Hannibal (Season One)

[Winston*]

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.

[Winston*]

The FBI station in this for some reason has the same red bathroom as The Overlook Hotel.

[Neclord]

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.

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.

[chrisnu]

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.

[Winston*]

How similar is this show to Dexter?

Not particularly. It's also shaping up to be a significantly more interesting show.

[Acapelli]

yeah definitely don't see any dexter in hannibal. i'll echo winston's sentiments

[Henry Gale]

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.

[Morris Schæffer]

Gonna watch episode 9 of this soon. Not bad so far, not bad at all, but utterly preposterous in how there's a hugely elaborate murder scene every single episode. Perhaps it's part of a masterplan yet to be revealed, but this bothers me a bit at the moment. And I also still haven't quite tuned in to Graham's nearly psychic abilities complete with the silly yellow laser-like line sweeping across the screen accompanied by a swoosh swoosh sound.

The scenes I find nearly the strongest are whenever we see Hannibal cooking and serving food to his guests and explaining what he's whipped up. I honestly can't get enough of those scenes.

[amberlita]

I just finished Season 1 and my verdict is that this show is totally fucked up. I don't know how it lasted this long on broadcast TV. I also don't know how Mara has been able to stomach it.

[Mara]

I just finished Season 1 and my verdict is that this show is totally fucked up. I don't know how it lasted this long on broadcast TV. I also don't know how Mara has been able to stomach it.

A combination of three factors:

1. It's heavily stylized.
2. It's sooooooo good.
3. Sometimes I hide behind my fingers.

Also, season 2 is great, but season 3 is next-level amazing.

[Peng]

If you thought Season 1 was already fucked up... wait for Season 2, which is glorious and still my favorite season.

[Yxklyx]

Finished this season the other day and am loving it! Started season two tonight. I agree that there's a bit too much serial killing going on for this to be a realistic story in any way shape or form. I'm also a bit disoriented, except for the first killing is everything else going on in Virginia/Maryland? Where exactly are scores (have we hit 100 yet?) of people being killed? They need to add location text to the opening scenes - or maybe the lack of that accentuates the unreality of it all. Also I'm pretty sure that there is no place that looks anything like the Grafton West Virginia beach scene in West Virginia - that was filmed next to an ocean or Great Lake. That just added to all the disorientation. I also love the style!