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

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.

also

"Hannibal!... Where's Jack?"
"In the pantry."

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

I love the way Mads moves as violent Hannibal, lightning quick & precise

"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.

^ freddie

oh yeah freddie.

yeah that hair thing was freaky

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

sous chef maybe idk

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.

BF: [Laughs.]

xp - i am stoked beyond words that season 3 is meant to explore the lecter backstory.

Glad Fuller doesn't like Hannibal Rising

plus the actual Hannibal origin story doesn't work given the temporal impossibility of Mads having escaped the Nazis on the eastern front

Doesn't seem to stop the keepers of the X-Men movie franchise

heh "silence on the lam"

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

*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.

hardmanned over network tv

https://twitter.com/ZooHannibal

lol

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7cQe6mCJXkA

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.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HOXopTehvZs

Who's the young man with the red bandanna around his neck?

!! Amazing.

I did wonder whether he was a dancer before (he moves like one) and now I know. :D

I miss this show. Very glad it got picked up for a third season, but damnit I miss this show.

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.

Pitt was a revelation by the way, only seen him in BE before which didn't really indicate he had these kind of chops.

And I kind of hope everyone's dead and next season is a clean slate.

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

eeeeeeeeeeeeeee http://tvline.com/2014/09/11/gillian-anderson-hannibal-series-regular-season-3/ eeeeeeeeee

woohoo

awesome

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?

You in particular will always find something to dislike, but the show gets better.

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.

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.

fwiw, the source material for the show invented a lot of those cliches.

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.

Plots are boring.

Haha, disagree with you 100% on this. Well, I'll concede that boring plots are boring.

But for me a really well-crafted one is a sublime pleasure.

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 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

the second season is a tour de force

Thought it dragged/got extremely silly in the middle myself.

http://funko.com/collections/hannibal-tv

Also, the soundtrack/score albums were released in the last couple weeks.

ooh the scoring is pretty great too imo - i thought it was a bit too droney and oppressive in the beginning but they really stepped up their game in the second season. esp with their use of classical and opera motifs which tend to double as in-jokes/comments on the show itself.

Thought it dragged/got extremely silly in the middle myself

kinda agree with this, but it's pretty much all set up for the last few episodes which was easily the best stretch of TV I saw this year.

the food prep/chef/designer for the show's blog listed upthread is solid gold