I thought the pilot was odd. A strange mix of the more artful show that I would think Brian Fuller wants to make, and the hoary requirements of its network procedural format. So you stuff like have a long sequence where Will Graham rescues and cleans up a stray dog, coupled with an unsatisfying rush through its killer of the week plot with ridiculous leaps in psychological profiling.
Much prefered the pilot of his Munsters show, but I am intrigued enough to keep at this for an episode or two.
The FBI station in this for some reason has the same red bathroom as The Overlook Hotel.
Reprised in the second episode, which has Graham's unsettling dreams of a moose walking through a hospital, well staged and interesting exchanges between Graham and Lector, and a serial killer who's discovered and then apprehended by the end of the episode. But still, I am interested in looking and being inside of Graham's head and am definitely in to see where this goes.Quoting Winston* (view post)
How similar is this show to Dexter? The teaser I watched made it seem like the shows are nearly identical, with Hannibal Lecter in Dexter's role.
Contagion (Soderbergh, 2011) - 6.5
The Descendants (Payne, 2011) - 7.5
Midnight in Paris (Allen, 2011) - 5
Margin Call (Chandor, 2011) - 6.5
The Ides of March (Clooney, 2011) - 5
Not particularly. It's also shaping up to be a significantly more interesting show.
yeah definitely don't see any dexter in hannibal. i'll echo winston's sentiments
By the way, this was renewed. So I'll now go from tepidly, slowly going through the first few episodes and enjoying them in fear of cancellation to hopefully catching up soon.
Last 11 things I really enjoyed:
Speed Racer (Wachowski/Wachowski, 2008)
Safe (Haynes, 1995)
South Park: Bigger, Longer & Uncut (Parker, 1999)
Beastie Boys Story (Jonze, 2020)
Bad Trip (Sakurai, 2020)
What's Up Doc? (Bogdanovich, 1972)
Diva (Beineix, 1981)
Delicatessen (Caro/Jeunet, 1991)
The Hunger (Scott, 1983)
Pineapple Express (Green, 2008)
Chungking Express (Wong, 1994)
Only saw the pilot so far, but I quite liked it. It's nice to see a show that doesn't completely sensationalize violence, and instead focuses more on the impact it has on those to witness the aftermath. Hope it can keep this up.
It's like opposite The Following. Seriously, fuck The Following.
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Getting pumped for season two, huh?
Stop gloating because I didn't watch Revenge instead. I took a gamble and it didn't pay off.
Last movies seen
Frank: Good
Mistaken for Strangers: Good
Guardians of the Galaxy: Good
Last TV seasons watched
Treme (S04): Good
The Legend of Korra (S03): Good
Currently reading
This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald
It's not too late, Shoe.
It gets better.
I'm catching up. Watched episode 7 last night. All that 'food' preparation
There are only 13 eps? Hmm, maybe I can catch up before the Cutties.
...and the milk's in me.
Fuller has it in his contract that every season will be that long, which is great.
Gillian Anderson has a recurring role in the show if that interests anyone. Also, Kids in the Hall's Scott Thompson is in it.
Gretchen Speck-Horowitz, same actress and character from episode 2 of Wonderfalls, just picked up the wrong insulin at the pharmacy. She even quotes her line from that episode, "I lost the hyphen, kept the ring." Which means that Wonderfalls and Hannibal take place in the same universe, which means that it's entirely possible Graham will start having conversations with wax lions.
Also, I'm going to be sad if Gretchen Speck-Horowitz is killed and made into mushrooms when Jaye went to all the trouble of fixing her life by breaking up her marriage.
...and the milk's in me.
She survived! Poor Gretchen has had it rough since peaking in high school.
By the way, I'm annoyed at this show for having lots of scenes in Baltimore without ever filming in Baltimore. It's filming in Toronto, CITY OF LIES.
...and the milk's in me.
The mushroom villain was so silly. Worked for some great grotesque images though.
I love the art design on this show. Hannibal's office is the best.
The establishing shots are of Baltimore, though. Mostly of the Inner Harbor, where people don't live. And since Dr. Lecter has a free-standing house with wide inner rooms, I'm going to pretend he lives in one of those outlying neighborhoods on the top part of the city, like Roland Park.
...and the milk's in me.
This show takes place in, like, an alternative reality where hundreds of people go missing every day, and most of them are found in the most absurd possible ways. And everyone's pretty jaded about it.
"Hey, where's Aunt Cathy?"
"You know, I haven't seen her in a few weeks. She's probably been flayed, dipped in resin and posed into dining room furniture somewhere. I guess we'll see."
It's a good show, but the gore is sort of silly and over-the-top.
...and the milk's in me.
Well, the show isn't going for realism. The self-conscious Grand Guignol quality is one of the aspects that makes the show compelling to me and separates it from other procedurals.
My favorite parts so far are the inter-character relationships, especially with a focus on friendship. It's rare for a television show to acknowledge that the desire for friendship and the expressions of friendship can be just as intense, twisted, and weird as the romantic and sexual relationships.
...and the milk's in me.
Gillian Anderson is so ridiculously beautiful that it is honestly distracting.
...and the milk's in me.
Ooh hoo! Just caught the finale. Awesome stuff-- way to mess with the status quo. This has been a really intriguing first season.
Between Mikkleson's accent and Dancy's assumed accent / mumbling, I have to crank the volume really loud. I wish NBC streaming had captions.
...and the milk's in me.
Yeah, great finale. Somehow, in an episode featuring a terrifying charcoal black elk man, what disturbed me more was the dinner scene between Lector and Dr Du Maurier, where they're eating "veal" and Lector's talking about calfs and it's probably Abigail and Dr Du Maurier might know that and ugh ugh just turned my stomach inside out.
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