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

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

Hannibal's dishes alone totally justify the existence of the show.

otm

it's a show about best friends with different life paths

a show about a fetishy-looking fellow with antlers, friends, and how to eat them

Did Scott Thompson die? I can't remember.

there was a panel discussion w/ cast etc

https://screen.yahoo.com/popular/paleyfest-ny-hannibal-190000806.html

http://tvline.com/2014/12/19/hannibal-season-3-michael-pitt-leaving-joe-anderson-recast-mason/

;_; bye bye mikey :(

but that pic of anderson in the makeup is like whoa

his final conversation w/crawford in season 2 was so macabre and hilarious

he's such a good actor

i want him to be in all my fave shows

i think it'll be ok - character has obv gone thru traumatic experience + his face is gonna be gross

yeah feels like makeup can do a lot of heavy lifting with this casting change

maybe that's why pitt bailed?

he's too pretty to be in uglifyimg makeup for that long lol

Richard Armitage as Francis Dolarhyde.

http://tvline.com/2015/01/13/hannibal-season-3-cast-richard-armitage-dolarhyde/

dang i had no idea pitt left, only noticed bc this thread got bumped

wonder if he drank himself out of a job again a la boardwalk empire

YASSSSSSS WILL GRAHAM SLAYYYYY etc.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wOi_HN6nQNs

looks gorgeous

rad

😊

can't wait for this! <3

is Hannibal working in a meat museum?

They have re-cast Mason Verger, so no Michael Pitt in S3. Quite easy I suppose when the character has fed half of his face to the dog, but I quite liked MP.

but Richard Armitage, the replacement, is p great. (aka Thorin from the Hobbit movies, etc)

naw that is the dude playing Francis Dolarhyde

Verger is gonna be this dude: http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1725848/

oops yes

i forgot abt dolarhyde

I have really enjoyed Michael Pitt on screen but I don't know if he's actually a good actor or if he just does the charismatic asshole thing well

I know he's apparently hell to work with

on the bright side, maybe all the time they had to spend putting him in makeup gave him the opportunity to actually learn his lines at the end of last season

p sure he's lovely & everyone is jealous

suuuure

I'm loathe to buy fan-targeted goofy products but I guiltily have the Wendigo funko pop figuring from their Hannibal series. It's creeping out my other little toys.

nice!

http://feredir.tumblr.com/post/108932775999/i-really-was-drawing-hannibal-the-anime

not sure if this was the trailer/teaser that got removed above, but wowwwwwwww:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kN7fhWnhdM

the magnificence

https://scontent-lhr.xx.fbcdn.net/hphotos-xpa1/v/t1.0-9/11193250_891949117494526_2257586824241193969_n.jpg?oh=33b72f52826111f60a9ce19ff2084038&oe=55CFCC59

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lQ4Bn5YuGcE