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

There was a tweet about it that set off some articles. https://www.digitalspy.com/tv/ustv/a27646358/hannibal-season-4-2019-bryan-fuller/

I finally finished Wondefalls yesterday. I was meh on it, although the xtc theme is very good. And Alana is good in it.

― Yerac, Wednesday, November 27, 2019 1:14 PM (five hours ago)

I used to rep for Wonderfalls pretty hard, but last time I watched I had to admit it hasn't aged well. It does have a good premise, a mostly great cast, and a few stand-out eps, plus I think the second season could have been excellent. I wish Dhavernas had gotten more work.

yeah, I remember seeing one episode when it was on tv and thinking it was something I would really like but as I was watching it this month (all episodes on youtube), it felt very dated.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qqt4RPOVs8A
just me?

btw, they are finally making the television silence sequel that almost certainly doomed this perfect perfect show

https://deadline.com/2020/01/clarice-silence-of-the-lambs-sequel-tv-series-cbs-alex-kurtzman-jenny-lumet-big-commitment-1202828050/

Shortly after this was announced, Fuller said that its existence didn't necessarily preclude the possibility of a fourth season somewhere down the road, as they'd already accepted that they probably wouldn't be able to use Clarice anyway.

yeah, but the possibility of it and inaccessibility to the material is a large part of what shut down a hannibal season 4 iirc
anyway, what about honey harper? just me?

i don't understand the Honey Harper post?

looks to me like mads mikkelsen in a wig

RFI: are you high?

um, why do you ask
if you're a cop you have to tell me you're a cop

somebody has to agree with me about this
don't make me start a mads or not mads poll on this video

this is a vile insult to mads tbh

I had been trying to figure out which killer Honey Harper had played on the show.

Hannibal!

i don't think you should be driving, sir.

i don't think YOU should be hanniballing!

THE WHOLE DAMN HANNIBAL'S OUT OF ORDER!

A swan at the pond in Pembroke Castle in Wales has killed 15 others that have dared to invade his territory. He has been seen to bite them, batter them with his wings and drown them by holding their heads under water. The creature, nicknamed Hannibal, is said to “show off” to his mate and cygnet after a kill, swimming round with his wings up. However, he and his family are now likely to be removed. Maria Evans, a wildlife worker, said: “I’ve never come across such an aggressive bird. He is a horrible swan.” Hannibal will have blood tests to see if his behaviour is caused by pollution in the pond.

swans are notably assholes!

Hannibal's fourth season has been left up in the air since the series' cancelation by NBC, but Fuller still has hope - and plans - for the future.

Other details involved his interest in bringing back Anna Chlumsky as Miriam Lass, an FBI trainee who worked under Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) before being captured by Hannibal and kept hostage for two years. Lee Pace, according to Fuller, was whom he wished to cast as Buffalo Bill if he got the opportunity to explore The Silence of the Lambs arc. As for Clarice, who is arguably Hannibal's primary interest in many ways, Fuller said that her inclusion "depends on how Season 4 would have ended." He had expressed interest in casting Ellen Page in the role, but also potentially making Clarice a black woman from a lower-class background, which would essentially give him license to put his own creative stamp on the character in Hannibal's future.

https://www.morbidanatomy.org/morbid-anatomy-products/hannibal-lecter-book-collector-an-illustrated-lecture-via-zoom-with-elisabeth-brander-rare-book-librarian-at-washington-university

Rewatching this has been delightful.

it's the best show

everrrr

just insane that this got made

I keep discovering things I missed the first time around.

Mason Verger has a William Blake print!

moving the Murder Husbands stuff from subtext to text cost the show a lot (for me anyway)

I still can’t believe this show, particularly season 2, exists

I still can’t believe this show, particularly season 2, exists

So good I had to post it twice

I’ve been rewatching for the first time since it aired too and really enjoying the bluntly askew ncisisms throughout season one

This is sadly prob not going to happen in a time zone where I’ll actually be awake but in case others are interested:

JUST RECORDED #HannibalReunion ZOOM WITH @nerdist - STAY TUNED FOR MORE DETAILS #FANNIBALFAMILYFOREVER #FANNIBALSLOVENETFLIX @netflix pic.twitter.com/nAtpXTeEdg

— Bryan Fuller (@BryanFuller) June 25, 2020

ok ignore my message, I’m actually already half asleep and just realised that that’s already recorded rather than a live thing. but looks exciting!

Lol iPad

I noticed it's on Netflix. Did they restore the episode that originally got pulled? I've still never seen it.

the molly shannon one? it was included when the show was streaming on prime, can't imagine it's not there

i watched that one a week ago or so on netflix so yeah it's there

gotcha

I just started this now, because I'm playing Buffalo Bill in a filmed Shakespearean-era reimagined Silence (do not ask...).

I am fucking enthralled by everything about this show. I immersed so hard in it that when both my roommates randomly didn't come home for two nights without warning me...I was legit freaked out!

I'm in S2 right now right after Katz found his fucking basement, but that didn't give me chills anywhere near as much as Hannibal heartlessly reviving Crawford's wife, who lets out a pained "no...." upon realizing he brought her back

not having read the books (call me a fuckin' poseur idfc), I didn't realize the Garrett Jacob Hobbs thing came from the Red Dragon book (I only knew him as a throwaway reference in Manhunter).

I find myself having a blast figuring out Hannibal's motives. it's an interesting twist to have Will's discovery of Hannibal be this long, prolonged Cassandra-esque Greek tragedy as opposed to him just accidentally stumbling upon the fact during a series of visits to interview him about a patient he treated that was a victim of the Chesapeake ripper.

Will being arrested and on trial for murder didn't sit well with me at first (mostly because I figure he's going to be acquitted and returned to the field, based on what I've read about the show), and I just can't imagine him doing that.

was gonna watch another ep. debating whether to or not. i do have to sleep at some point. or do I?

I'm about 5 or 6 episodes into the first season and still on the fence about it. I get frustrated with the baddie of the week format that overwhelms the main storyline a lot of the time.

That will ... become less of a problem ;)

Don’t worry, the procedural format goes away eventually - it was really just bait to draw in your regular NBC weeknight viewer.

I love seeing people get into this show for the first time! it’s still incredible it ever got made.

it really is

agree with the complaints about Izzard upthread - he's theatrical when everybody else is doing television-level acting. it comes across like one of my least favorite bit characters from Sweeney Todd, Jonas Fogg, who has the most ridiculous dialogue, and in community theaters, is often played by people who are over the top and goofy.

Izzard's not exactly over the top, but his affected speech feels forced (not least due to the work of disguising an accent, which tbh, I wish he didn't do). he seems to be *trying* to come across as maniacal but it feels phony.

I thought Izzard was mostly ok, especially after I realized he was there as a way for the producers to Trojan horse Hopkins’ version of Hannibal into the show

izzard’s good imo. gets a lot of good scenes in the third season iirc