*Scream* you are watching Hannibal!!!! Omg! I am HERE for this! Hobbs was the serial killer. The Copycat (Hannibal) gift wrapped that body in the field just to help Will refine his profile. And yes, as the season goes along that freak flag flies HIGH!
AAAA YESS!! This show gets SO strange and SO much better than a case-of-the-week procedural, so I really hope you stick with it and go down the rabbit hole. Also, if I remember right, they specifically hired a specialized food dresser/photographer to ensure that all the meals looked unnervingly delicious and appetizing - just to screw with viewer's heads a little bit more. :)
I hope you end up watching the rest of Hannibal on the channel (or off, if need be)! I was skeptical when I initially started watching because the first handful of episodes feel a bit more like typical procedural stuff, but it gets SO much weirder and more interesting as it goes. In seasons 2 and 3 it becomes increasingly hard to believe that this show was on network television (NBC), not only because of how gory and disturbing it is at times, but also because of how stylistically strange and impressionistic it gets. I was sad when it got canceled but also still kind of amazed that it stayed on the air as long as it did.
I'm still in awe of how much this show got away with on regular television. I remember they did black out some sex scenes (but, apparently, not the violence 😑)
I adore this show so much 🤩 Every frame is a painting, the sound design is immaculate, the casting is incredible and the changes from the books are mostly for the best. Please watch for the channel!!!
Oh please please please continue you will love it! It knows it's ridiculous and leans in hard. (this autistic relates so hard to will graham that precious vulnerable gremlin of a man) the hunger is also so real. Janice Poon did the food design for the show and blogged about it and it's so fun!
YESSSS I hope y’all become Fannibals! Even if you don’t cover the full thing on the channel. Three, great,solid seasons of aesthetic camp. Like a fanfic of the Hannibal universe. Black humor, art history references/art directed tableaus, spooky, bitchy. Food styling by Janice Poon. The budding relation-ship of Hannigram. BON APPETIT
My all time favorite show! It's so good. Bryan Fuller created something very special. If you are already picking up on the vibes between Hannibal and Will... just you wait. PS- If you have AMC+, Hannibal is on there without commercials so you could maybe watch it for the channel. 😀
Oh my God this is the most exciting development on this channel. This is a special gem. I'm so glad you two are back.😁 Aww, only a one time treat. But it was a really nice one. My suggestion: blue eye samurai. I think it's the best show of last year. I think it's one of the top 3 best shows of all time for me. It's up there in terms of emotional depth with six feet under. It's... Phenomenal.
So excited to see you guys react to this, even if it's just one episode. And yes, you can see where they're trying (and probably being pressured by the network to do so) to make it look like more of a mainstream detective show. I don't think it's a spoil to clarify that the guy with the daughter was the original killer that they were investigating. Hannibal committed the copycat murder (they cut from "he cut her lungs out" to Hannibal kneading what looks like lungs on his counter). Hannibal was trying to help Will see the original crimes more clearly by doing a sort of parody of them.
This show was once described as, "if gay porn and a cooking show had a baby, then ate it." Please continue, it's wonderfully done in a weird way, and wraps up nicely despite its cancellation
You guys made me laugh so much. This is my first time watching your content and I absolutely LOVE your energy!! This show is SO good, and absolutely FREAKYYYY. I promise, it gets really weird, violent, and gay. Very Tumblr worthy.
Oh this show is right up your alley, just keep watching! The dramatics, the aesthetic, the crazy... I can only judge from what I've seen on your channel, but I really think you'll vibe with this show a lot! To clear things up: Hobbs was the serial killer they were looking for. Hannibal murdered and mounted that one girl as an antithesis to the serial killer's mo to help Will see clearer. Don't feel bad about missing that, it's a little confusing, especially for a pilot.
HANNIBAL! YESSSS! I really hope you guys end up watching the entire show, because it's such a good show. There are dvd boxes for pretty cheap and this show switches to new streaming services every so often. Note that Will says he's not autistic, he says he's closer to autistics than to sociopaths. I can't remember if this is purely a fan creation thing, or if it's from the Red Dragon book, but Will is supposed to have some kind of disorder that messed with his empathy abilities, there is an explanation that I can't remember. The show never goes into details, but Will Graham is not supposed to be autistic, he is autistic coded for sure, and he is definitely not neurotypical. I think the show does mention once that he has some rare thing that people would love to study. Yes, you are correct, the police procedural thing lasts for half a season at most, and even then it kind of ignores the actual clue finding and evidence gathering in favour of conversations about murder and god. Which is why I always say to people that they are not supposed to solve the crime, don't watch it for that, it's only wearing the mask of a police procedural for a short time, watch it for the characters and their interactions, and the super artistic food and murder and murderfood. The shippers started shipping based on quite a lot more than just eye contact 😂 Bryan Fuller has said that the homoeroticism between Hannibal and Will wasn't initially (purposefully) written in, but because of the chemistry and acting of Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy it became very noticeable in the first season, so that influenced what he wrote for the following seasons. I don't know that Hannibal warning Hobbs was out of respect. Hobbs killed all of the girls, except the one girl in the field. Hannibal was the copycat; uncaring about his victims, organs taken while she was alive, lungs taken, Hannibal is cooking lungs 2 seconds later. You're meant to put those clues together. And yes, Hannibal is absolutely the type to make his own sausages, I'm pretty sure there is a scene where he is doing precisely that, making his own sausages. Assume most of his food is in some way made with human remains. I really think you guys will enjoy the rest and how unhinged it becomes. Bryan Fuller has said that this show was supposed to look like an 80s art film. I'm pretty sure this was an instruction for a new director who came in to shoot episodes for season 3. I'm not sure if he also used the term fanfic, but he definitely described the show as a mash up of elements from all the books about Hannibal. The first season mostly uses the characters from Red Dragon, events, and a few mentioned things from that book (Hobbs is mentioned, so is Hannibal and Will working together), other seasons use plot elements, characters and events from all the books. They didn't have the rights to use Clarice or Buffalo Bill, so those two aren't in the show.
The show runner for this also immediately before doing this show did two brilliant comedies in Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies. So I was shocked he was doing something so dark and violent. But he nailed it. He even has a crossover with a beloved character from Wonderfalls in this show. So good.
Hannibal did all that for the lolz, we the audience are supposed to know that. *Watch the pilot for the anime Berserk 1997 (dark fantasy), Elfen Lied (sci-fi/horror), Attack on Titan (survival/horror), March Comes in Like a Lion (drama), Spy x Family (comedy), Chainsaw Man (horror/comedy).
omg please continue watching hannibal! it's such a great exmaple of beautiful cinematography, writing, acting, everything. the characters are such well-written and complex people that really have you wondering what in the fuck they're thinking all the time. watching the characters change and develop over the seasons and episodes? amazing. this show is my roman empire.
omg omg omg omg please please please react to the rest of the show! Its seriously so good. I hit subscribe so fast 🤣 its a philosophical, psychological mind fuck and beautifully shot. It is in an entirely different league to Sherlock
Hobbs was the serial killer they began the episode hunting. Hannibal was the copycat. HE killed the girl in the field to help Will see what he was missing and find Hobbs. Hannibal called Hobbs to warn him because he wanted to see what would happen. Hannibal wanted to see if Will had it in him to kill, to see if his interest in Will was not misplaced.
Jessa’s instincts are correct about the copycat. Hobbs is the serial killer they’re following. The victim in the field on the stag horn was the copycat, b*stardization of the other kills.
The episode titles are courses of a meal 😉 This persists across the seasons. There's a LOT of highbrow references in the show (art, theatre, literature, opera, cuisine, etc). I found researching whatever I didn't understand to be a fun little treat. Also, the editing in this show is very purposeful and is part of the storytelling. Cutting from the copycat's 'field kabuki' to Hannibal preparing lungs is visual coding that he is the copycat.
Yeah, they do that several times "he took her [insert organ or body part here]" smash cut to Hannibal cooking food with that body part. I can think of three serious versions of that scene, and one where they kind of poke fun.
Oh! Speaking of Sherlock Holmes: if y'all haven't watched "Psych", definitely give it a shot. It's the best Sherlock adaptation of all time. Incredibly funny and fun, and Shawn and Gus' friendship is among the best in tv history. The pilot should give you a damn good idea if it's a show you want to keep watching. And unrelated: have y'all seen Community? It's one of the funniest shows of all-time (except season 4; not sure what happened there). It starts off a little weird but goes off the rails pretty quickly. I'd recommend s03e17, "Basic Lupine Urology", as the episode to watch to see if it's worth investing your time in. I'm much more confident that you'd both like Psych than Community... I'm confident that there are *some* episodes of Community that you'd enjoy very much, but the show as a whole? Less certain. But give that ep - s03e17 - a gander; that should be pretty an excellent litmus test.
Yeah, I never read this as 'autism gives you superpowers' thing, more that it's an insight into maybe how his brain works. He's smart, but he's not like superpowered smart. He also has a lot of things he struggles with.
Hannibal killed the girl they found in the field. This time he decided to copycat another murderer. All the other girls were killed by the guy Will shot.
1 - I feel like "autism gives you super powers" is a *tad* unfair. He's uncharacteristically empathetic; add to that a lifetime of study in forensic profiling and he's simply *very* good at what he does. And the visuals showing his unerring accuracy... well, it's a tv show. (I mean, yeah, it's not entirely off base. But I don't feel like it's quite as clear-cut as you may think.) 2 - It didn't start off *that* normal 3 - I honestly think Brian Cox is a better Hannibal than Anthony Hopkins. And while it's not fair - he gets a whole tv show, with multiple seasons, to make the character his own - Mads Mikkelsen is the best Hannibal. 4 - My favorite reactor, Ana Colli, just reacted to "Wonderfalls" last month. I'd've never seen it... apparently Caroline Dhavernas (Alana Bloom) plays the main character. I'm very rarely surprised that an actor can play two different roles, but it was jarring seeing her playing such a different role after seeing her for so long as Alana Bloom. 5 - Hettienne Park (Beverly Katz) is so fucking charming and likeable. Honestly probably my favorite character in this show, despite her way-too-little screentime 6 - Eddie Izzard eventually shows up. A very witty, smart comedian. One could - I guess? - classify the next points as spoilers but only if you've read the books or seen all the movies; I talk about which season covers which book, and what movie covered it first. And casting. But if you haven't seen the books or read the movies, it's not really a spoiler since you won't know the story of the killer. And even if you have, the way it unfolds is, at least in parts, very different in the show. 7 - For the record, Will Graham is the FBI agent (in the books, I'm pretty sure he's an FBI profiler, in the 2 movies ditto; here he seems more like an FBI consultant?) who catches Hannibal. In the first movie, "Manhunter", he's played by William Petersen, whom you'd probably know from CSI. In the 2nd movie (named after the book, "Red Dragon"), he's played by Ed Norton. IMO Manhunter is better, and Brian Cox is phenomenal as Hannibal. But both movies have stellar casts; Manhunter - Dennis Farina as Jack Crawford (here played by Laurence Fishburne), Stephen Lang as Freddy Lounds, Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde; in Red Dragon, Harvey Keitel as Jack Crawford, Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dollarhyde, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddy Lounds. 8 - Late season 2 explores the story of Mason Verger (the 3rd book? A movie called Hannibal, Verger played by Gary Oldman); that section is probably my favorite in the show. Early season 3 struggled to hold my attention; I honestly think I stopped watching 4-5 episodes into season 3. IMDb tells me season 3 eventually got into Red Dragon territory. I thought the show lasted 4 or 5 seasons, but IMDb is telling me 3. Huh. If I only have half a season to watch to finish it, maybe I'll do that. (Especially since it's Red Dragon.)
Another note on this looking like a police procedural, it's very much not, especially if you think about the logistics for a bit. Think about Hannibal's murder in the field. He takes Cassie Boyle, but doesn't kill her yet. Drags her to a field. Trudges back to his car to drag a giant mounted stag's head (which he stole from somewhere near I think they say, how did he fit that into his car?) to that field, back to the car for his tools and cooler, schleps back to Cassie and the head, kills her, takes her lungs, and then cleans up, and carries his cooler with lungs back to his car, and all of this presumably takes place close enough to Hobbs killing ground (in Minnesota I think?) to implicate him. How did Hannibal get those lungs back to his own house to cook them? This show tells you to not bother about those details, look at the artistic representation of this dead body/cooked person, and don't worry about how in the world Hannibal (or other killer) managed to display that body without a crane and a forklift and a few days to get it all in place.
I'd highly recommend watching this show on your own time if you find it interesting. I absolutely fell in love with it personally. It's been my hyperfixation for the past few months lmao.
The show is really good, and every cast member is willing to come back to do the Silence of the Lambs arc.. Bryan Fuller, the creator, gender swapped a lot of characters (making them female), and wanted to make Clarice Latina. Fuller is behind Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, etc. It is procedural for a bit, but it goes on the be incredible. Oh, and Mongoose are small, marmot like animals, one of the only able to kill King Cobras. It’s meant to make you think that although Will isn’t a killer, he very well could be, if he found the snake dangerous, or worthy of death. Please give it a chance, as you at least need to see Gillian Anderson as Hannibal’s therapist, Bedelia Du Maurier. She’s quite fun by season 3, and my eternal pan crush.
I love your vibes and reaction! pls pls watch and (if it can) pls put this show in the channel. (We need more reacts for the show 😭) Hannibal is such a good show it'll be worth it to finish it through 💕
Yes, you were right. Hannibal was the copycat. He tells Jack “I think I can help good Will see his face.” Then we cut to the field with the body. The lungs were cut out while she was still alive. Then we see Hannibal cooking lungs. Will says this kill was a copy cat that practically gift wrapped the kill so he could learn more about the main killer.
Ok, so 1) I would be 100% up for a big-budget historical drama about Hannibal Barca. As long as Ridley Scott wasn't in charge; he already ruined Napoleon. 2) Who'd have thought that the guy who made "Pushing Daisies" also had this in him?
Please please please let them bring this to the channel, there's not enough reactors to this show and its so good😣🙏🏽
Agreed
It gets MUCH better and MUCH weirder
*Scream* you are watching Hannibal!!!! Omg! I am HERE for this!
Hobbs was the serial killer. The Copycat (Hannibal) gift wrapped that body in the field just to help Will refine his profile. And yes, as the season goes along that freak flag flies HIGH!
AAAA YESS!! This show gets SO strange and SO much better than a case-of-the-week procedural, so I really hope you stick with it and go down the rabbit hole. Also, if I remember right, they specifically hired a specialized food dresser/photographer to ensure that all the meals looked unnervingly delicious and appetizing - just to screw with viewer's heads a little bit more. :)
I hope you end up watching the rest of Hannibal on the channel (or off, if need be)! I was skeptical when I initially started watching because the first handful of episodes feel a bit more like typical procedural stuff, but it gets SO much weirder and more interesting as it goes.
In seasons 2 and 3 it becomes increasingly hard to believe that this show was on network television (NBC), not only because of how gory and disturbing it is at times, but also because of how stylistically strange and impressionistic it gets. I was sad when it got canceled but also still kind of amazed that it stayed on the air as long as it did.
I'm still in awe of how much this show got away with on regular television.
I remember they did black out some sex scenes (but, apparently, not the violence 😑)
I adore this show so much 🤩 Every frame is a painting, the sound design is immaculate, the casting is incredible and the changes from the books are mostly for the best.
Please watch for the channel!!!
This show is worth going through. The next few seasons get cray crazy
Oh my GOD I am so excited!!!!!! Please watch the series.
Oh please please please continue you will love it! It knows it's ridiculous and leans in hard.
(this autistic relates so hard to will graham that precious vulnerable gremlin of a man)
the hunger is also so real. Janice Poon did the food design for the show and blogged about it and it's so fun!
We love that special little boy with the big imagination
YESSSS I hope y’all become Fannibals! Even if you don’t cover the full thing on the channel. Three, great,solid seasons of aesthetic camp. Like a fanfic of the Hannibal universe. Black humor, art history references/art directed tableaus, spooky, bitchy. Food styling by Janice Poon. The budding relation-ship of Hannigram. BON APPETIT
My all time favorite show! It's so good. Bryan Fuller created something very special. If you are already picking up on the vibes between Hannibal and Will... just you wait.
PS- If you have AMC+, Hannibal is on there without commercials so you could maybe watch it for the channel. 😀
Oh good to know!
Oh my God this is the most exciting development on this channel. This is a special gem. I'm so glad you two are back.😁
Aww, only a one time treat. But it was a really nice one.
My suggestion: blue eye samurai. I think it's the best show of last year. I think it's one of the top 3 best shows of all time for me. It's up there in terms of emotional depth with six feet under. It's... Phenomenal.
So excited to see you guys react to this, even if it's just one episode. And yes, you can see where they're trying (and probably being pressured by the network to do so) to make it look like more of a mainstream detective show.
I don't think it's a spoil to clarify that the guy with the daughter was the original killer that they were investigating. Hannibal committed the copycat murder (they cut from "he cut her lungs out" to Hannibal kneading what looks like lungs on his counter). Hannibal was trying to help Will see the original crimes more clearly by doing a sort of parody of them.
Thanks for clarifying!
Best series of its genre ever made. Watch all 3 seasons. You will not be disappointed!
Yes. Yes. A thousand times yes.
This show was once described as, "if gay porn and a cooking show had a baby, then ate it."
Please continue, it's wonderfully done in a weird way, and wraps up nicely despite its cancellation
I would love it if you watched this show.
You guys made me laugh so much. This is my first time watching your content and I absolutely LOVE your energy!! This show is SO good, and absolutely FREAKYYYY. I promise, it gets really weird, violent, and gay. Very Tumblr worthy.
9:48 right on the money how it becomes more indulgent and less interested in Killer of the Week eventually.
Oh this show is right up your alley, just keep watching! The dramatics, the aesthetic, the crazy... I can only judge from what I've seen on your channel, but I really think you'll vibe with this show a lot!
To clear things up: Hobbs was the serial killer they were looking for. Hannibal murdered and mounted that one girl as an antithesis to the serial killer's mo to help Will see clearer. Don't feel bad about missing that, it's a little confusing, especially for a pilot.
HANNIBAL! YESSSS!
I really hope you guys end up watching the entire show, because it's such a good show. There are dvd boxes for pretty cheap and this show switches to new streaming services every so often.
Note that Will says he's not autistic, he says he's closer to autistics than to sociopaths. I can't remember if this is purely a fan creation thing, or if it's from the Red Dragon book, but Will is supposed to have some kind of disorder that messed with his empathy abilities, there is an explanation that I can't remember. The show never goes into details, but Will Graham is not supposed to be autistic, he is autistic coded for sure, and he is definitely not neurotypical. I think the show does mention once that he has some rare thing that people would love to study.
Yes, you are correct, the police procedural thing lasts for half a season at most, and even then it kind of ignores the actual clue finding and evidence gathering in favour of conversations about murder and god. Which is why I always say to people that they are not supposed to solve the crime, don't watch it for that, it's only wearing the mask of a police procedural for a short time, watch it for the characters and their interactions, and the super artistic food and murder and murderfood.
The shippers started shipping based on quite a lot more than just eye contact 😂 Bryan Fuller has said that the homoeroticism between Hannibal and Will wasn't initially (purposefully) written in, but because of the chemistry and acting of Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy it became very noticeable in the first season, so that influenced what he wrote for the following seasons.
I don't know that Hannibal warning Hobbs was out of respect.
Hobbs killed all of the girls, except the one girl in the field. Hannibal was the copycat; uncaring about his victims, organs taken while she was alive, lungs taken, Hannibal is cooking lungs 2 seconds later. You're meant to put those clues together. And yes, Hannibal is absolutely the type to make his own sausages, I'm pretty sure there is a scene where he is doing precisely that, making his own sausages. Assume most of his food is in some way made with human remains.
I really think you guys will enjoy the rest and how unhinged it becomes.
Bryan Fuller has said that this show was supposed to look like an 80s art film. I'm pretty sure this was an instruction for a new director who came in to shoot episodes for season 3. I'm not sure if he also used the term fanfic, but he definitely described the show as a mash up of elements from all the books about Hannibal. The first season mostly uses the characters from Red Dragon, events, and a few mentioned things from that book (Hobbs is mentioned, so is Hannibal and Will working together), other seasons use plot elements, characters and events from all the books. They didn't have the rights to use Clarice or Buffalo Bill, so those two aren't in the show.
The show runner for this also immediately before doing this show did two brilliant comedies in Wonderfalls and Pushing Daisies. So I was shocked he was doing something so dark and violent. But he nailed it. He even has a crossover with a beloved character from Wonderfalls in this show. So good.
Hannibal did all that for the lolz, we the audience are supposed to know that.
*Watch the pilot for the anime Berserk 1997 (dark fantasy), Elfen Lied (sci-fi/horror), Attack on Titan (survival/horror), March Comes in Like a Lion (drama), Spy x Family (comedy), Chainsaw Man (horror/comedy).
omg please continue watching hannibal! it's such a great exmaple of beautiful cinematography, writing, acting, everything. the characters are such well-written and complex people that really have you wondering what in the fuck they're thinking all the time. watching the characters change and develop over the seasons and episodes? amazing. this show is my roman empire.
This show is AMAZING!!
omg omg omg omg please please please react to the rest of the show! Its seriously so good. I hit subscribe so fast 🤣 its a philosophical, psychological mind fuck and beautifully shot. It is in an entirely different league to Sherlock
One of the best written shows of all time. Hope you stick with it cause season 1 is good, but season 2 and 3 are scrumptious
pls watch the rest of the show it’s so good and they’re aren’t enough reactions to this show 🙏🙏🙏
Hobbs was the serial killer they began the episode hunting. Hannibal was the copycat. HE killed the girl in the field to help Will see what he was missing and find Hobbs. Hannibal called Hobbs to warn him because he wanted to see what would happen. Hannibal wanted to see if Will had it in him to kill, to see if his interest in Will was not misplaced.
Yeah, Will said it was like it was gift wrapped
Jessa’s instincts are correct about the copycat. Hobbs is the serial killer they’re following. The victim in the field on the stag horn was the copycat, b*stardization of the other kills.
the food designer's name is Janice Poon, she actually put out an "eating hannibal" cook book.
Please watch more of this!!!! Genuinely the best show to come from network television. It’s on its Wikipedia article and everything.
The episode titles are courses of a meal 😉 This persists across the seasons. There's a LOT of highbrow references in the show (art, theatre, literature, opera, cuisine, etc). I found researching whatever I didn't understand to be a fun little treat.
Also, the editing in this show is very purposeful and is part of the storytelling. Cutting from the copycat's 'field kabuki' to Hannibal preparing lungs is visual coding that he is the copycat.
Yeah, they do that several times "he took her [insert organ or body part here]" smash cut to Hannibal cooking food with that body part. I can think of three serious versions of that scene, and one where they kind of poke fun.
It only gets better from here!
Actually recommend checking the whole thing out!
Oh boy, yall gotta continue this!
Oh! Speaking of Sherlock Holmes: if y'all haven't watched "Psych", definitely give it a shot. It's the best Sherlock adaptation of all time. Incredibly funny and fun, and Shawn and Gus' friendship is among the best in tv history.
The pilot should give you a damn good idea if it's a show you want to keep watching.
And unrelated: have y'all seen Community? It's one of the funniest shows of all-time (except season 4; not sure what happened there). It starts off a little weird but goes off the rails pretty quickly. I'd recommend s03e17, "Basic Lupine Urology", as the episode to watch to see if it's worth investing your time in.
I'm much more confident that you'd both like Psych than Community... I'm confident that there are *some* episodes of Community that you'd enjoy very much, but the show as a whole? Less certain. But give that ep - s03e17 - a gander; that should be pretty an excellent litmus test.
Yeah, I never read this as 'autism gives you superpowers' thing, more that it's an insight into maybe how his brain works. He's smart, but he's not like superpowered smart.
He also has a lot of things he struggles with.
ohmygodohmygod faves watching a fave
PLEASE continue to watch this 🙏
The first thing I watched with Hugh Dancy was Ella Enchanted too. Love that movie.
Hannibal killed the girl they found in the field. This time he decided to copycat another murderer. All the other girls were killed by the guy Will shot.
Bryan n Joss suffered similar fates as creators from a business standpoint
Ohhhhhh heck yes! So excited to see your reaction!!
this show is a treat for the senses🥰 not sure if you've seen it yet, but orphan black would probably be right up your alley
Oh my gosh!!! Please think about watching the entire series. It's so good.
Happy 11th Hanniversary to the show!
1 - I feel like "autism gives you super powers" is a *tad* unfair. He's uncharacteristically empathetic; add to that a lifetime of study in forensic profiling and he's simply *very* good at what he does. And the visuals showing his unerring accuracy... well, it's a tv show.
(I mean, yeah, it's not entirely off base. But I don't feel like it's quite as clear-cut as you may think.)
2 - It didn't start off *that* normal
3 - I honestly think Brian Cox is a better Hannibal than Anthony Hopkins. And while it's not fair - he gets a whole tv show, with multiple seasons, to make the character his own - Mads Mikkelsen is the best Hannibal.
4 - My favorite reactor, Ana Colli, just reacted to "Wonderfalls" last month. I'd've never seen it... apparently Caroline Dhavernas (Alana Bloom) plays the main character. I'm very rarely surprised that an actor can play two different roles, but it was jarring seeing her playing such a different role after seeing her for so long as Alana Bloom.
5 - Hettienne Park (Beverly Katz) is so fucking charming and likeable. Honestly probably my favorite character in this show, despite her way-too-little screentime
6 - Eddie Izzard eventually shows up. A very witty, smart comedian.
One could - I guess? - classify the next points as spoilers but only if you've read the books or seen all the movies; I talk about which season covers which book, and what movie covered it first. And casting. But if you haven't seen the books or read the movies, it's not really a spoiler since you won't know the story of the killer. And even if you have, the way it unfolds is, at least in parts, very different in the show.
7 - For the record, Will Graham is the FBI agent (in the books, I'm pretty sure he's an FBI profiler, in the 2 movies ditto; here he seems more like an FBI consultant?) who catches Hannibal. In the first movie, "Manhunter", he's played by William Petersen, whom you'd probably know from CSI. In the 2nd movie (named after the book, "Red Dragon"), he's played by Ed Norton.
IMO Manhunter is better, and Brian Cox is phenomenal as Hannibal. But both movies have stellar casts; Manhunter - Dennis Farina as Jack Crawford (here played by Laurence Fishburne), Stephen Lang as Freddy Lounds, Tom Noonan as Francis Dollarhyde; in Red Dragon, Harvey Keitel as Jack Crawford, Ralph Fiennes as Francis Dollarhyde, and Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddy Lounds.
8 - Late season 2 explores the story of Mason Verger (the 3rd book? A movie called Hannibal, Verger played by Gary Oldman); that section is probably my favorite in the show. Early season 3 struggled to hold my attention; I honestly think I stopped watching 4-5 episodes into season 3. IMDb tells me season 3 eventually got into Red Dragon territory.
I thought the show lasted 4 or 5 seasons, but IMDb is telling me 3. Huh. If I only have half a season to watch to finish it, maybe I'll do that. (Especially since it's Red Dragon.)
Another note on this looking like a police procedural, it's very much not, especially if you think about the logistics for a bit.
Think about Hannibal's murder in the field. He takes Cassie Boyle, but doesn't kill her yet. Drags her to a field. Trudges back to his car to drag a giant mounted stag's head (which he stole from somewhere near I think they say, how did he fit that into his car?) to that field, back to the car for his tools and cooler, schleps back to Cassie and the head, kills her, takes her lungs, and then cleans up, and carries his cooler with lungs back to his car, and all of this presumably takes place close enough to Hobbs killing ground (in Minnesota I think?) to implicate him.
How did Hannibal get those lungs back to his own house to cook them?
This show tells you to not bother about those details, look at the artistic representation of this dead body/cooked person, and don't worry about how in the world Hannibal (or other killer) managed to display that body without a crane and a forklift and a few days to get it all in place.
I'd highly recommend watching this show on your own time if you find it interesting. I absolutely fell in love with it personally. It's been my hyperfixation for the past few months lmao.
8:14 a fannibal is born
The show is really good, and every cast member is willing to come back to do the Silence of the Lambs arc.. Bryan Fuller, the creator, gender swapped a lot of characters (making them female), and wanted to make Clarice Latina. Fuller is behind Pushing Daisies, Wonderfalls, Dead Like Me, etc.
It is procedural for a bit, but it goes on the be incredible. Oh, and Mongoose are small, marmot like animals, one of the only able to kill King Cobras. It’s meant to make you think that although Will isn’t a killer, he very well could be, if he found the snake dangerous, or worthy of death.
Please give it a chance, as you at least need to see Gillian Anderson as Hannibal’s therapist, Bedelia Du Maurier. She’s quite fun by season 3, and my eternal pan crush.
I love your vibes and reaction!
pls pls watch and (if it can) pls put this show in the channel. (We need more reacts for the show 😭)
Hannibal is such a good show it'll be worth it to finish it through 💕
Bon appetit!
Please watch the series!
Yes, you were right. Hannibal was the copycat. He tells Jack “I think I can help good Will see his face.” Then we cut to the field with the body. The lungs were cut out while she was still alive. Then we see Hannibal cooking lungs. Will says this kill was a copy cat that practically gift wrapped the kill so he could learn more about the main killer.
Jessa and Alex Watch "If no one's told you this today, I love you." (Peter Monn)
Ok, so 1) I would be 100% up for a big-budget historical drama about Hannibal Barca. As long as Ridley Scott wasn't in charge; he already ruined Napoleon.
2) Who'd have thought that the guy who made "Pushing Daisies" also had this in him?
And also for the first season of American Gods!
React to this show!!!!! ❤❤❤
pleaseeee watch this series! u won't regret it
You both haven’t seen it sounds like it’s idle for reacting also another Brian fuller show dead like me watch it plz