Friday, 26 April 2013
"Hannibal" : 3 Episode Review
"Hannibal", the latest in a long line of media offering based on the "Hannibal Lecter" character from the book "Red Dragon" by Thomas Harris. From creator Bryan Fuller, who created such series as "Dead Like Me", "Wonderfalls" and "Pushing Daisies".
This series is a myriad of many other shows out right now, its like a combination of "Sherlock + Criminal Minds + Perception ". It takes from "Sherlock" the way the central character Will Graham, (special consultant for the F.B.I.)visualizes a crime scene, by imagining the way the killer operated and committed a crime. A branch of the F.B.I, whose purpose is to solve gruesome cases and crimes, this is an element it takes from "Criminal Minds". By having the main character Will Graham as a professor in a college who's called by the F.B.I to help solve crimes is an aspect of "Perception". And seeing as both characters from the 2 series are flawed, anti-social, troubled and having a hard time differentiating reality from illusions sometimes, you can see similarities between the two characters.
In all, this is a good series, that has more of a psychological theme to it than an investigative one. It doesn't deal with following and solving clues, using technology to look at suspect's history, trimming them down to the last logical ones.
This explores the dark side of "why psychopaths kill and do what they do", doesn't give simple explanations of being raised up in broken homes, sexually or physically assaulted as a child, that all new and conventional detective shows do nowadays.
Meanwhile we see very little of "Hannibal Lecter" (played by Mads Mikkelsen) in the first 3 episodes, in the 1st episode we are introduced to him when "Jack Crawford" (played by Laurence Fishburne) invites him to join in the investigation of a serial killer, who had already killed 7 young women. And to help F.B.I consultant "Will Graham" (wonderfully played by Hugh Dancy) to catch the killer. We see little of Hannibal in the 2nd episode but we see more of him in the 3rd episode
As he's called to help diagnose a victim/suspect.
The fact that the series first 3 episodes don't run as stand-alone episodes and bring back themes and elements from previous ones, let the show flow on and gives a slow progression on the psyche of "Will Graham".
Based on the 3 episode so far, I would gladly watch the remaining 10 episodes of the series for this season (episode 4 has being pulled from airing, based on the theme of the crime and the aftermath of the Boston bombing).
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