Hannibal

There is a point where Will's future is being discussed by both the head "good" and "evil" representatives in his life and as they're talking their faces come together to meld into one face and I about lost it. Could be the single greatest scene in television history unless you count that time Tim "The Tool Man" Taylor needed advice from his neighbor Mr. Wilson on Home Improvement.

Surprisingly great show that should be terrible. First started as a guilty pleasure, a pretentious serial killer of the week anchored by the extremely homoerotic dynamic between Mikkelsen and Dancy. By the end of the season it's established itself, and the second & third seasons are fantastic and equal if not eclipse SotL. In terms of pushing the boundaries on what can be shown on television, Hannibal is more or less at the top of the pile - "Is your social worker in that horse?"

The first season is awesome, no denying that. But something shifts around the beginning of second season, writing becomes increasingly forced and characters become less believable and stretched thinner and thinner with each episode. By the beginning of third season I found myself not caring if Jack and Will survived season two finale. Realising that, I couldn't be bothered watching it anymore.

very few shows i've seen have better represented the psychology of their characters cinematically, even if that psychology can be kinda alienating in its narcissism. despite my rating i increasingly think of it as some kind of masterpiece.

The first season was a truly sumptuous treat, and the best non-final season of ANY show to air in 2013; a show where characters and narrative melted away in service of a rich, dark, intoxicating visual poetry, an operatic theatre of the macabre whose genre I'd really describe as something more akin to urban fantasy than procedural. In an odd and unique twist, the more serialized the show became in seasons 2 and 3, the less I loved it. I missed the murder installation art weekly cases from S1.

LOUD NOISES - the series. It could be a genuinely fantastic show. The sadism is there. Mads' Hannibal is passable. Gillian Anderson's character is interesting. But for some reason we need to spend 90 percent of the running time inside Hugh Dancy's whiny imagination, listening to his whiny pseudo philosophy and LOUD NOISES. He seems to be the whiny older brother of that whiny dude who plays Daredevil. Pretentious.

Excellent. I miss it. Complete series.

Hannibal is one of my favourite fictional characters and the choice of Mads Mikkelsen to portray him in the TV show was inspired. Some episodes are like visiting a grotesque art exhibit.

For mine, season 1 could be tied neatly in a bow and left as is. Whenever I recommend the show, I tell people to think of the various macabre but artistic murders in the film Seven & then picture equally inventive recreations under the knife of Dr Hannibal. Quite frequently through some of the probing dinner chat between Fishburne and Mikkelsen, I'd half expect one of them to clear the table with a swipe of an arm & engage in one of the strangest, yet understandable on-screen sex scenes to date.

Some of the best cinematography I've ever seen on a TV show. Mads Mikkelsen is great as always making the iconic role his own. How the fuck was this on NBC?