 Okay, so we're gonna talk about a show that I am loving slash hating at the same time. I started watching Hannibal about a few months ago. I'm still getting through the second season merely with going back to work. It has slowed down my progress of the show. I heard a lot of very good things about this show to the point where I actually regretted having not watched it when it was taken off of Netflix the first time. It's literally been on and off Netflix long enough that I have had a period of time of regret of not watching it and I watched the first season. And the first thing I can say is this show has an impressive production value considering the maturity and the intensity of its content at times. I actually really enjoyed the casting of Hugh Dancy as Will Graham. When I think of the character of Will Graham, I don't think of the Edward Norton character from Red Dragon. I think of the William Peterson character from Manhunter. Manhunter is actually technically the first attempt at trying to bring Thomas Harris' novels over onto the big screen. This film was made in 1987, directed by Michael Mann, had William Peterson as Will Graham and Brian Cox as Hannibal Lecter, which sure it's not as good as Anthony Hopkins. Not in the same realm, but it is still a decent attempt at the character. Will Graham by William Peterson has always stuck in my mind as a very tortured character. That film truly illustrated how far into the means of profiling that Will Graham could go, that he gets so much into the minds of these killers that he's fighting this kind of back and forth of possibly being able to comprehend the means, the understandings, the emotions of a serial killer or the lack thereof. So having Hugh Dancy's interpretation of the character, I thought was pretty spot on at first. It gets a little bit much later on, but we'll talk about that later on. But the other casting choice I really enjoyed was Mads and Mickelson as Hannibal Lecter. I know that Anthony Hopkins is English and Mads is Danish. You know what? I don't care. I actually thought that this was a perfect, perfect casting choice. What we've seen from Silence of the Lambs, Red Dragon and Hannibal and all that, we've seen what Hannibal Lecter was like after he was incarcerated to the point where he doesn't need to hide who his true self is anymore. Willingly open with being a creepy, creepy dude who likes to eat people. What I always wanted to know, and that's what this show is giving, is what Hannibal Lecter was like in terms of a normal society. Hiding who his true self was, but still being able to amalgamate with society and with high class people. And I love that he is dancing around people in this show. I think that his sophistication, his cooking techniques, which supposedly Mads cooked everything, everything that he serves as his character, he actually cooked himself, which is like, damn, you actually get really hungry watching this show, even though you know what he's serving, which again, is so cool that they're committing so much to the material, to the content of what his character is, and to the idea of profiling, to the idea of ritualistic serial killers. However, the show gets a bit much later on. This is the part that bugs me a bit. I'll go from absolutely loving the show with fantastic cinematography, great visual storytelling in terms of Will's insanity, or his drive into insanity. The music is also very unnerving. It never really lets you calm down. It never eases you. It's always putting you on an edge of tension, which is fantastic, fantastic building. And for the most part, I actually like the serial killers that they come across. Sure, it's a bit much that they come across the top 10 most ridiculous and over the top monsters in human society ever, every week. First, that doesn't bother me too much. I enjoy the first person that Will goes after that really bogs into his mind in the form of the stag. It's later on. There's parts where I just go from absolutely loving it to telling the show to go straight fuck itself. And I think the first time that I said that was when the Tower of Human Body Parts was found on the beach. I think I just said, oh fuck off, fuck right off. It was at this point where it was starting to go into voyeuristic, artistic integrity, jacking off to your own imagination bullshit. And there are some parts that worked really well in terms of its visual representation. I found the silo of the people all sewed together. That part was gross. And the guy who got out of it, I couldn't believe that they actually aired this on cable television. Obviously the walking dead kind of paved the way for this, but my God, that shit was gross. The show just never lets you down in terms of visual entertainment. Does it go absolutely over the goddamn top quite a bit? Oh, for sure. There was the one where the bodies were kneeling and the backs flesh had been ripped up to be like angels. It's like, oh really? Or like when I'm in the second season right now, the judge who's doing Will Graham's trial, he is found just in pieces in his courtroom. And they're just leaving the door willy-nilly open and one of the lawyers just comes by like, but then there's people behind her just walking normally by like, oh look there, Judge, what's his name got crucified and internally torn apart? Whatever. This is another Tuesday. That's what I mean in terms of how ridiculous the show can be sometimes. Speaking of the trial and Will Graham's thing, I understand that they are trying to emulate Silence of the Lambs with his visual forms of incarceration, but the fact that every time they have to talk to Will Graham, he's in this tiny little box, yet when he's in the courtroom, just handcuffs. He's not in some weird masochistic box, but they have to do it when he's doing these interviews in a secure prison. I understand again, visual storytelling. Give them props for that. Really great job on the production design. It's what slowed me down from watching the second season right now is that it's just getting a little bit too much. It's getting a bit ridiculous. Okay, maybe a bit is a little bit lenient. It's getting really goddamn ridiculous. I'm going to finish it. At least that's my intent. I'm going to finish it. I find that the show is just kind of going into the realm of Sherlock Will's ability to think like a serial killer has gotten to the point where he can now just look at a photo, look at some notes for about five seconds, and then he puts himself into the mind of the killer and he's there. I was like, okay, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa. It made sense the first time because he was standing in the room. Yeah, okay, maybe it isn't really realistic at all, but at least it was established that if he was at the scene of the crime, everything around him, he could kind of reinterpret it, the crime himself. But now you apparently could just look at a photo and be like, yep, I know exactly what happened. I even know details of the room that I'm not even told from this photo. That's what I mean in terms of its overextravagancy. I'm hoping that maybe it tones itself down. I can't wait for Jillian Anderson to come back in the third season. Apparently, she's a regular in the third season. So that's been my major motivation. I love me, Jillian. She's so damn cool. I'm not going to give a review of the show until I'm done. But if I were to give like kind of basis reviews, I would give the first season a five out of seven for sure. Second one, I don't know. I'm a little bit on the fence right now. But anyways, guys, I hope you enjoyed this video. If you did leave a like and if you're interested in more subscribe, if you haven't seen Hannibal, I would definitely at least say watch the first season if you are a bit queasy. It's a bit much. At least doing a pretty decent interpretation of silence of the lambs if with the extravagancy of Hannibal. Anyways, that's all for me. See you guys next time. Thanks for watching the video. My name is Nitz and you might remember me from the animated cult classic TV show undergrads. It's been a while, but I'm happy to say the click is finally getting back together in an all new movie thanks to a successful Kickstarter campaign. 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