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If this show was on HBO it would be the hottest shit, ever. But it's on NBC, so no one is paying attention. Too bad, because it's finally network TV fit for grown-ups.
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Apr 18, 2013 - 5:32 PM
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After the first episode I gave up. If it gets on track and settles into a groove I may give it another try, however. While there was a nice style to the show overall, Will Graham was just portrayed as a nutjob from the beginning, all the nervous tics and unkempt jittery appearance. In Red Dragon/ Manhunter, at worst he was ... haunted... not a jumpy head case.
Plus he made some tremendous deductive leaps that were just silly. It is understood that he gets into the mindset of a killer but...at several point he just seemed to pull huge leaps in reasoning from thin air, which turn out to be just 100% right.
It was a nice shoutout to have them use Garrett Jacob Hobbs, but it was a throwaway. Hobbs could have been used in a multi episode arc to show Will's decline as he gets closer and feels more, but they pretty much tossed it out as a quickie.
It just felt like a mess. After the season ends if the buzz is still positive, I might try it on DVD, but the premier episode didn't promise good things 
I really wanted to like it ....
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Apr 18, 2013 - 11:49 PM
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Dana Wilcox
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After the first episode I gave up. If it gets on track and settles into a groove I may give it another try, however. While there was a nice style to the show overall, Will Graham was just portrayed as a nutjob from the beginning, all the nervous tics and unkempt jittery appearance. In Red Dragon/ Manhunter, at worst he was ... haunted... not a jumpy head case.
Plus he made some tremendous deductive leaps that were just silly. It is understood that he gets into the mindset of a killer but...at several point he just seemed to pull huge leaps in reasoning from thin air, which turn out to be just 100% right.
It was a nice shoutout to have them use Garrett Jacob Hobbs, but it was a throwaway. Hobbs could have been used in a multi episode arc to show Will's decline as he gets closer and feels more, but they pretty much tossed it out as a quickie.
It just felt like a mess. After the season ends if the buzz is still positive, I might try it on DVD, but the premier episode didn't promise good things
I really wanted to like it ....
I think you pretty much hit it, Mike. I don't think I'm a fan of the really dark stuff (this and THE FOLLOWING for example) on prime time network tv. If I still had young children at home I would be really disturbed about it, as a matter of fact. Good for HBO or Showtime, maybe, though I doubt I would watch either show even there, based on first episodes of each.
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I did not want to see another stab at this material at all. I thought it was all maxed out, this whole serial killer genre.
But then I gave the show a chance - and I was hooked from the beginning. The wonderful thing is that it is not just a "serial killer of the week"-procedural but offers several big story arcs so that the show really is about the relationships between the characters.
Visually and sonically, this is also a very intelligent take on the genre, and the music by Reitzell fits perfectly.
I hope some label will pick this up and release a score CD.
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I did not want to see another stab at this material at all. I thought it was all maxed out, this whole serial killer genre.
But then I gave the show a chance - and I was hooked from the beginning. The wonderful thing is that it is not just a "serial killer of the week"-procedural but offers several big story arcs so that the show really is about the relationships between the characters.
Visually and sonically, this is also a very intelligent take on the genre, and the music by Reitzell fits perfectly.
I hope some label will pick this up and release a score CD.
Glad you gave it a chance! It never managed to find the right balance between the major story arcs and the procedural of the week, but the interplay between Lecter and Graham was never less than fascinating, and Mikkelsen's performance will IMHO go down as one of the greatest in all of television. I think he'd be getting a lot more notice for it if he weren't playing Hannibal Lecter. The look he gives Graham in the final shot of the season absolutely floored me.
Now having digested the whole season, I'm much more confident now that I'd like an album of the score.
I agree on everything but your criticism on the balance of the story arcs and the procedural. I think one of the great joys of this show is how varied this balance was and therefore unpredictable. Personally, I do not like procedurals that much, the format is always annoying to me because I know exactly how everything will happen. "Hannibal" deliciously played around with its format.
Just my two cents.
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ive watched the series since the beginning and i sway from enjoying it to getting a bit bored with the endless dragging out, and also being a little put off by the fact each new serial killer has to be sicker and gorier and more insane than the previous 20 serial killers in every serial killer movie since Silence. We even had one in the series that made a totem pole out of symmetrical limbs of victims.
the "musical" score is unsettling and unlistenable but very very effective in the show. Reminds me a little of the way Greenwoods score worked in There will be blood. And works in the similar way Morricone used dissonnant noises in his 70s horror films.
Five minutes of this album and id confess the invasion plans!!!
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Fans who attended the HANNIBAL Comic-Con panel were given an exclusive CD containing music that will not be included on the 4 upcoming commercial CD releases.
Oooh, awesome!
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