Creators:
Bryan FullerComposer:
Brian ReitzellCast:
Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Gillian Anderson, Hettienne Park, Kacey Rohl (more)VOD (3)
Seasons(3) / Episodes(39)
Plots(1)
Before "The Silence of the Lambs", before "Red Dragon", Dr. Hannibal Lecter was a brilliant psychiatrist in the employ of the FBI. His task: to help an unusually gifted criminal profiler, Will Graham, who is haunted by his ability to see into the minds of serial killers.
After a particularly grueling case hunting a serial killer known as the Minnesota Shrike, Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) threatens to walk away. Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), the head of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit, desperately needs Will on his team to break the tough cases, so he enlists Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to ensure Will's mental well-being. Unbeknownst to Will, Hannibal also has a particular insight into these horrible crimes and the psychopaths who commit them. As Will hunts down brutal killers, he is unknowingly sitting across from the most gifted killer of them all. It is in this cat and mouse game each week that we will begin to see a relationship grow between Will and Hannibal – two men who have more in common than anyone could know. (official distributor synopsis)
(more)Reviews of this series by the user DaViD´82 (1)
Hannibal (2013)
An immersive, bleak atmosphere, impressive disturbing images, delightfully uncompromising and obscure main storyline, elaborate ambiguous characters who get under your skin (Hannibal, Abigail, Will, Du Maurier, Crawford) and... And also the completely incomprehensible concept of “making each episode a standalone case". Which is an approach that fits here about as well as the current Slavia soccer team in the Champions League - not even in your wildest dreams. This strikes the eyes (ears, nose, head, and feet) all the more so because each one of these episodic cases is like an advertisement for a boring, routine, thriller-like, mediocrity illustrated. Some of them have potential, but because the creators devote at least half their time to the main story in each episode, they do not have the necessary space to develop. The only thing this approach succeeds in doing is to cut the main storyline into pieces, robbing it of any drive it ever had. If one of the big cable companies had taken over from the outset, it could have done without the annoying episodic "CSI elements" (as shown by the pilot and the finale), and Hannibal could have been a purebred dog that barks and bites properly. Unfortunately, under NBC's administration, a half-baked cat-dog has crawled out, that doesn't bark, bite, meow, or even purr.
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