TV Review: Hannibal (3×09) – “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun”

Remakes are a weird thing, because as much as we try to take them on their own merits and ignore the original versions of stories, the very nature of remakes means that there will be areas that heavily remind us…

TV Review: Hannibal (3×08) – “The Great Red Dragon”

“The Great Red Dragon” represents a realignment for Hannibal as it enters the last half of its third (and most likely but hopefully not final) season. Hannibal Lecter is now imprisoned behind his glass cage, a familiar sight to those…

TV Review: Hannibal (3×07) – “Digestivo”

Hannibal Lecter is a monster, no doubt about it, but he’s also a charming monster with a refined culinary taste. All Lecter adaptations have toed the line between Hannibal-as-villain and Hannibal-as-antihero, presenting him as the most calculatingly manipulative and cunning…

TV Review: Hannibal (3×05) – “Contorno”

Around the midway point of “Contorno,” Chiyoh compares her state of being to taxidermy; she still looks like herself but feels like something was taken from her, as if her soul was hollowed out. She may still be walking and…

TV Review: Hannibal (3×04) – “Aperitivo”

Scars of all types have been a recurring theme of exploration for this early run of Hannibal season three. While “Primavera” took a scalpel (figuratively speaking) to Will’s head space as he dealt with the mental trauma of losing Abigail…

TV Review: Hannibal (3×03) – “Secondo”

The bromance between Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter has been a fascinatingly hazy one to say the least. They don’t generally act like warm and caring friends, and yet they understand each other to such a calculatingly obsessive degree that…

TV Review: “Hannibal” (3×02) – “Primavera”

Abigail Hobbs’ relationship with the sociopathic Dr. Hannibal Lecter is not all too dissimilar from what I suspect many viewers have with the show also named Hannibal. Last year’s season finale was particularly brutal and testing, not because it was…