No offense to Anthony Hopkins but for me, Madds' portrayal is the definitive depiction of Hannibal. He has all the qualities that the books described him as having. He's exactly the way that Thomas Harris imagined him as being in his prime. A highly intelligent and sophisticated apex predator.

you forgot to mention how Mads Mikkelsen is gorgeous and his pretty privilege can win over anyone (me)

This show shattered my grandma's homophobia. Had her yelling at the screen for Will and Hannibal to kiss lol

People always focused on how Hannibal was the one who was to be understood. Will was the only one who could understand Hannibal because he had empathy for him. But the even bigger point is Hannibal managed to stablize Will. Jack tried Alana tried but they couldnt. It's fair to say the only person who could understand Will Graham, was Hannibal. This therefore would mean that Hannibal felt empathy towards Will, something he was incapable towards the rest of the universe. A point well missed. They both exchanged their most prominant characteristics. Stability and Empathy. They both started mirroring each other.

"He's not a classic psychopath or a classic serial killer. I think he's as close to Satan as possible: the fallen angel. He sees the beauty in death. And every day is a new day, full of opportunity."

Thinking of Hannibal as a devil that’s mischievous and a trickster, it becomes easier to see why Hannibal almost sees Will as a God. A God he feels he can easily take down of course. Will has a moral code that Hannibal constantly scoffs at and the more he assumed Hannibal’s point of view, the more ‘wrathful’ he becomes. His morality becomes more and more contradictory as the series continues which is heavily in line with what Hannibal envisions God would be like. And when Will has those moments of lucidity, he surprises Hannibal in ways the man hadn’t considered. That combined with the fact that Hannibal is insanely lonely, and his placement of Will on an easily dismantled pedestal makes sense.

"No one can be fully aware of another human being unless we love them. By that love, we see potential in our beloved. Through that love, we allow our beloved to see their potential."

The appeal of a self-confident narcissist is indescribable for someone with an overabundance of self-conscious empathy, and the depth of pain such a toxic relationship can bring is nearly endless. This show portrays such a downward spiral beautifully.

I really appreciate how the show explains why so many moral foundations aren’t nearly as sturdy as people tend to think. Hannibal is truly monstrous but not just because he’s a killer but because he tears Will mentally and emotionally apart to put him back together to suit himself. But he is only able to do this because Will has so little sense of self and his morality is so black and white. Hannibal looks like a genius because he is in control of everything and reshapes the world around himself instead of learning to function with the world. He thinks he knows himself because he forces the environments he’s in to bend. And because his gospel proves true (by his design) everyone falls for his tricks. People like Jack, who know themselves and foster lives outside of themselves are safe from manipulation like Hannibal’s.

And there are those most wonderful moments (perhaps not mentioned?) that Hannibal does something simply because "I was curious to find out what would happen". Some of his horrors are not immoral but amoral; possibly because he's a psychiatrist, he's happy to think of it as an experiment; though he's not really all that bothered in a scientific sense. He's not going to publish a paper on it for peer review, put it that way.... I must say I've never seen or listened to a more intelligently written television programme ever (er, I'm 59). And the design matched it. Mads' acting didn't let it down, because he knew he didn't have to do much 'acting' otherwise it would have spoiled it all, made it too hokum and silly. Hannibal shrugs, and Mads shrugs. A very terrific production and anyone connected to it should be quietly proud.

I’ve always said that this show is more terrifying on a psychological level than anything you see on screen. And you see some stuff. This was my gateway into horror and I still remember watching the first five episodes in a row before realising the time and going straight to bed. I was just lying there trying to process everything I’d just watched and the fact that I enjoyed it. This is still hands down one of my favourite series and I always find myself coming back to it.

I like the way he tests other people to reveal whether they are aware of him or not. When he plans something, everything is so calculated and clean no one will even suspect that he's the one who did it. If ever they do, he can cover it up easily.

After many years I finally watched Hannibal while laid up in bed sick with covid. A literal fevered dream. I even remembered googling is cannibalism wrong? 😅 This show doesn't need a fourth season. Cause it's already a masterpiece.

Hannibal, the character, presents Will and the audience with an alternative moral and philosophical perspective. The first aspect of this is that life and death are not the most important things on which to gauge morality. Lives are fleeting and those that live their lives poorly are hardly living. In Hannibal's view, beauty, art, and good character are the most important things; life and death can and should be used to create them. Music, food, and death are the main ways Hannibal seeks to create art, and Hannibal sees it as almost a moral obligation to transform things that are immoral in his world view into art to create meaning from them. We see him create music to transform his traumatic experiences into art, we see him cannibalise those he deems immoral to transform them into art as food and in the sensations of taste they create, and he kills those he dislikes in gruesome ways to transform them into something beautifully morbid and to critique who they were in life. It's implied in the show that the rolodex of business cards he keeps is of people he's met that he views as immoral, meaning they are rude or prioritising things in life that Hannibal views as in opposition to art. In Hannibal's world, he is ridding the world of evil and transforming it into good. Him killing and cannibalising could be likened to someone helping a murderer reform and become compassionate in conventional ethics. His carefully constructed environment and presentation is all in service of create as much art in every aspect of his life, and it could be likened to giving all your time and money to charity in conventional ethics. Hannibal's moral view is one that prioritises artistry over all else, whereas the Judeo-Christian God could be viewed as having a moral view that prioritises faith, or something, over all else. In this way, Hannibal views himself as a peer to God, seeing them both having the same perspective but with different priorities. Hannibal seems to acknowledge a belief in God, but does not seek approval or favour because what God wants is not what Hannibal wants. Ultimately, this god complex of Hannibal's causes him to feel incredibly isolated, which is why he takes such interest in Will, seeking to remould him into Hannibal's own image so that he has someone who understands him and agrees with him. The show is about Hannibal employing various manipulations and psychological tactics to get Will to listen, and then persuade him that Hannibal's morality is correct. The viewer is there, having Hannibal trying to persuade us as well.

Talking about Will Graham, in my opinion, many people underestimate just what easy a target he was for Hannibal. Everyone says that Hannibal pushed everyone out of his life and I strongly disagree. There wasn't anyone to truly get rid of. Nobody, but his dogs care about Will as for a human being that he is. In everyone's eyes he is just an addition to his mental abilities. As Jack once told him, shake it off and work. And Will is a type of a person that actually needs people and needs to feel cared for, but would never show or ask. If only he met someone like Molly circa s1, then, frankly, Hannibal would be quite powerless. Alas, when it happened, it was much too late. After everything, Will learned not to believe anyone's promises of loyalty and protection and made sure to protect his loved without empty promises. That's why he left everything behind. S3 Will is not that different from S1, in all honesty. He just lost his faith in an antagonising manner and chose to lose his soul in order to save more. He gave himself in his entirety away to the monster just as martyrs and sacrifices are akin to brides of the deities. There are multiple tragedies in the show. There's noone entirely morally in the right. That's the brilliance of the show for me, being a gothic romance at it's core, it manages to rise a plethora of questions, from petty and mundane issues to larger than life existential conundrums. What is evil? At what level of malicious intent it begins? At what scale it stops being evil? What should be punished? And how? What an amazing work. And I'm really glad that I refrained from watching it as a teen when it first came out, it would have been too easy to be charmed by the looks and the charm back then and look over the human tragedies underneath the field kabuki

To humanize doesn’t mean to create a forgivable character, rather to create an understandable character with fitting motivations. Hannibal is a human being, not a demon, he desires human things, but gets them in psychotic ways.

(One mild spoiler for the Crawfords story up ahead beware!) The author of the books, has said that Hannibal is based on an inmate who he met (however there is no real proof of this inmate existing if I’m not mistaken) I am constantly in awe of how people portray him, Anthony Hopkins version is uppity, willing to be seen as obscure and loud, playing up the villain we know him to be but he is still able to read you in a matter of seconds, Hopkins never lets the viewer forget how much more he knows than we do, Hopkins version of Hannibal is almost fun compared to Mads, Hopkins is vile and ruthless and vicious but still compassionate and even sort of loving towards Sterling as he makes the inmate Miggs that throws his semen at Sterling uh.., self murder because he finds it “unspeakably ugly” (there’s also a deleted scene in the silence of the lambs where Hopkins is speaking about buffalo bills childhood drawings and he actually tears up with empathy for bill describing how dreadful and upsetting bills childhood likely was) Hopkins playing Hannibal is almost playful and teasing compared to Mads playing Hannibal. Mads on the other hand is so, smooth? He never raises his voice, his violence is hardly shown, he KNOWS he is superior but he is amused by our funny little emotions and worry’s and he just loves to watch us fall apart and loves to watch and see what will happen wondering which one will be more traumatic, he literally flips a coin to make a choice as to whether or not to save Bella. Mads is still just as vicious and unhinged as Hopkins but it is significantly toned down, subtle but his rage is palatable(the best show of this for me is when Mason Verger STABS HANNIBALS CHAIR I nearly screamed, Hannibal does not react, his face does not change he does not move a muscle but the rage and pit of hell that is opening up is vibrating through the air and saturates the whole scene it becomes unhinged with Masons malicious laugh filling up the room, almost overstimulating, because Hannibal is just not reacting in a way that those of us who are not cannibals would) another thing that I just realized, sorry for the rambling! But the one link between both Mad and Hopkins in how they play Hannibal is how they do not jump to show anger, “the rare occurrence of the doctor anger” is loosely what is written about Hannibal in silence of the lambs when Miggs harasses Sterling and it’s blatantly obvious how Mads does not jump to anger, even in when the show is at its peak. One last thing about Hannibal in the show wanting to keep his sister somewhere he will always know where she is, where to find her, is exactly what he does when Will tells him “I don’t want to see you ever again, do not contact me leave me alone” his dramatic ass turns himself in “so you always know where I am” Sorry for the rambling, I can’t help myself when it comes to Hannibal (great work!)

It still kills me that we never got a season 4 to wrap everything up and adapt Silence Of The Lambs. It crushes my soul everyday.

Madds makes Anthony Hopkins look like a touchy uncle lol. Never thought Hannibal could be played better than Hopkins

"It’s one thing to witness evil but to understand evil requires one to gaze into the abyss, an it’s within that abyss that so apathetically gazes right back that one might find their own potential for evil" What a line!

Like a few comments mention, Hannibal had to eat Misha to survive, he didn’t have a hand in her death. If you read Hannibal rising or even watch the film they both show exactly what happened. It something that Hannibal fans don’t need to be told twice,, hence why it’s not in the nbc rendition. Because it doesn’t retell the story until we get to season 3 and even then it diverges from the books canon.

doctor lecter has me in a chokehold and i proudly state that. this is the best analysis I've seen too and it has me wanting to rewatch the show again

Hannibal is the perfect human apex predator: intelligent, socially adept, clarity of mind, singlarity of purpose and the ability to see you and understand you

I could rewatch this series 100 times and enjoy it more every time

Well, time for my yearly rewatch of this masterpiece

Loved this and wanted to posit a concept to you: I think there’s room for the confirmed romance as text in S3 between Hannibal and Will within your analysis. Namely that it’s true no one is safe from Hannibal, even those he loves. And something like romantic love is a concept he just has not encountered nor tenders different treatment in any way til shortly before getting shoved off a cliff with it. Because if he is alone, why would a need to entertain romantic love genuinely come about until he finds an equal? One he seems convinced doesn’t exist until Will exerts his… well will (lol) to the fullest extent over the course of many years. It’s a teaser into what could have been an amazing chapter of philosophical horror in s4 if it ever happened. Namely: how does love (something we could generously call the most human emotion) look under a lens of moral ambiguity and a blurred concept of capacity for evil? Do we allow evil to love? Does a capacity for love change how we view devastating scenarios or persons? And many more questions. The writers of Hannibal would have made a beautiful discussion of the concept for sure. And one that because of how intensely many (but not all, me being among them- hello fellow ace folks reading this comment) feel it within their lives, could have made for some lasting bone chilling moments of psychological horror. Alas, rip season 4. Really intriguing analysis and well done writing. Looking forward to watching your other videos. Cheers

I don't know about Anthony Hopkins (haven't seen his version of Hannibal yet) but Mads Mikkelsen portrayed the devilish nature of Hannibal Lecter perfectly. It is a textbook example of how people would define a manipulative person with a sort of god complex--but also this person isn't foolish because of his said god complex. The sadistic nature of Hannibal definitely makes a good antagonist but some moments in the series really made me sympathetic for him as well.

A suitably Nietzschean analysis of a Nietzschean character.

great analysis in some aspects, but the characterization feels kinda off considering hannibal isn’t actually unempathetic or incapable of regret, and thus is not a psychopath. Will also isn’t just some poor guy who got his empathy weaponized to the benefit of a cannibalistic serial killer. i think you’re giving hannibal wayyy too much credit lol. that narrative undermines a lot of depth in will’s character and their dynamic in general, as well as the rich, layered nature of the script. i also feel like surmounting the likability of hannibal and will as a unit to “hannibal manipulating the audience” erases how subversively this series depicts monstrosity and love and the romance in general! definitely an interesting perspective though, and a well made video

"A meal that never gets cold" - I love that pun!:)) One of the best analysis I've ever 'digested'. I like how this show attracts, connects and fascinates the smart people out there.

This is the best analysis I've ever seen of the show, using Hannibal's words to describe the feelings is just too good. I'm rewatching for the 4th time.

I'm doing a project for school based on this series and I stumbled over this analysis in the process of looking for inspiration, and honestly it's so good in such a short amount of time, I loved it

i have never had another experience like watching Hannibal. Everything is so perfect, art pure art. This is my favourite series

yeis true that in the end you wish that they would have escaped somehow but its also because after end credits there is scene with Bedelia with her leg cut off and served , so they were actually implying that they might have escaped somehow...but yep I get your point, I have said it before that I was disturbed how much Hannibals character charmed me :D and Mads Mikkelsen did amazing job, I think I like his version even more than Anthony Hopkins :)

Great Analysis! I knew how horrible Hannibal is but now after watching this I realize how much more terrifying (and a monster) he truly is. Maybe Will realized in the end that there was no going back for him and he decided to kill them both (down the cliff).

Hannbal y will tuvieron un final feliz, su propio final feliz. No creo que haya mejor final para la serie. Nadie podía entenderlos mejor que ellos mismos y sin duda nos resulta difícil comprender que lo que vivieron al final fue un objetivo desde el principio. Por cierto, me encanta la analogía constante del amor entre ellos dos, fue demasiado cautivador ver algo que saliera de las normas típicas del género de romance, un especial único y bizarro que solo ellos pueden compartir

He also has possibly the best drip in cinema history, those suits are absolutely gorgeous

Best video I saw on Hannibal's mind yet! Can't believe your channel is still so small with this amount of quality. I wish you all the best!

hannibal is by far my favourite show of all time and i love watching video essays of the show! thank u for this wonderful insight i loved every part of it :)

"It's only cannibalism if we're equals". There - Go to sleep on that.

Thank you. I never really bought the whole "oh, Hannigram, they're so cute"-thing. The guy's a total bastard who's constantly messing with Grahams head. I loved seeing Crawford kick Hannibal's smug ass.

this is a really good video, i think the only reason its not getting more attention is because the hannibal hype is kind of over, which is sad, cuz its a really good show

That was brilliant. I'd spend another hour listening to you dissecting Hannibal Lecter

I have watched many shows but this show remains on top for me. The writing and acting of each characters beautifully pans out blending with the atmosphere created. Also the cinematography of this show is very captivating and the philosophical aspect makes us crave for more of Dr Lecter!

Bryan Fuller never gets enough credit for his work. All of the actors are willing to come back to finish the Silence of the Lambs arc, which speaks volumes. When Fuller was fired from American Gods, Chenoweth and Anderson left out of loyalty to him (Gaiman had a hissy fit). Orlando Jones spoke, after being used and abused by Gaiman and Starz, about how lucky they were to have Fuller. A man who could write for ANY character, from any race, ethnicity, gender, etc. The first time we see Anansi is incredible, and it was Fuller who pushed for Jones to be hired for the character. I wish they’d bring Hannibal back.

I wouldn’t call Hannibal “impulsive”. He is opportunistically impulsive. Love the vid.

the story of hannibal as god shiva, and of the good he wants to wìill, even in its antichristic, cannibal and limitless essence, struck me, making me understand better, the relationship between satan and god, between good and maòle, between light of lucifer and light of the 'absent' god.

Will was "the lost bird in the cage" as Chiyoh, Badelia or Abigail and probably even Miriam. Hannibal collected strays the same way Will did, but with dogs; tho Will gave them what they needed while Hannibal was taking everything from them to see what would they do and for how long. Will was always unstable with people, he couldn't find connection, not even with his parents (all tho this could've been one of the reasons why he didn't appreciate the company of others for too long). He prefered being lonely and comfortable, without the eyes of others. He enjoyed teaching and helping in only way he could, but that drained him as well. It stressed him enough. Everyone saw it and ignored it, because he was "weird" but "helpful", still they didn't want to be a part of this; they weren't taking him seriously. Hannibal wasn't looking at him that way (like an unstable person), he gave him this comfort (the same way Red Dragon had comfort in Reba) or at least fake comofort, because it quickly attached Will to the only person in his life that actually tried to understand him as well. Not Alana. Nor Jack. Will wasn't stupid, that's the biggest thing, he was smart, well educated, understanding and really clever in most subjects. I'm pretty sure in S2 he understood what Hannibal was doing with him and why he shouldn't play this game, but that's amused him. The old life wasn't what he needed and after Hannibal liked him enough to let him see the real him, he tried to make Will understand that while pushing him to the edge. Will was a "good person" with empathy, he liked helping, but it wasn't stable and thrilling for him enough (mostly in S2). Most important the game started not becasue he couldn't go to other psychiatrist, but because Hannibal (maybe this time not even on purpouse), showed him how the only two people in his life left him without giving it a second thought (in cut scenes we saw encounter - Alana and Will, when he was running away from FBI. She batrayed him on the spot, that made Will lost all the left feelings for her). He understood that he would never find someone who trully wanted to put him first and always believe him. Not even Molly. She knew how bad it was for him, they talked, she knew he was the person that "didn't kill all those people" and ignored the past pushing him to make this decision. Most important she was a stray. Will didn't saw her as a family, becasue if he would, he would be looking for love before as well, but he didn't. He liked the comfort of one sided love, that he knew couldn't have happend. He went into Molly's and her son lives becasue it was a fever dream of a family, something he made from not himself but took from "street" (that's the first thing Hannibal noticed). He never called her anything more than a "wife" and "Molly" there were no feelings involved, I mean - love - he just took another stray to feel more "human". After 3 years when he saw Hannibal he understood there wasn't anything more to life he made up. It was heartbreaking, tiring and bitter for him, but well there he was - trying to accept it. The bird in the cage wasn't in the cage anymore, that was different from others, their cages was always open for them and they didn't want to fly away, Will closed that door becasue he wanted to stay. After all... he was like Hannibal, he knew it was manipulation, he chose to not do anything about it. To be manipulated you can't be aware of it - he was very aware. He wasn't lost anymore. I think their relationship is beautiful in many ways as vicious and ugly as well toxic it is.

Finally someone speak my mind! 2nd half of the second season was so, so good. I like to call it Hannibal and Will’s honeymoon phase, until Hanni learned he’s being played as well, ye he’s still very hopeful that Will was on his side. And characters like Randall Tier was so, so cool.

this is a fantastic analysis and i love how well you understand the show and especially Hannibal himself! Hannibal is horrible, he's the worst but i also want him to be my dad lol

My dumb ass calling Shiva Vishnu for some reason lmao

I think, the most shocking part about the show is that, on many occasions, especially when Hannibal is talking about God, I found myself agreeing to the things he says. When Hannibal discusses philosophy, you almost forget the fact that he's a literal serial killer. Because his attitude toward certain notions, especially religion, are very accurate. "Morality doesn't exist, only morale" and "He felt powerful" are some of the most impactful lines of dialogue I've ever heard, red or watched. Hannibal, to me at least, makes it seem as though we're not like him, for the sole reason that we're not good enough to live like that. Like we're not smart enough, sophisticated enough.

Among the biggest crimes in all of Television history is the fact that this show got cancelled.

Wonderful video. I try to re-watch Hannibal once a year and it always delivers.

Hannibal was just interested in his ability to think like a killer. Will has the mind with the capacity to kill but his empathy was the only thing that separated them. Hannibal just tried planting little seeds

Que achado maravilhoso foi esse vídeo. Sou uma fã de carteirinha de Hannibal e seu vídeo consegue ser tão maravilhoso quando a série. Hannibal é com toda a certeza uma série que vale a pena assistir mais de uma vez porque sempre deixamos coisas passar ao ficarmos abismados vendo a cinematografia dessa obra prima. A segunda vez sempre é a melhor. A profundidade, as representações, as questões levantadas, a cinematografia, tudo nessa série é perfeita. Mnnha esperança de ter uma 4 temporada nunca morrerá!

Absolutely amazing review of Hannibal! I feel like you really did hit the nail on the head. As an avid Hannibal fangirl, you blew me away :D Keep up the good work :) Cheers

I like how anothny Hopkins plays a more unstable Hannibal but I love how the directors remade it into a series and they could not have picked a better actor to play as Hannibal I cried while watching a movie Madz was in a dutch film called The Hunt it's about a teacher who is falsely accused of assaulting one of his students I highly recommend the movie but it touches some really deep topics about society and culture

Wow this is such a good video and a well done analysis. It’s not overdone and easy to follow and understand. This channel is totally gonna keep growing with videos like these. This is awesome!

Goddamn i want to watch this again

Creeped out? He actually makes cannibalism more attractive.

Utterly grief stricken again after re watching Hannibal The best series ive ever watched. Thank you for this analysis ❤

this is gonna be weird to say, but you sound like a young ron swanson

There are a couple of plot points you presented slightly inaccurately like, for example, Crawford bringing Will on to help catch The Chesapeake Ripper when actually it was to help catch Minnesota Shrike, who turned out to be Garret Jacob Hobbs. That said, your analysis of the characters and the overall themes of the show is spot on even with the minor goofs. Hannibal has been one of my all time fave series since it unfortunately ended, and it definitely deserves everything good coming its way.

Well done and thank you for producing such quality content. Continue the excellent work, I think you bring something wonderful to the table. 👍🏽💕

This was an excellent review of Hannibal! Really enjoyed this. I cant wait to see what you do next. :D

really great analysis. you definitely deserve more subscribers

Wow, this was a really good analysis. Well done!

I don't understand how there are still people who make a huge effort to close their eyes to Hannibal and Will's romantic love. The creator of the series didn't even need to give interviews about it, because this is explicit in the series. Repeated countless times throughout the series, especially season 3, which puts this into words at all times, not just symbolism. Did it really need a kiss for people to accept what they were seeing? Despite this, their relationship isn't even that platonic, as there is a lot of physical contact and the show plays with the two's metaphors and erotic suggestions all the time!

Hannibal’s main drive to eating people is culture, cooth and manners. That’s why he can turn on a person he seemed to be getting along with one moment and eating them the next. As long as you’re adhering to his ideas of those aforementioned things, That only HE knows. You’re safe. And the moment you cross the line of one of those, that’s when he eats you.

Hannibal on the show is definitely presenting as Lucifer on Paradise Lost , we know he’s the devil by previous representation but he’s shown in a new light where we can see things from his perspective or have Empathy for the Devil

I love your passion for this characterization of Hannibal. Hopefully I get to enjoy the show soon

This video is golden, great job!

A brilliant analysis, thank you!

Wow! You've done a really good review. I really loved the show too and thought the writing was splendid! With alot of badly written movies and shows that like to hold the viewers hand and dumb down the plots, I think Hannibal was something really special and refreshing. I'm also rooting for a continuation of the show. Who knows...maybe the new Fantastic Beasts movie with Mads in the leading role might bring in a new audience to Hannibal. I think it's a possibility since people have their eye mostly on him for the new movie.

The stagman actually looks a lot like The Beast from over the garden wall, just something cool I noticed

Hannibal successfully entered my mind.

hannibal wants to make will his equal because he loves him and he can only do that if theu become partners in crime

Mischa was murdered by pirates (explained in the books) after they captured Hannibal and Mischa in their escape from their home at the time. However, the pirates forced Hannibal to eat Mischa as they too were cannibals, but wanted to force Hannibal into it. It’s implied by the presence of the captive, Hannibal tracked the group of pirates, killed them all except one, which he kept captured in Chiyho’s care. Mischa was the first person Hannibal ate.

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This was brilliant! Unbelievably brilliant.

Thank you so much for the analysis. I watched the show ten times in 2020.

This is amazing analyses. Time for another watch.

I still think that Hannibal in the series is a supernatural entity, solely due to how he is able to work as a top class socialite, craft such massive feasts for the upper class, full time job as a psychiatrist, and fully stalk and hunt people. WHERE DOES HE HAVE ALL THE TIME?!

The series is so underappreciated. I think it deserves to be up there with the greats. The storytelling is perfect.

incredibly well-made video

such a brilliant analysis

the false murders, as in the case of abigail, would make us think of a positive figure, to follow, of hanibal, while he remains a murderous criminal, yet his intelligence and refinement, make him access and fall in love with him. the final scene of the third season, with that final music, show hannibal as a good father, our best friend. and the thing is dangerous, for weak minds ...

Fantastic analysis, it made realize how absolutely scary hannibal is

you ate with that ending, left me mounth dropped

i disagree on a handful of your finer points but still this is an amazing break-down of not only hannibal's character but also how it works in the context of the larger components of the show & horror genre. really good vid i enjoyed it!!

Watch Hannibal Rising, it explains his backstory and his sister. Wonderful movie; disturbing, but wonderful.

Fun fact: most of the dark scenes were set because of budget cuts. They said it in the post mortem of the series.

Evil must be beautiful.. otherwise nobody would fall for it

Cheer~~detailed examination of the elements or structure of something.

Magnificent work!

absolutely top shelf writing.

First watch of hannibal (will's pov): this is a psychological crime drama thriller Second watch of hannibal (hannibal's pov): this is a romcom

Freaking loved him and Casino Royale. Loved everything hes done since.

Hannibal is a superior human being.