TV-14, 13 45-min. episodes
Creator: Bryan Fuller
Directors: Tim Hunter, Peter
Medak, David Semel, Michael Rymer, Vincenzo Natali, David Slade
Writers: Bryan Fuller,
Thomas Harris (characters from novel “Red Dragon”), Steve Lightfoot, Jeff
Vlaming, Jason Grote, Scott Nimerfro, Ayanna A. Floyd, Andy Black, Kai Yu Wu,
Chris Brancato
Starring: Hugh Dancy, Mad
Mikkelsen, Lawrence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Hettienne Park, Scott
Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Raúl Esparza
Guest starring: Gillian
Anderson, Cynthia Nixon, Jonathan Tucker, Martin Donovan, Patrick Garrow, Lara
Jean Chorostecki, Maria Del Mar, Shawn Doyle, Eddie Izzard, Gina Torres, Kacey
Rohl, Amanda Plummer, Anna Chlumsky, Ted Ludzik, Katharine Isabelle, Jeremy
Davies, Chris Diamantopoulis, Mark O’Brien, Michael Pitt, Daniel Kash
There was a point about
halfway through the second season when I though this series had finally run
itself off the rails. It has always skirted on the precipice of going too far
off the deep dark end. I’m sure there are some who feel that it started that
way. However, the writing has always been incredible on this series. It is
about the best written American television show out there. So how was it
possible that things could go so wrong with the writing starting with S2E9 “Siizakana”?
I couldn’t have been more
wrong, but it takes several episodes for things to progress far enough for the
writers to reveal what they were really up to, which was actually quite
ingeniously spelled out in the cold intro to that very episode where things
started to seem wrong. I am uncomfortable with how the season leaves things,
but I’ve finally learned by this point that making me uncomfortable is one of
the greatest elements of this series and I don’t need to worry about the
writing. It will play out as one of the best-written shows no matter what
happens or how uncomfortable those events make me feel. What Bryan Fuller and
his staff of writers are doing is taking one of the greatest movie monsters ever
created and somehow twisting him into a darker and more fully formed monster
than anyone, including Hannibal’s creator novelist Thomas Harris, could’ve ever
imagined. Into this twisted darkness Fuller also pulls Will Graham and the
entire FBI team chasing Hannibal down into the muck with him. It’s fascinating.
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