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

Beverlyyyyyy :( :( :(

the scenes with Will recovering his memories, with the strobe lights and Hannibal-melty face, were some deeply unsettling shit. Also, when Hannibal turned his head to address Will. Mads Mikkelsen can be really terrifying just making eye contact.

yeah totally!

should we poll how he will cook beverly y/n

when that Fuller interview was linked above and "spoilers" were mentioned I was all "oh come on the gun doesn't shoot up through the dining room floor if she survived it's obvious no spoilers here lol" but then yeah there are proper fucking spoilers which would make that poll unfair.

Yeah, the gun shooting up through the floor really answered what happened. But in a subtle way. This show is in some ways pretty subtle, I've been trying to get some people into it, and they complain about Hannibal not doing anything in the first episodes, and I'm like 'wait, he killed dozens of people in the background?' but they don't really catch it.

what do you guys think Beverly was looking at?

he has a huge Beetlejuice-esque scale model of the town in his basement

Abigail.

skin suits hanging on coat hangers

A Will suit made out of parts of victims.

Abigail a possibility. Also maybe storage for that FBI person who disappeared years earlier?

Abigail is ok, she agreed to let Hannibal cut of her ear to help with some complicated plan which will in the end help Will Graham understand himself better. Hannibal knew that Beverly would misunderstand, so he had to attack her to get rid of her gun. After the episode ended he explained everything and they all laughed and had pancakes. In next weeks episode all will be revealed, and they'll all live happily ever after. Including Jack's wife. It's a miracle!

Hettienne Park, who plays Beverly, wrote this incredibly thoughtful blog post about her character and the accusations of racism/sexism that Bryan Fuller is getting for killing off Bev: http://yellowbird66.wordpress.com/2014/03/25/racism-sexism-and-hannibal-eat-the-rude/

<3 her so much now

well THIS just doesn't sound like it has anything to do with THIS show

Don’t forget this is network television, not cable. In order to sell those advertising dollars and survive, they want to appeal to the masses of Middle America.

finally caught up with this season. i think maybe hannibal was planning a surprise welcome home party for will if he was released, and that's what beverly found?

how could I have not seen it?

They followed up an episode which featured the death of a regular with their most darkly funny episode yet (mostly due to Eddie Izzard, probably).

"you're a great friend, hannibal"

kinda true, mostly not

damn who on this show is NOT a murderer

Seeing Beverly like that was xtremely distressing (>_<) I was a bit annoyed with the last act because we know from the first ep that he is not in genuine peril.

and nevertheless

Oh yeah still the best series right now.

Seeing Beverly like that was xtremely distressing (>_<) I was a bit annoyed with the last act because we know from the first ep that he is not in genuine peril.

― xelab, Saturday, March 29, 2014 7:47 PM Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

well also the show is called hannibal and they can't kill the hero of the show.

has there been any hint of their plans post-capture-wise, if it comes to that? i think one of the hardest things for them to do would be to put hannibal in the asylum for a season, since that would go against basically their whole setup and force them to make it all ~~~psychological~~~ (plus put them pretty close to being back in the book/film territory). lesser shows in that circumstance basically just break the baddie out as soon as possible.

well also the show is called hannibal and they can't kill the hero of the show.

Why do you definitively know this ain't the last series?

because that would be disappointing and tv can't be disappointing

I hope I am wrong but I think this will get pumped for the likes of Believe to survive, that is depressing.

I hope NBC will keep this around for prestige purposes (it's quite critically acclaimed now, I think), like how Geffen kept Sonic Youth signed despite them not selling shit compared to their label peers. Hannibal is the Sonic Youth of network TV.

Apparently the Euro co-financing helps it out, too.

Third season will be Red Dragon xpost

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Hannibal would have been a goner last year - but it was saved because its almost entirely paid for by its international co-production status, with NBC having very little financial risk (if any) involved. That, capped off by the glowing reviews, could (and hopefully will) once more bring Dr. Lecter back. If NBC does cancel it, there's also hope that another outlet picks it up, which was in the cards last year when the show was in the same precarious situation.

I'm not so hot on this season so far. It's insanely beautiful and the score is amazing, but I'm less and less involved in the narrative. The turn with Will this week was dispiriting.

I'm way more into the show this season, now that they've put the overarching plot at the forefront and put the serial killer of the week stuff as support.

so this season the arc is going to be hints about who killed beverly?

don't like how they've kept this chesapeake ripper thing going so long and we still have no idea who it is -- hope the series doesn't founder because the audience gets tired of not knowing.

uh the chesapeake ripper is hannibal

they already suggested will is the ripper, and now they seem to be saying maybe he isn't. pulling the same twist twice with hannibal seems like it would be lazy writing imho

also mads is a fan favorite, it would really break a lot of hearts :-(

canonically speaking hannibal is known as the chesapeake ripper tho. i mean spoiler alert i guess but

like in red dragon whatever will graham's level of public acknowledgement is attained by having caught 'hannibal the cannibal' also known as 'the chesapeake ripper'

or cf the hannibal lecter wikipedia page

Nickname(s) Hannibal the Cannibal
The Chesapeake Ripper

i mean also whenever jack considers the ripper he sees the hannibal-as-stag figure?

i haven't read the books or seen the movies so i don't know what canon you're talking about, do you think this is like a comic book with continuity geeks or something

xpost stop trying to spoil the show!

yes

the show is extremely upfront with hannibal being the ripper imo?

i mean will says it over and over again cassandra-like

sorry i ruined the show everybody but the guy who eats people is the bad guy

whatever, stop insisting your weird fanfic is canon

my weird fanfic aka the novels written 30 years ago

um clay otm - i think the show is pretty obvious with the fact that Hannibal is the Chesapeake Ripper? Although he's usually seen committing copycat kills (Garrett Jacob Hobbs, the mural artist, etc) for his own purposes (to frame Will, his own amusement, testing a hypothesis etc.).

don't like how they've kept this chesapeake ripper thing going so long and we still have no idea who it is -- hope the series doesn't founder because the audience gets tired of not knowing.

― eric banana (s.clover), Sunday, March 30, 2014 5:53 PM (24 minutes ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

http://netdna.tvovermind.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/06/Hannibal-GIFs-6.gif

what are you talking about? will killed garrett jacob hobbs, not hannibal, are we even watching the same show.