This show is just so fucking
delicious.
- Watching Jack Crawford (the excellently cast Laurence Fishburne) struggle with his guilt of using female FBI trainee Miriam Lass (a cheekily cast Anna Chlumsky - see below) in the search for the Chesapeake Ripper and losing her - and knowing he will do it again with the emergence of Buffalo Bill is just a wonderful character set up and connection with the canon.
- Seeing showrunner Bryan Fuller and friends take the now grown-up protagonist of My Girl (Chlumsky) and... urgh. Oh dear. Who said Americans can't do black humour?
- The more I see of Mad Mikkelsen's Hannibal Lecter, the less I see of Anthony Hopkins Oscar-winning turn (particularly his time with Ridley Scott) - and the closer and more faithful Lecter is to author Thomas Harris' original creation.
- Six eps worth of accumulated Cooking With Hannibal scenes - and knowing where the meat comes from - somehow resulted in me salivating during the seventh ep's meal preparation finale. Thanks Mr Fuller!
- And Gillian Anderson has joined the show as Hannibal's supervisor.
Hannibal is just goddamned awesome. And it's been renewed for a second season.
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