Hannibal

I've seen raves about it everywhere and I just couldn't get into it. Could be COVID-brain, though. I find I'm not following anything nearly as well these days.

So gay

I really loved the film, Anthony Hopkins is excellent in it, a truly frightening character.

No.

Cannibalism and the greatest love story ever told.

Wasn't it on NBC several years ago? Why is it news now?

We want a fourth season!

NBC wanted John Cusack or Hugh Grant to play Hannibal. WTF?

Mads Mikkelsen and his incredible wardrobe was a delicious visual feast.

....

The first season is really interesting because the serial killers have such imaginative ways of displaying their victims' corpses. Its like each week they're trying to top themselves as to how to display corpses more dramatically.

When the action moves to Italy in the second season it gets really boring until they leave again. The end of the last season is really good because they bring in sexy Richard Armitage as "The Tooth Fairy," Francis Dolarhyde, and he brings a lot of energy to the show.

Mads Mikkelsen is very good as Dr. Lecter--he's not nearly as terrifying as Anthony Hopkins was, but it's believable he could get away with his killings for so long without people suspecting. I wish he had displayed more of the rage that Hopkins let show, though, when he's exposed as a monster. Hugh Dancy is quite pretty, but he overdoes how exhausted Will Graham is supposed to be. He already seems wiped out when you first see him and it just gets worse and worse. There's a superb performance by Kacey Rohl as Abigail Hobbs, the daughter of another serial killer (Garrett Hobbs) called The Minnesota Shrike, throughout the whole series. Raul Esparza is also quite good as the officious Dr. Frederick Chilton.

There are some real weird howlers among the sociological details--everyone's house is far grander than you would ever have a right to expect. For example, the Hobbs family live in a gigantic McMansion, even though Garrett Hobbs is supposed to be only a pipefitter.

[quote] Wasn't it on NBC several years ago? Why is it news now?

NBC buried it on Friday nights, so few people saw it when it first aired. Also, the country had been suffering through serial killer overexposure on TV and in the movies at the time, and so not many people saw it.

We've gone a few years without lots of serial killers on TV, and the public is ripe to see them again. Also, it's one of these shows that's for whatever reason much more fun to binge-watch than to see week by week.

It was horrible and disgusting. I get that that was the point, but it was so depressing and twisted.

I hated the female Freddy. If it had remained a male Freddy who fucked with Will, that would have been okay.

All it was was a way to normalize villains and humanize them. And make Will seem to be bisexual with Hannibal.

It was dreck. And Agent Scully was awful in it.

Great show but either you’re on it’s wavelength or you’re not. And it’s a pretty bizarre wavelength.

[quote] For example, the Hobbs family live in a gigantic McMansion, even though Garrett Hobbs is supposed to be only a pipefitter.

What? I just pulled up the end of the first ep when Will confronts Hobbs and his family lives in a regular stone bungalow. It’s not remotely a McMansion.

*its not it’s

[quote] And Agent Scully was awful in it.

This show crosses over with The X-Files?

I'm jealous that Gillian Anderson got to bone Mads Mikkelsen.

The Hobbs house is a large house on a very nice street that a pipefitter could never afford in the Twin Cities.

Also, they show Hobbs and his daughter taking a train to Duluth from Minneapolis, when there is no train.

I think I've gotten dumber but I found it hard to follow. All the females have medium brown hair. Except for the crime reporter.

Who pays attention to females?

The most gorgeous gore and food porn. Tis very slow though.

I couldn't get into it. Meanwhile, I've breezed through Marcella (also on Netflix), with another Bryan Fuller-show alumni, Anna Friel. Even though I hated some of the misdirection in storytelling, it was a really enjoyable procedural (and I don't usually care for the genre).

I really loathe tv audience who think Hannibal just drinks wine. This dude loves batard montrachet not the cheap chanti, he might choose vin rosé sec as aperitif and at least enjoy armagnac as digestif,

anything else worth watching?

unresolved sexual tension between Hannibal and Will Graham. Mads thought Hannibal was arguably gay and he played the character as he said. Mads is a really cool guy.

The first two seasons are great but it loses steam when Hannibal goes off to Italy. However, the interiors of Florence are worth the watch.

Michael Pitt as Mason Verger is chewing up my tv screen.

Tone it down.

I loved Bryan Fuller and the originality and whimsy he put into so many of his shows.

But I think after several misfires, he's shown that he has a rather limited, if compelling, bag of tricks, which he uses and overuses....if he stays long enough to do so before he inevitably flounces from a show.

R25

They ended the show with a Siouxsie song that was written for the show, Love Crimes. It should be a gay anthem.

Very rare Straight Baiting show it is!