Hannibal (TV Series) ...And the Woman Clothed in Sun (2015) User Reviews

You Understand You're Not Allowed To Touch It. I Will Display It For You.

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 9/10 · 8 August 2020]

We begin here with Dolarhyde (D), working on his speech exercises. Obviously he is still quite concerned with his own ability to speak clearly.

Oh, they explain here now how D did get the phone call to Lecter through the system.

Wow. Dr. Du Maurier, giving a lecture on how she was 'swallowed by the beast', and became Lydia Fell. Graham is in attendance, and confronts her with his utter disbelief. Lovely performance by Gillian Anderson in this role. Such a departure from her other most popular roles.

Bedelia doesn't succumb to Graham's taunts and tells him to make an appointment. Hahaha.

+1 Star for Dr. Du Maurier.

D takes Reba on a 'date'. He takes her to an animal hospital to visit a Tiger, that is tranquilized and passed out on the vet table. What an amazing experience that would be for a person with sight. I can't even begin to imagine it myself. Reba sheds tears of amazement, joy, happiness, sadness?? from the experience.

+1 Star for that touching scene

Reba knows how to make martinis too! Blind or not she manages quite well. Reba is quite impressed with D, and his gestures of kindness towards her.

D and Reba bond the relationship! D begins to see Reba as some sort of Angelic Figure to his 'becoming'.

Another meeting with Graham and Du Maurier. I guess he made that appointment!!! Bedelia admits to Graham that she does 'obfuscate'. Haha, a complete spin around from her Scully role right?? Where obfuscation was the enemy???

+1 Star for the writers humorous take on that

We then get a mixed interview between Graham and Du. Maurier and another patient of hers, the new Mr. Spock!!!! Zachary Quinto. Oh my it's the replay of the patient that died under her care. That Lecter helped her to cover up.

+1 Star for this late reveal.

Graham connects the symbol he found on the tree outside the Leeds house to a mahjong tile. The symbol is for a red dragon. Graham is getting closer. Lecter admires the 'becoming' of this Dragon. Graham, views Lecter with what appears to be contempt.

Skip to D. He's visiting the museum to view the original water color of Blake's Red Dragon. The curator tells him of course he's not supposed to touch it. Whack to the neck and down she goes. D removes the fabulous Red Dragon from its protective cover, smells it, snuggles it, and then devours it.

Ruh Roh! Graham shows up at the same time to view the Dragon also!! Graham has a confrontation with D as he tries to escape the scene. He tosses Graham around like a rag doll but leaves Graham relatively unharmed. Graham has seen his quarry now!!!

+1 Star for the museum ending / Red Dragon eating.

This episode finishes one of the better ones this season. 9/10

Eating The Drawing

[ZegMaarJus · 8/10 · 2 March 2023]

This Episode begins with Francis, he calls Hannibal for some advice. Francis tells to Hannibal that he is becoming The Great Red Dragon. Bedelia tells her story about Hannibal. Reba has sex with Francis. Hannibal calls to find out where Will his family lives. Will talks with Bedelia about her lies trough the years. Will has a 'therapy session' at Bedelia. Neal died during Bedelia her therapy session in the past. Will asks Hannibal for advice in the Red Dragon case. Francis eats the Red Dragon drawing. Francis fights with Will. Francis got away. Nice Episode of Hannibal Season 3, a great one. This Season is the level of Season 1.

Consuming the Great Red Dragon [8.5/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 8/10 · 22 August 2023]

My Reaction / Review for Hannibal Season 3 Episode 10: Episode 9 was great and I gave it a rating of 8/10. Francis is a huge Hannibal fanboy. Something about a blind person touching and feeling the tiger is fascinating. And Francis and Reba kiss, I feel bad for her, if she only knew what kind of monster is infront of her. Francis can be romantic and loving it seems, but this relationship is doomed. I like that this episode's first half is mostly about Francis, this actually made his character more interesting because in previous episodes I wasnt really impressed. The character played by Zachary Quinto is the patient that Bedelia murdered? Im confused. Bedelia is disturbed just like Hannibal, imagine having her as your psychiatrist, big no. Oh boy Francis is eating the Red Dragon painting, kind of disturbing and funny at the same time. Damn, Francis is strong. Overall the episode is pretty good. My rating is 8.5/10.

Learn from this show

[onion_bums · 10/10 · 10 August 2015]

Other shows which depict psychopaths and serial killers should learn from this show how to delve into the abyss of human psychology. The Red Dragon is the best psychopath (other than Hannibal) I have ever seen. Characters like Dexter Morgan don't even come near to him.

Such an artistic expression of beauty and aesthetic is rare. The progress of plot was negligible in the first 40 minutes of the show until Will Graham ran into Francis Dolarhyde at the Brooklyn Museum. The episode ended with a tense cliffhanger which is kind of a new thing on the show.

One negative thing about this episode was that Hannibal Lecter got really less screen time.

Arguably Hannibal's best writing to date; a stunning piece of television

[ryanjmorris · 10/10 · 3 September 2015]

Wow. What a stunning episode of television.

Hannibal deals with human psychology in ways that no other show even comes close to, and with the characters this show has on offer that's all it needs to place it head and shoulders above anything else currently on air. For the first time in the show's run, we're treated to two psychopathic serial killers and the show has managed to define them fantastically well, allowing us to understand their similarities without them feeling too identical. Hannibal Lecter and Francis Dolarhyde have similarities, sure, but they are very different people, and, in that, very different psychopaths. And the Woman Clothed in Sun opens with Dolarhyde practicing his speech before phoning Lecter, and then ultimately visualising a psychiatric session between the two while Dolarhyde himself watches. It's a powerful sequence, and one that uses the Lecter's intellectual dialect to the scene's advantage, his use of long, intricate wording contrasts nicely with Dolarhyde's stuttering murmurs. But then the camera cuts back to Dolarhyde one more time and we see him in what he believes to be his truest form; as the office begins to glow orange, Dolarhyde transforms into the Great Red Dragon.

This episode also took great pride in representing Dolarhyde's psych in terms of sexuality. William Blake's original painting (entitled The Great Red Dragon and the Woman Clothed in Sun), shown at the top of this review, depicts the Red Dragon with the Woman Clothed in Sun tangled in his tail as he treats her as his sexual conquest. This episode did a terrific job of reflecting this in Dolarhyde's moments of screen time this week, as he grows closer to Reba McClane by taking her to feel and touch a sleeping tiger (one of the most visually stunning sequences this show has ever offered) we begin to watch his mentality towards what he does unfold. After they have a sexual encounter that night, Dolarhyde has a hallucination the next morning and is made to believe that McClane should be his next villain. But he breaks away from this by simply taking her home and, presumably, leaving her unharmed. Armitage sold his performance as the Dragon to me last week; here he took it to another level.

Where this episode, so similarly titled to last week's, improves so much on its previous installment is in its pacing and structure. Whilst last week's episode fell victim to a predictable narrative structure and too many characters to fill in, And the Woman Clothed in Sun brought Hannibal back to its wildly unpredictable roots, particularly in its final sequence in which a rather quiet, dialogue driven episode suddenly became very loud and very very fast. But the fantastic unpredictability of this episode was best demonstrated in Will's psychiatry session with Bedelia, which suddenly cuts back in time to that session Bedelia had with that patient all those years ago. We learn that her patient never attacked her, and that he was not killed by her in self defence, but rather he swallowed his own tongue after he accused Hannibal of worsening his psychological condition. The intercutting back and forth between the two sessions was seamlessly edited, and showed more than ever how well written this show is. Some dismiss Hannibal's writing as pretentious, but to me it is bloody genius.

This was the best episode of the show since it used its seventh as a sort of mid-season finale. Hannibal has never really put out a bad episode, but it is almost always at its best when it focuses on dialogue and has a central theme running at its core. This episode ten focused heavily on the idea of duality and human perception; the fact that people can be perceived differently to how they perceive themselves. Dolarhyde perceives himself as a deformed monster, yet Reba tells him his colleagues believe his self-consciousness is unwarranted. Bedelia has always been perceived by others as a damsel in distress, yet she perceives herself as someone who is strong enough to stand alone. Hannibal is perceived by others as an inhumane monster, yet he knows unquestionably that he wouldn't dare ever be seen as rude. Hannibal has spoken of these themes before but never in such psychological depth as it did in this episode. If the three following, and final, episodes are anywhere even near this standard, I'm going to be an emotional wreck when we bid farewell to this show for the last time.

...Yet More Nonsensical Dialogue

[nebohr · 4/10 · 28 September 2020]

I can't fathom the meanings behind the disjointed, rambling verbal sparring. I shall eat some artwork and remain silent.

Bedelia is back

[gedikreverdi · 7 September 2021]

Bedelia who lived in Florence with Hannibal is back. The red dragon took the photographer to a zoo so that she could touch a tiger. She's mesmerized by the tiger. They made love and I hope he won't ever hurt this beautiful woman (I watched Red Dragon a very long time ago so I don't remember what happened). And he lives in such a big and beautiful house. Zachary Quinto is one of the patients of Hannibal whom he abused. Bedelia killed him while he was choking after complaining about Hannibal being twisted.

Will took the symbol carved on the tree by the red dragon to Hannibal.

The red dragon went to see the original painting of William Blake. And right after that Will came, too. They ran into each other after the red dragon ate the original painting but he managed to run away.