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Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 8:21 am
by HM
DAT opening
Has the evidence of Will's brain scan from last season just been dropped? No investigation into that at all? When it's the most damning evidence of Hannibal?
When's this back on in the UK btw?
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 9:31 am
by Xeno
That was worth the wait.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:51 am
by FlippinChicken
Thoroughly enjoyed that
"I never regret eating anything"
Bit of a slow burner, but I like that they gave us that holy strawberry float opening and then calmed it down a little bit to place all the characters where they need to be.
On the brain scan evidence, who knows? I got the impression they could have figured the brain scan done by Hannibal and that doctor who ended up getting strawberry floated up by Hannibal was clean, and his encephalitis came on very quickly just after that?
I'd imagine that'll be part of the realisation for the FBI team - when
exactly did Will get ill if that was the reason for the murders? At which point they'll hopefully start to realise the truth. How that truth will come out will be interesting though - I'm not sure Hannibal is one to make a glaring DNA mistake.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:58 am
by HM
Another thing am I the only one that wonders what part of the human body hannibal is using when it shows you his meals?
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:03 am
by Memento Mori
I think most of the kaiseki was what he said it was, maybe not the sashimi.
That was definitely sea urchin though.
Great first ep.
chalkitdown wrote:Was Cynthia Nixon's neck always that long?
That's all I could keep thinking about while she was on screen.
Yeah that was distracting.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:15 am
by zXe
I thought the opening was a little over the top, they were fighting like they were in some martial arts movie - It was entertaining though but I found it slightly unbelievable.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 2:37 pm
by FlippinChicken
zXe wrote:I thought the opening was a little over the top, they were fighting like they were in some martial arts movie - It was entertaining though but I found it slightly unbelievable.
The whole feeling of the show is that it is just a little beyond the realm of the real though, so I thought that was okay. The gore is always stylised, the Twin Peaks-y shots etc tend to ground it in a kind of non-reality, so Hannibal throwing down with martial arts was okay I think.
It was a seriously entertaining throwdown though
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 6:17 pm
by zXe
Don't get me wrong I enjoyed it, it definitely had an element of Jackie Chan going on
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 7:52 pm
by Slayerx
How soon do they release viewing figures ?
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:14 pm
by Ironhide
That final scene was quite unsettling.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 10:34 pm
by Grumpy David
Great episode. Good to have it back.
Had to rush to pause the end before the "this season ahead" trailer showed at the end of the episode. No doubt as spoilerific as the Youtube trailer a while back.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sat Mar 01, 2014 11:34 pm
by Monkey Man
Slayerx wrote:How soon do they release viewing figures ?
32% down on last seasons premiere but 38% up on last seasons finale. Nothing to worry about as it's paid for from foreign money, is on the 2nd worst night and is .1 up on NBCs highest show on Thursday.
NBC’s Hannibal returned for its second season Friday night in a tougher time slot and softer ratings.
The season two premiere delivered 3.4 million viewers and a 1.1 rating among adults 18-49, ranking third at 10 p.m. That’s down 32 percent from its Thursday series premiere last season. A dip was expected with this schedule shift, but it’s a bummer that Hannibal also sliced 21 percent of its Grimm lead-in. The one upside: Hannibal was slightly higher than the average performance of Dracula in this slot this season.
http://insidetv.ew.com/2014/03/01/hanni ... -season-2/Anyway a fantastic return and as usual it looked amazing.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 1:56 pm
by KingK
Is/will this be on a Sky channel?
Loved the 1st series
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:12 pm
by Monkey Man
KingK wrote:Is/will this be on a Sky channel?
Loved the 1st series
Starts in May.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Sun Mar 02, 2014 2:15 pm
by Crimson
Dat opening scene. Great start to the season.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:01 am
by Denster
PurplePenguin wrote:It's a shame because I want to like Hannibal I love the books,the movies and maybe that's part of the problem I just can't accept anybody but Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. I also think Will Graham is far too whiny yes he's a seriously troubled individual but the TV series leans a little too heavily on his inability to cope.
Disregarding the fact that Hopkins was second to the role. Brian Cox is sublime in Manhunter (the original Red Dragon).
As for Mads - his is a wonderful take on the role. Primarily because it is so iconic (and Hopkins was so) it is all the more revelatory to see how well he plays him.
I really struggle to get on board with people who express that view. It's very close minded.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 12:19 am
by Grumpy David
By contrast, I think Mads is a better Hannibal than Hopkins.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:00 pm
by Ironhide
Mads is so good at doing evil roles, thought he was superb in Casino Royale too.
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:16 pm
by Slayerx
Re: Hannibal on NBC - Season 2 - Saturdays
Posted: Mon Mar 03, 2014 7:57 pm
by PurplePenguin
Denster wrote:PurplePenguin wrote:It's a shame because I want to like Hannibal I love the books,the movies and maybe that's part of the problem I just can't accept anybody but Anthony Hopkins as Hannibal Lecter. I also think Will Graham is far too whiny yes he's a seriously troubled individual but the TV series leans a little too heavily on his inability to cope.
Disregarding the fact that Hopkins was second to the role. Brian Cox is sublime in Manhunter (the original Red Dragon).
As for Mads - his is a wonderful take on the role. Primarily because it is so iconic (and Hopkins was so) it is all the more revelatory to see how well he plays him.
I really struggle to get on board with people who express that view. It's very close minded.
It isn't close minded to have the opinion that Anthony Hopkins was so brilliant as Hannibal Lecter it's hard to see any other actor in the role doing it as good or better.It's completely possible I just don't think Mads Mikkelsen does anything particularly memorable with the role. I'm sure many people were the same in regards to the Joker after Nicholson had portrayed him so well in Batman but Heath Ledger came along and re-invented Joker in his own unique way and was brilliant.The Hannibal series for me is too polished it needs to be grittier. There's also too many whacky serial killers on the loose which makes supposedly unique characters like Hannibal seem quite normal in comparison. Within four or five episodes of season one
you've had a man who kills young women who remind him of his daughter, a guy who kidnaps people puts them into a coma and turns them into a fungal garden and another guy who kills people makes wings out of the skin on their backs and poses them as angels to watch over him as he sleeps.I just feel it could of been so much more with the characters and material they've got to hand instead it feels the tone and structure of the show is more CSI and less the books by Thomas Harris.
