I don't think Hannibal would keep going to du Maurier to waster her time or his with exchanges of platitudes. I'm not sure he would do that with someone he clearly respects. What I see in those scenes is Hannibal being honest. Oblique, perhaps, but not deceitful. When he says he wants a friend in Will, he's certainly…
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Honestly I feel like they nailed Jack Crawford. Catching killers is what Jack does and what he cares about. With Miriam Lass factored in, he's knowingly thrown his subordinates to the proverbial wolves (be they Lecter or in Will's case, psychological collapse) four separate times throughout the series, regardless of…
it's ambiguous (AGAIN) but this one only solidified the notion for me that du Maurier is aware of Hannibal's psychopathy - that she asks if he identifies with Will's madness (or something to that effect) leads me to believe that she definitely knows Hannibal is insane. We don't know if she knows he's killed, but with…
Trendpieces on Fannibals are making the rounds on pretty major culture sites. This is the first show I've ever been a fan of that's had a substantial slashfic / fanart brigade, and at first I was all "ehhhh" but upon further reflection, all it really means is that the show has cult appeal with nerdy women. That's a…
I saw them when they were playing rinkydink bars in Fort Collins, they had a different and much better name before they moved to Denver and got… well, as professional as a local pop punk band could be. I forget what the old name was but we all had a laugh when they changed it. They weren't all that good but I did make…
In this case i think they're drawing a bit more from SotL Crawford. The whole catalyst for the film's plot is Crawford's manipulation of Clarice as a tool to open Lecter up about Jame Gumb. And though the risk pays off, saving the captive and killing Gumb, it ultimately dooms Clarice.
sounds like the perfect ep to introduce… the Snuggle Slasher
I distinctly remember a line from the Silence of the Lambs stating that Hannibal had been doing enough exercises in prison to have the proportional strength of an ant, so yeah, above and beyond the baroque artist serial killer thing, this is a fantasy universe.
Fwiw, it looks like Alana's going to have some role to play next week as we return our attention to Dr. Gideon.
It's kind of funny to go back and realize how much mid-late 90's Warp stuff influenced pop music, even as it wasn't all that popular itself. BoC's got an impressive legacy just based on Nigel Godrich's biting of their sound in the early '00s. When you listen to it now, most of the production on Beck's Sea Change…
She's quite good at lying / manipulating, and you can't fool a fooler, so I think that's what Hannibal likes in her.
Izzard's on board for one more episode, I think. It might be the one in which we focus on her.
Might be worth going back to the Dr. Gideon episode for an examination of how someone might come to believe they've done something they didn't.
are we headed for a dreaded double-twist, I wonder
The totem was obviously something he had planned well in advance. The point of killing everyone else in between, as Will intimated, was the perverse satisfaction of getting away with it and then soaking up the psychic suffering of the survivors of the dead and knowing he was the power behind it all. The totem is the…
So we know now that Jack is onto Hannibal, Alana says as much after the "body identification" scene. I don't know if Hannibal's knowingly using Abigail as a tool to discredit him? Jack's overt suspicion of her is definitely alienating his fellows.
I've seen a slim few scoff at it (Nussbaum over at the New Yorker being the most prominent) but the impression that I get is that Hannibal is a big hit with TV critics. If they're not into the subject matter they at least recognize it as the most beautiful show outside the pay cable channels
this episode's events are probably contrivance, but next week makes it clear that Will is losing significant amounts of time when he hallucinates. Maybe he went outside and stood there for an indeterminate amount of time before snapping back to reality? Dunno.
To be fair, the audience is pretty self-selecting, as first-season shows tend to be. There aren't enough people watching Hannibal for there to be people who don't like it.