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

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

Has their ever been a bad promo set to that song? I'm also thinking of the trailer for Wong Kar-Wai's Happy Together here.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f0Dh6Jdc18c

https://medium.com/matter/living-with-being-dead-844b4b1e668

about cotard's delusion (not hannibal)

fascinating stuff.

this starts tomorrow! i had no idea.

yessir

it will not cut into the finals for me no way but i'm v excited to watch it DVRed this weekend!!

:D

I can't wait!!

I've seen the S3 premiere. It...(redacted)

I'm seriously not sure I'm psychologically ready for this show to be back...

now where did i put my deer antlers

Bryan Fuller is doing a Q&A on FB right now: https://www.facebook.com/NBCHannibal/posts/903814376308000

some fun stuff so far, like the fact that Bedelia's character was originally written for Angela Lansbury! And that he'd ideally cast a non-white actor as Clarice Starling if they ever got the rights to SOTL.

Bedelia with her arm down Zachary Quinto's throat was weird.