Hannibal: "GIVE ME SEASON-4!"
- Story Doctor
- Aug 18, 2020
- 3 min read
Updated: Aug 20, 2020
Do you know why you don't remember the names of the murderers in the murder cases in all the Spy movies or TV shows that solve a case in every episode?
You don't know?
Well, watch Hannibal, and you'll know.
Personal Rating: 6/5
STARRED
Script: 6/5
Character Development: 6/5
Plot: 5/5
Engagement: 4/5
Acting: 6/5
Background Music: 7/5 [It has all the classical music I could think of]
Cinematography: 5/5
Theme: 5/5
Satisfaction: 5/5
You'll know and 'remember' all the psychiatrists' names, you'll know and 'remember' every murderers' names after the end of the season-1. You'll not feel like 'Ok, another murder just happened, whatever, what happens to the MC. I just need to see the MC.'
If such thing happens in a movie/ TV series/ fictions--then it's a problem. Remember, how we even know the name of Peevsy? Did you feel bad when Greyback killed Lavender Brown in the war? You recognize their names? Viola, you now know what kind of stories makes you remember the names of even the minor characters.
This series is so detailed, so artistic, so full of wine smelling, culinary art, meats, dinning, classical music, so much slow-motions, engaging dialogues and scripts.
If you want to watch theater level artistic acting you need to watch Hannibal.
If you want to know how to make every character memorable,
you need to watch it.
The inner conflicts are perfectly woven, all the cases somehow connects back to personal level of the MCs, that's smart! At least, in the first two seasons.
And Hannibal--right, the series name is Hannibal, so it's obvious he's the protagonist, or the anti-hero or the villain. But Will Graham, for that reason, needed to be equally competitive like character Hannibal. And the series just pulled it off so perfectly. Both in Season 1 and 2, Will, while having all his inner conflicts and stakes, was such a strong character. Hannibal was definitely as strong as the MC, I was initially wondering if Will Graham will keep up. But soon, I realized, I wasn't judging the characters anymore, I was that deep into the plot, the acting, the cooking, and every murder style. I mean, murder is always gross, but I had to admit they found the grossest + artistic way to show each murder scene; just as an artist of wicked mind would do.
So, yes, when I was judging initially, I found one of the beginning episode had too little screen time for Hannibal--the protagonist (antagonist), and I feared that the show might not be worth it, but in just the next episode, the table turned around, and I was 100% hooked. And then, I was smiling whenever there was classical music or whenever Hannibal was making active or passive moves.
I was rooting for both Hannibal and Will Graham. It's like I didn't want any of them to lose.
I don't remember last time when the characters touched me this much that I would want to draw them or feel that 'Yay! He's on the screen!'
A few negative points are:
Later in the third season the inner conflicts felt too dragged...
The horned stag just came way too much for me. I felt a symbol doesn't need to be too much on us.
Initially I wasn't liking "This is my design." But then, I started missing it when Will was...well...it'll be a spoiler if I say it. [It's My Design isn't no longer a negative point for me]
And the Season-3's beginning just didn't work much for me, though I liked the arts, the dialogues, their acting, everyone speaks so slowly like a hypnotist, I liked how Bedelia speaks while she buys wine for Hannibal--the repetition--Ah! Well! I might be blabbering here--but the art is that good.
A warning! If you are an impatient person who likes movies with frequent cursing or shootings or blasts or noise or cut-frames, you might be feeling why everyone is speaking so slow. But the ones with classy-tastes--they would clap, for sure. And I've to watch it again, because I forgot to analyse properly after I got hooked and drunk into the smell of wine.
Did you watch it, too? Do you feel similar? Or do you disagree? Let's discuss as fellow story-lovers!
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