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

:D :D :D :D

will glancing up at mason's hair a++

loving Michael Pitt

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lol she blinded me with BABBY

pitt's verger feels like several batman villains rolled into one+an impression of gary oldman's verger in the 'hannibal' movie. at first i was disappointed at how clownish he was but verger is supposed to be a clown, really. he's not a mastermind, he's just really rich and evil. hannibal destroys him because he finds him gauche and boring. i watched 'hannibal' the movie again and verger's revenge plot seemed almost overtly comical, especially given how easily hannibal is able to escape it. like it's about as silly as the crotch-laser in 'goldfinger' or w/e.

Nice Dead Ringers homage lol

Great ep

Actually bought Hannibal feeling sorry for taking Abigal from Will.

papa was a prodigy in the field of meat

Actually bought Hannibal feeling sorry for taking Abigal from Will.

― jbn, Sunday, May 11, 2014 1:39 AM (4 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

I obviously take this show at face value way too much (see my complete belief that Freddy was dead...y) but I think he was sorry, at least in his own way. Hannibal wanting a friend, wanting Will as a friend, has been a theme of this show from the beginning and he thinks he has a friend in Will and so he's sorry about Abigail, in a very not-sorry, "Sorry that had to happen" kind of way.

Feel like it was honest because Mischa is basically Hannibal's only genuine emotional connection to another human.

this business with the vergers seems to have junked up the tail end of this season

lol at alana tho: 'you're lying! you're all lying! you're lying to me, you're lying to each other!' inadvertently gaslit by their hunting party

http://abcnews.go.com/News/farmer-eaten-by-hungry-hogs/blogEntry?id=17376978

why did will tell hannibal that he killed freddy when he didn't? this is even more confusing

2 + 2 =

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=487t88pz-2Y

welp, there goes Mason

jesus, they're showing this on network tv, aren't they?

oh man, I thought he actually killed him for a second. nope, Hannibal is never merciful.

not gonna say a name but you know how sometimes you'll see something about a pilot being picked up and you won't even read the thing but there will be a cast photo and you'll think 'o there's ____________. that's odd he's already on...oh.'

i guess what i'm saying is avoid any fall preview whatever for another week or so.

I'm an episode behind but can I just

there's so much beautiful symmetry going on in almost every frame of this, it's seriously killing me.

also that ortolan scene was

O_O

;_;

D:

...

<3

when is michael pitt going to start being in all the movies and play a fucking batman villain or something
he's so great

I know who balls is talking about and I really hope that person has something in his/her contract that will allow him/her to be in both shows. :(

i was always kind of surprised that he does tv anyway

all this hinting is a little silly when the show only has like four full-time cast members.

I'm just being careful because I know some people out there are very salty when it comes to spoilers.

holy shit this show. I can't get over how grotesque/gorgeous everything is. and yes, how the hell is this on network TV?!

also, is it weird that the only time I'm remotely terrified when watching this show is when I'm afraid of something happening to Will's dogs?

Ha, Roz, when I saw that only one dog was waiting I was worried about the other ones until I realized what they were probably doing.

lol gotta love WInston not taking part in that mess, nope.

you know the casting change would mean bringing in someone w/ some stature

unless they're gonna late-season it already and come up with wacky new reasons why X should now be made [JOB REDACTED] or start using Y to [TASK REDACTED] or whatever just so they don't have to shell out for another name

also, is it weird that the only time I'm remotely terrified when watching this show is when I'm afraid of something happening to Will's dogs?

― Roz

lol this is totally me

Winston is one of them dogs that has become far more civilised than humanity. What a supreme episode and a great myth making performance by Pitt for the series 3 retribution attempt. I found Pitt a bit bland in BE but in this he has given a star performance.

i would love to read the internal documents at the network about this show. the whole autophagy scene i was sort of transfixed by the nbc logo ever-present in the corner.

but oh shit gillian anderson so perfect

Sometimes a banner will pop up on the bottom of the screen to tease the 10:00 news and it's always so jarring esp because the news anchors like pop up and smile as part of it. Meanwhile on screen there's a dude with a beehive in his head or somebody eating his own nose.

"Run Rob Stafford and Allison Rosati! The steampunk werewolf is on the loose!"

i thought for a moment that hannibal gassed verger with tiny bees & was like WHOOOA

Bryan Fuller on getting stuff past the censors:

The A.V. Club: As a showrunner, how do you talk to Standards And Practices about a scene where a guy cuts off his own face and eats his own nose?

Bryan Fuller: [Laughs.] There was a heads-up that we called in, and Joanna Jameson, who is our executive that covers Hannibal, has been incredible for teaching us how we can get away with what we want to get away with, while still coloring within the lines of Standards And Practices. It started with an email to her about how we have this nasty bit of business where somebody’s going to cut off their face and continue to have a conversation about it in the process, and we want to make sure we are vivid and true to the source material, which all happened in a bit of a flashback, so I knew, creatively, that we were going to be doing something slightly different than how it was presented in the novel, because circumstances were slightly different. She basically advised us that darkness is our friend, and as much as we wanted to show could be shown as long as it was in silhouette. For me, I knew that I didn’t want to have Michael Pitt with half of his face hanging off for most of the scene, because then it kind of loses its value. So, it became the negotiation of why not have him doing most of this stuff in the shadow and then step forward into illumination where you can just see the staggering level of damage that he’s done to himself.

When we submitted it, I don’t think we got dinged on that scene. The scene that we got dinged on in that episode was when Will Graham cuts Hannibal’s throat in the fantasy sequence, when he’s thinking about what he wants to have happen from telling Mason Verger that Hannibal wants to kill him. We had one shot in there that went on too long, in terms of the wave of arterial spray that was coming out of Hannibal’s neck. That was the one we got bumped on in that episode, but not any of the face carving.

also, re the "Margot and her button-stitching" line from two episodes ago: https://twitter.com/BryanFuller/status/462468066941890560

Bryan Fuller: [Laughs.]

you can show a dude with his face all cut off but can't say "muff diving." what a world.

The gorgeous distorted tunnel vision shots of Will and Hannibal! The laughs! The fact that I, a total gore wimp, can not look away for a second! Oooh, this show!

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BF: We had set up this whole storyline with Bedelia that we were going to do in this episode, and it is only due to Gillian Anderson’s absolute dedication to the show, because she was doing Crisis and The Fall concurrently with this. We had no business getting her back at all, and the way it worked out is that she had one day between finishing Crisis before starting The Fall, so she literally wrapped production on Crisis Saturday morning at, like, 3 a.m. or 4 a.m., got on a 9 a.m. flight from Chicago to Toronto, landed in Toronto at 10, and was on stage, in front of the camera, by noon. And we had her for six hours before she had to catch her next plane, so she could arrive in Ireland to get her wardrobe fitting on Sunday before she started shooting The Fall on Monday. It was crazy that we got her, and it was only because she was like, “I love this character. I love working on this show. I’m treated very well on this show. I want to come back and continue to be Hannibal Lecter’s therapist, because it’s a ball.”

<3 GA

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!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Well, that was a bloody depressing finale. Bets on who survives and who dies in the house? I bet Abigail is the only one who actually dies.

Wow that was nuts

Fuck me

god damn internet tv lagtimes this is an emergency

I remember a review with Fuller during or just after Season 1 where he said Season 3 would be Red Dragon, and I totally bought that as the inevitable end of this season, so I'm wondering if he changed his mind or if he's just been all "imma long con these fans lol" since the beginning.