode and their motivations to each other, all the time: the scene with katz and the director maybe the worst, though i did like:

(while not sitting in chair) "they've even ordered a psych eval to determine my comptentency to sit in this chair"

"what do you want me to do?"

(as he sits down) "... we didn't have this conversation"

--hannibal's plastic suit is interesting: like, it now functions as sinister comedy, whereas if we'd not been built to it it would look purely ridiculous (this is the third time we've seen it, right, and the first full shot?)

--"i love your work" !!!

hannibal still has to kill her obv xp re: anderson

It should be against the law to kill a Gillian Anderson character. My TV kinda sucks - what did Hannibal pick up at her place?

Bottle of perfume, I think.

that cold open was excruciating, jezus