TV series · 2013
Hannibal
An FBI profiler and a psychiatrist build a bond that will turn into something far more dangerous.
- Year
- 2013
- Created by
- Bryan Fuller
- Starring
- Hugh Dancy, Caroline Dhavernas, Laurence Fishburne, Hettienne Park, Gillian Anderson, Scott Thompson, Aaron Abrams, Joe Anderson
- Seasons
- 3
- Episodes
- 39
- Network
- NBC
- Country
- United States
- Original language
- English
- Kind of horror
- Psychological
This one follows Will Graham, an FBI investigator with an uncanny gift for stepping into a killer's mind, and Dr Hannibal Lecter, the forensic psychiatrist brought in to help steady him. The two of them build something that looks, at first, like trust.
It's a slow, creeping sort of dread rather than jump scares, the kind where you find yourself questioning every calm smile and every dinner invitation. Bryan Fuller built this out of Thomas Harris's novels, but he takes his time here, letting the horror sit in glances and silences long before it ever shows its hand.
This is one for a night when you want to be unsettled rather than startled, the sort of watch that rewards a dark room and your full attention, because you'll miss things the moment you look at your phone. Save it for a quiet evening when nothing else is competing for your focus.
Just maybe don't plan anything too ambitious for dinner while you're watching.
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