Hannibal (TV Series) Savoureux (2013) User Reviews

Tasty!

[A_Voice · 10/10 · 3 January 2014]

Finally Will catches up and is able to deduce the vision of an antler deer he always has. The deer is none other than Dr. Hannibal Lector, his friend and psychiatrist whom he never suspected.

When Will finds himself framed for the murders committed by Dr. Lector, he makes one last attempt to solve the mystery of Abigail's supposed murder and goes to Minnesota while being on the run from FBI.

A brilliantly constructed season finale which will definitely leave the viewer hungry for more! It has some breathtaking sequences which reach up to the cinematic height of an artful film, like the depiction of Jack shooting Will and Graham's, reality cum hallucination. The episode begins with a perfectly edited awesome dream like hallucination but reality sequence followed by a confused Graham and some great music! this is also accompanied by some artistic cinematography.

It leaves us waiting for the second season to know the fate of Will Graham and Dr. Lector. It will be interesting to see if Dr. Lector killed Abigail or Will killed her? Even though it is obvious as to who the culprit might be, it will be interesting to see how Abigail's ear got into Will's mouth. The scratches on his arm were probably made in the cabin when he hallucinated of killing her. I wonder if Lector has kept Abigail alive? It seems highly unlikely, but you never know. It was a surprise to see Hannibal crying and expressing grief which was probably a fake. I wonder if the patient who attacked Anderson was Hannibal himself? A fitting and evil smile by Dr. Lector marks the end of the 1st season of this gory but elegant series. A smile which was missing from about 13 episodes, is finally here.

Direction: Great.

Story/Screenplay: Strong. A well constructed and artistic script.

Acting: Mads and Dancy were great. Caroline Dhavernas was impressive.\\ Music: Excellent.

Overall a great finale, providing an excellent build up for the season to come.

A wickedly fitting finale to a promising new TV series

[mfaizantarique · 10/10 · 25 June 2013]

The much anticipated last episode of NBC's pleasantly dark and notoriously murderous TV series "Hannibal" proved to be the last piece of jigsaw puzzle of psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter's plot against Special Agent Will Graham, in case he came closer to revealing the real murderous and sadist face of the psychiatrist as he turns Will's most sincere friends Jack Crawford and Dr. Alana Bloom against him. It ties loses ends of the entire series and explains some previously unexplained acts done by Dr. Lecter in previous episodes.

The episode starts with Will Graham (played by Hugh Dancy) having a hallucination about hunting a deer (the deer is shown as an analogy to Garrett Jacob Hobbs, the Minnesota Shrike throughout the series) and finding a Satanic creature having antlers at his head. He wakes up and finds Abigail Hobbs's ear is his mouth and her blood under his nails. He is, then, arrested by the FBI because of irrefutable evidence against him. Will somehow manages to escape. In order to scrutinize the crime scene of Abigail, he goes to her home with Dr. Lecter, where Will had shot her father, Garrett Jacob Hobbs. In the house, Will finally realizes that Dr. Lecter was the Chesapeake Ripper and also the killer of Abigail. But he was arrested there by Jack Crawford as he was about to shoot Hannibal. The finale finished with Will behind the bars in the "Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane" and Dr. Hannibal Lecter coming to meet him there.

The episode has many great artistic scenes like when Will goes back to Garrett Jacob Hobbs's home and have flash backs which makes him release the true face of Dr. Lecter and also the scene in which Jack Crawford shoots Will Graham to save Hannibal and Will falls in the same place and in the same manner as Garrett Jacob Hobbs had fallen and says "See?...You see?" to Jack Crawford and finds that the satanic person he had seen in his dream was Hannibal. The episode also contains a rare scene of the season in which Dr. Lecter is shown to be weeping. Whether it was because of murder of Abigail, losing his-close-to-friend Will Graham or to miss lead others, it is up to the viewers to decide.

The season started at a high pace and ended with even more thrilling momentum. The season has provided us more than we had expected. Lets see whether it will be able to surprise its viewers or not next year when Dr. Hannibal Lecter returns next year and starts "treating" Will Graham.

Season 1

[shanekraus · 8/10 · 20 June 2022]

The first season of Hannibal is very strong. The show is amazing. It has great dialogue, and cinematography. The only show to rival Hannibal is DARK. This is a great dark show.

Hello Will. Hello Doctor Lecter.

[wandernn1-81-683274 · 10/10 · 2 August 2020]

Okay so here we go with Will in the woods, he's hunting. A lot like Elmer Fudd in the old Bugs Bunny cartoons. Okay maybe not.

+1 Star for the Graham / Stag sound effect they use. Adds a level of creepiness with that whirring noise.

Will is more and more having problems figuring out if he's dreaming and asleep, or is he awake.

And then....all hell breaks loose!!!

+1 Star for all hell !!!

Lecter again meeting with Dr. Maurier about Graham's latest bad luck, along with Abigail Hobbs.

+1 Star for how good Graham looks in his orange jumpsuit!!!! Hahahaha

Graham apparently doesn't like being held captive and he BUCKS the system!

A very very entertaining climax of the story or at least episode is reached near the end, with Lecter, Crawford , and Graham.

+1 Star for the confrontation !!!

And then silly Du Maurier she goes over to Lecters house for Dinner after all of this??? Oh dear Lawd what's gonna happen????

And then at the very end of the Season, a beautifully scored final? scene between Will and Hannibal??

+1 Star for this and a perfect ending to Season 1 !! 10/10

Season One

[zkonedog · 8/10 · 3 July 2019]

Hannibal Lector is one of the most intriguing characters in the history of cinematic fiction. That being said, I was skeptical of this show (in fact, not watching it until a family member literally pleaded with me to do so) because I didn't know if anything could top Anthony Hopkins' portrayal of the character. What I found, however, is that this show (while bearing Dr. Lecter's name) is about so much more than the smooth, cultured (yet brilliantly unstable) "good doctor" himself.

For a basic plot summary (some spoilers), "Hannibal" (at least in this first season) centers on Will Graham (Hugh Dancy), an FBI investigator with a rather erratic talent: that of being able to re-create any crime scene in his mind, with himself walking through the role of the killer. Will is deployed to the stranger, more violent FBI cases by Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne), a senior agent despite the persistent warnings of fellow agent Dr. Alana Bloom (Caroline Dhavernas), who believe that Will might not be emotionally stable enough to continue diagnosing violent crimes. Early on in the season, Graham is forced to take the life of serial murderer Garret Jacob Hobbs (Vladimir Jon Cubrt) in order to save Hobbs' daughter Abigail (Kacey Rohl). This acts haunts Will to the point of him being referred to the best psychiatrist around...Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen).

The show starts off a bit on the slow side. For the first 5-6 episodes, it seems like a similar pattern plays out in each one...Graham diagnoses, Jack/Alana worry, Hannibal plays the doctor role while harboring a dark secret that includes a penchant for serving some very "mystery meat" to dinner guests. Whether this slow pace was done to ground the shore or to rope in a "procedural audience" (it is a network show), the fact remains that halfway through the season the show is still just "intriguing"...nothing more...and in danger of becoming rote.

Luckily, the heat gets turned about around midseason and each episode gets better and better until the explosive finale that will be quite a twist for "Silence of the Lambs" fans. Each of these episodes brims with tension and are not as "procedural" as the early goings. Bryan Fuller (show creator) has a great sense of drama and knows exactly how to drive viewers crazy by giving us all the answers, yet not letting the characters on the show find them out as quickly.

"Hannibal" is also distinctive in how "artfully violent" it is. A strange description, but an apt one. There are large amounts of blood in each episode, and the killings are quite gruesome-looking (in an artistic sort of way). Not for the squeamish, that is for sure. I hate to call the show "violent", however, as it is no worse than, say, "Breaking Bad" in terms of dark themes. It's just that "Hannibal" revels in an almost opera-like sense of murder and disfiguration.

Overall, I enjoyed this initial campaign and am very excited to see what the next season has in store for me. Once I got past the early episodes (the only reason for a four-star rating instead of five), the show turned dynamic and really sank its grips into me. The character development is superb, the drama is palpable, and the acting is top-shelf. If you enjoyed "Silence of the Lambs" and/or "Red Dragon", you need to at least give this season (and the ENTIRE season, at that) a chance.

I Scattered Them

[jamesclaytonbodily · 10/10 · 16 February 2024]

"I know who I am. But I am not so sure that I know who you are anymore."

Fantastic ending to a fantastic season. The culmination of 13 episodes of intrigue and deceit and Mads Mikkelsen is all perfectly encapsulated within the episode's final five words.

"Hello, Will." "Hello, Dr. Lecter."

It's perfect. The cinematography, the music, the acting, the dialogue. Oh, the dialogue. Every line feels so perfectly crafted, like this: "I stared at Hobbs and the space opposite me assumed the shape of a man filled with dark and swarming flies." It's poetry! Every line of every scene (of every episode of the season) is beautiful writing.

The characters all feel so real. You care about all of 'em, and dislike none of them (you even almost find yourself excusing Dr. Lecter's unsavory habbit, or at least ignoring it), as you watch each of them follow their own motivations that make sense, not just make actions to move the plot forward.

10/10, beautiful episode.

Amazing finale!

[and_mikkelsen · 10/10 · 17 April 2024]

This was a shocking and eventfull finale that both felt like the thing it was all building towards, while still took me by surprise, where I had no idea what was going on, but that the consequences would be felt!

This was the culmination of Will's unstable mind and Hannibal pulling the strings! Hannibal managed to cerment himself as a highly intelligent character! It feels like everything happened the way he planned it! He got all the information about the case, and acted acordingly!

The finale scene was perhaps the best of the entire episode, promissing an intense and thrilling second season!

Very Good Episode to End the Season [8.6/10]

[panagiotis1993 · 9/10 · 15 August 2023]

My Reaction / Review for Hannibal Season 1 Episode 13: Episode 12 was great and I gave it a rating of 9/10. So did Hannibal kill Abigail? So they arrest Will? That sucks. Im sure Hannibal killed Abigail and now he framed Will for her murder. I feel bad for Will, he doesn't even know about his illness and is about to go to prison for a crime he didn't do, very tragic. I think the fact that Hannibal framed Will makes him experience some form of regret, maybe after all he thought of Will as his friend. Maybe after all Hannibal is not an absolute psychopath, maybe. What is going on? Now they think that Will is a serial killer? That's nonsense. Wow Will now knows that Hannibal framed him and that he killed Abigail? Overall a very intense episode with a great ending. My rating is 8.6/10.

Will In Jail

[ZegMaarJus · 9/10 · 27 February 2023]

This Episode begins with Will, he is walking in the woods with a sniper in his hand. Will got arrested by the cops, they think that he killed Abigail in Minnesota. Alana speaks with Will, it is a very emotional conversation between them. Will is going to be placed in a medical ward. Jack has arrested will for multiple murder. Will escaped. Will hides himself at Hannibal his office. Hannibal and Will arrived in Minnesota, where Abigail was killed. Will knows that Hannibal called Garret the day he killed him. Jack shot down Will. Hannibal eats his dinner at Bedelia's house. Hannibal visits Will in jail. Amazing Final Episode of Hannibal Season 1, a nice ending of a really great Season full of horror and exciting moments. On to the next one!