Tag: Hannibal

After shedding comparisons to (and outdoing) other portrayals of Hannibal Lecter in the show’s first season, Mikkelsen focused on showing the slippery pychopath’s strength and his heart. Mikkelsen revealed his brutal killer’s softer side as he was unable to walk away from his friendship with Will Graham, even after Will tried to have him killed. Mikkelsen continued to mix menace and charm as he nurtured Will’s fledgling psychopathy with beautifully rendered affection — which of course turned into searing, vulnerable anger when Hannibal’s heart is broken by Will’s long-con betrayal. If there was ever any doubt that this show is actually about its titular character, Mikkelsen removed it in Season 2.

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There is no show that sits with you quite like Hannibal. Lush and terrifying, Bryan Fuller’s intoxicating rendering of Thomas Harris’ classic franchise is a cinematic feast for the senses, from the oddly beautiful murder tableaux to Hannibal’s mouth-watering dinner spreads to the moody score. But more stunningly, the show is a brilliant psychological tango between Hugh Dancy’s Will and Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal — made even better by Season 2’s cat-and-mouse role reversal — that’s rewriting the serial killer genre as we speak. It’s a show that’s not just rare on network TV, but all of TV.

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One of the most disturbing shows on TV is also one of the most sincere, and that dichotomy injects tension and pathos into almost every scene. It’s hard to watch, but “Hannibal” rarely loses sight of Will Graham’s humanity – and Hannibal Lecter’s fascination with the psychological mechanisms that make that humanity possible.

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