View Full Version : Hannibal (Season 3)
Henry Gale
06-05-2015, 06:12 AM
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Maybe my favourite drama on television in any form at this point. Easily one of the most grippingly atmospheric, visually sumptuous, and all around staggering works of any medium in the last several years for me.
Let's go.
Gillian Anderson is the most beautiful woman on the planet.
Damn, how does this show keep topping itself?
Last night's episode was a spectacular slowburn, teasingly refusing to answer any of last season's cliffhangers...yet.
I detect a definite shift in the show's tone so far, evidenced by the fact that this was about as avant-garde as mainstream television dares to go. If you didn't know better, you'd swear this was a cable show.
Hannibal is definitely art-house for the small screen.
The best decision they made was making Gillian Anderson a regular cast member.
Henry Gale
06-06-2015, 01:35 AM
Last night's episode was a spectacular slowburn, teasingly refusing to answer any of last season's cliffhangers...yet.
I detect a definite shift in the show's tone so far, evidenced by the fact that this was about as avant-garde as mainstream television dares to go. If you didn't know better, you'd swear this was a cable show.
Hannibal is definitely art-house for the small screen.
Yes to all of this. Only when Anderson had her plunging bathtub dream, and I thought "Wait, does she have pasties on--" was I pulled back to reality to remember this aired on NBC in primetime. It's nuts. Such a fine hour of any TV, but also so unique even for this show.
I did laugh out loud and was taken out of (solely due to personal experience) the moment where Hannibal pulls up his motorcycle to a hotel in France since I had just walked by it about a week ago. It is a hotel, just located in Toronto, across from an Old Spaghetti Factory, some tourist-y bars, and has a convenience store attached not too far from where the character parks.
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I have always liked this show, but this season is taking itself to a whole new level. It's so beautiful, and metaphorical, and stylized. It's a gorgeous, bloody fever dream, and I'm loving it.
This season continues amazing.
Also, Hannibal's jacket game continues to be on-freaking-point.
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And to those who say this show has no sense of humor, I would point to this exchange:
Hannibal to Bedelia: "Well, technically..."
:D
In that same scene, Mikkelsen's delivery of "That may have been impulsive" made me giggle.
Henry Gale
06-22-2015, 10:09 PM
Well fuck.
NBC has cancelled it. They promise tol show the remaining ten episodes as scheduled.
....
I mean even if they knew even earlier than now, they really had to be huge buzzkills and tell us this early in the season? Their cancellation essentially means their revoking their further participation in it, since it has a ton of international money and production companies outside of them that could easily keep it going.
Still sucks. I hope the best for Fuller here, since his past series haven't had much luck of revivals.
number8
06-23-2015, 02:29 AM
I am very surprised to hear that a lot of fans are not liking this season and calling it boring. It made me realize a lot of people were liking the show for the airport paperback thriller aspects and not the elements I love about it.
Henry Gale
06-23-2015, 02:49 AM
I am very surprised to hear that a lot of fans are not liking this season and calling it boring. It made me realize a lot of people were liking the show for the airport paperback thriller aspects and not the elements I love about it.
Oh, yeah, I've thought the first three episodes of the season were kinda exhilarating, exactly because they've delved even further into the dreamy morbidity of everything as a means of telling the story purely through visual/aural means, rather than getting bogged down with exposition and procedural narrative stuff. That sort of reaction really does surprise me, to the point that I'd like to see where you're seeing it.
The more ethereal stylistic muscles of it have been the thing I've adored most about the show from the start, so I've been so happy how it's built itself around those aspects more and more foundationally. Who wants any sense of reality with this show when it can do fantasy so well?
number8
06-23-2015, 03:30 AM
Look at the top comments: http://www.reddit.com/r/television/comments/3ar4ap/nbc_has_canceled_hannibal/
It's not isolated, either. It's a common sentiment if you read the comments on the premiere's reviews.
I am not surprised, nor am I particularly disappointed (kudos to NBC for actually delivering three full seasons of this madness). Because of the international cash flow (and the show's success overseas) I think Fuller will be able to find another domestic partner (NetFlix, Showtime, etc) with whom they can continue the production.
And hey, if not? I'll still have three seasons on blu-ray of one of the the most immaculately-produced and phenomenally-art directed series that has ever come across my radar.
And it was truly a glorious, once-in-a-lifetime type of experience.
You never watched it? I hate it for you...
Barty
07-04-2015, 04:50 AM
My God that fight scene.
Jesus, that episode was insane!
I think that might be my favorite episode they've ever done. Was every single person on drugs?
Gillian Anderson is a goddess.
Oh, and kaleidoscopic lesbian sex ftw!
And referencing Pet Sematary and The Cook, the Thief, His Wife, and Her Lover in the same night? Someone please saves this show.
number8
07-14-2015, 03:46 AM
The changes from the canon's timeline are really throwing me for a loop (in a very good way).
EvilShoe
07-15-2015, 07:45 AM
I think Will needs to make new friends. So far the following has happened to him:
Thrown off a train
Had his head sliced open
Shot in the shoulder
Had a brain infection
Was wrongly accused of a crime and imprisoned.
Anything missing?
number8
07-15-2015, 06:29 PM
His stomach was torn open.
EvilShoe
07-15-2015, 07:43 PM
Ah yes, knew I forgot something. Isn't that the only thing Hannibal did to him in the books?
His stomach was torn open.
During which time, he was forced to watch his surrogate daughter get her throat slit.
And this all happened after he was force-fed one of her ears.
Will definitely needs some new friends.
Just noticed that NBC has moved Hannibal (and Aquarius) to Saturday.
New episode tonight!
Well that was some kind of deranged, and just great. My favorite of the season so far.
number8
07-19-2015, 09:48 PM
I guess we're finally entering the Red Dragon portion of the season.
Honestly, I'm starting to think this version of the timeline where the events of Hannibal happens pre Lecter's capture works best. I always thought his escape in Silence of the Lambs was kind of an odd dangling narrative choice.
number8
07-28-2015, 12:17 PM
Richard Armitage is creepy as hell in this.
Richard Armitage is creepy as hell in this.
Yet gorgeous.
The show keeps doing this to me. It's very confusing
number8
08-09-2015, 03:56 PM
Wow. That tiger scene. Wow.
Wow. That tiger scene. Wow.
Yes, the tiger scene was...unexpectedly elegant (to quote Ms. Wesley).
However, Will and Bedelia's cat-and-mouse, double entendre conversation piece was the highlight of the episode for me.
Also, a final thought: man, Richard Armitage is fucking intense.
This has been the strongest season so far. I mean, this is freaking great television.
I haven't processed my grief from the cancellation. It's too horrible.
Richard Armitage is fucking intense.
He's crazy hot, too. I've had a major crush on him from North & South, which is one of my comfort-watches when I'm blue.
I'm getting tired of saying...Best. Episode. Ever.
Richard Armitage downright rules the second half of this final season.
I'm getting tired of saying...Best. Episode. Ever.
Richard Armitage downright rules the second half of this final season.
This show has always been good, but this season is just phenomenal. It's gorgeous, dream-like, intense, and thought-provoking.
Mara, have you looked at any of the pre-air reviews at IMDb for tonight's episode? By all accounts, it's going to be FANTASTIC.
I approach tonight's series finale with mixed emotions -- definitely thankful that NBC had the guts to air it for three seasons, and I'm really excited for tonight's capper. So sad, though, that it ended prematurely -- I will really miss this show. Let's see if it goes out with a bang tonight. The next season was supposed to be a reimagining of the Silence of the Lambs storyline. Too bad Netflix or HBO didn't show interest in continuing it.
Cheers to one of the truly outstanding television series of recent memory.
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number8
08-30-2015, 03:00 AM
Holy shit what an ending.
number8
08-30-2015, 03:07 AM
Guys seriously that is how you end a TV show. That was gorgeous.
Let's see if it goes out with a bang tonight.
Guys seriously that is how you end a TV show. That was gorgeous.
"Mic drop"
* speechless *
Beautifully done, and even touching.
Murder husbands!
Murder husbands!
Murder husbands doin' love crimes!
While there will likely be debates as to which season is the best (even with Season 3's flaw(s) and flawed approach of trying to shoehorn two of Harris's novels into a single season), it's this final season that will probably resonate best with me because it not only remains true to Bryan Fuller's vision, it's the one that leads to such a logical conclusion (even down to the Sherlock Holmes nod). Despite the ever-increasing jettisoning of real world logic this season, it brought it all home in a moving, and frankly, gorgeous finale that was -- for lack of a better adjective -- pretty much perfect. A thing of beauty.
The best trick Hannibal ever played was convincing NBC that it was a show about serial killers...
number8
08-31-2015, 04:11 PM
This is cool.
[Hannibal composer] Brian Reitzell knew I am a huge Siouxsie Sioux fan and have seen her in concert more times than any other artist in my life. We knew that she was a fan of the show, and we reached out to see if she'd be interested in writing a song. Essentially, she hasn't had a single in eight years, and she said she hadn't been inspired to write in a long time, but that Hannibal had inspired her and she would write a new song. It was an incredible honor. I told her it should be a love song between Will and Hannibal. She came back with this wonderful Bond theme of a ditty, and I just said that has to go over the finale. It was pitch-perfect.
Then it became the battle over... how do we pay for it? We didn't have any money left in the budget, and the studio wasn't going to put any more money into the show than they already had. I went to NBC and Sky, who are our American and U.K. broadcasters and said, "I know the show is canceled... and it's absolutely unheard of for a showrunner to come back to you and ask for more money for a show that has no further revenue potential for you. But it's Siouxsie Sioux and it's an honor and it's her first single in eight years." They both said, "Yes, absolutely, we'll split it right down the middle, and we're doing this because we love you, we love the show, and we love Siouxsie."
http://www.tvguide.com/news/hannibal-series-finale-postmortem-bryan-fuller/
Read this great article (http://www.vulture.com/2015/08/hannibal-redefined-how-we-tell-stories-on-tv.html) about Hannibal's innovative legacy and possible influence on future shows.
Hannibal Clothes/Prop Auction (http://propstore.auctionserver.net/view-auctions/catalog/id/34/)
Very reasonable asking bids for #'s 772 & 905.
#1259? Not so much. (Gillian Anderson's size 4 navy blue gown and earrings that she wore in her final "dinner" scene) http://i1.ifrm.com/html/emoticons/ohmy.gif
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Gillian Anderson's size 4 navy blue gown and earrings that she wore in her final "dinner" scene
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The winning bid was $7,750. The priciest item, at $18,750, was this:
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‘Hannibal’ Season 4: Bryan Fuller Says Talks Will Begin In 2017 (http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/hannibal-season-4-bryan-fuller-2017-1201699020/)
:)
Morris Schæffer
08-15-2017, 08:01 PM
‘Hannibal’ Season 4: Bryan Fuller Says Talks Will Begin In 2017 (http://www.indiewire.com/2016/06/hannibal-season-4-bryan-fuller-2017-1201699020/)
:)
http://www.empireonline.com/movies/news/bryan-fuller-confirms-talks-hannibal-tv-revival-underway/
And they now officially have.
megladon8
01-31-2020, 03:58 PM
Watched seasons 1 and 2 about 5 years ago, and by the time I acquired 3 too much time had passed and I didn't want to watch it without rewatching the whole series.
Did seasons 1 and 2 over the last couple of weeks, and watched the first 2 episodes of season 3 last night.
This show is magnificent.
I mean, it has a few flaws particularly in characterization that bug me, but not enough to even come close to spoiling the experience.
Yxklyx
03-29-2021, 07:35 PM
I stopped watching when Crawford lets Hannibal get away a second time. Also, it didn't make sense that he had the upper hand in the fight when they were previously shown to be equals. It all felt contrived like many other parts of season 3. More like the last straw for me but I may attempt to finish it later this year.
StuSmallz
03-31-2021, 06:24 AM
I stopped watching when Crawford lets Hannibal get away a second time. Also, it didn't make sense that he had the upper hand in the fight when they were previously shown to be equals. It all felt contrived like many other parts of season 3. More like the last straw for me but I may attempt to finish it later this year.I liked Season 3 as a whole, but it did feel like a step down from 2, since it relied too much on just adapting the Harris-penned material, which we've obviously already seen adapted before (multiple times, in the case of the material from Red Dragon), as opposed to 2, which had a better balance between the Harris stuff and the new, show-original details, which is why it was the peak of the series for me.
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