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But it’s not just a beacon of depravity, because there are riveting performances from Mads Mikkelsen (putting Hopkins in the shade) and Hugh Dancy as tortured FBI profiler Will Graham. It’s so harrowing and twisted that it will only ever appeal to a niche audience, but that makes it all the more appealing. It’s one of TV’s best-kept secrets.

Expectation vs reality: Sherlock, Hannibal and 5 more surprise TV hits (x)

Against all the odds for network US TV, this is easily the darkest and most disturbing drama around, filled with stomach-churning gore and violence that puts The Walking Dead to shame.

Expectation vs reality: Sherlock, Hannibal and 5 more surprise TV hits (x)

In the kinky killverse of Hannibal, Will and Hannibal circle each other with all the operatic subtlety of characters in a Douglas Sirk melodrama; there’s an angle on Hannibal where every murder equals sex, and every time someone refers to Will and Hannibal’s “friendship” they’re referring to something very much else.

Entertainment Geekly: Why ‘Hannibal’ is the better version of ‘True Detective’ and ‘Fargo’ (x)

Hannibal never settles for easy answers. Even when you know that Hannibal Lecter is evil, the show takes his perspective on existence utterly seriously. He’s not a gibbering lunatic in the woods or a wandering loner who keeps running into a symbolic wolf; he’s a likable snob fascinated by human nature.

Entertainment Geekly: Why ‘Hannibal’ is the better version of ‘True Detective’ and ‘Fargo’ (x)

Even more impressive is how Fuller’s show interacts with Lecter’s onscreen history. It’s hard to think of a franchise with three movies as radically different as Michael Mann’s Manhunter, Jonathan Demme’s The Silence of the Lambs, and Ridley Scott’s Hannibal. Manhunter is cool, chilly, ’80s, pomo, electronic; Silence is bleak, gross, banal, kinky; Hannibal is cultured, operatic, bemused, architectural. Somehow Fuller’s Hannibal has weaved those three dishes into a new kind of meal

Entertainment Geekly: Why ‘Hannibal’ is the better version of ‘True Detective’ and ‘Fargo’ (x)

The cinematography is uncommonly rich, the costume choices suave and stylish: In an era of Thrones-style kinetic decadence, Hannibal has much more in common with Mad Men, telling whole stories with set design and impeccably patterned ties.

Entertainment Geekly: Why ‘Hannibal’ is the better version of ‘True Detective’ and ‘Fargo’ (x)