#hannibal nbc

[a-little-cretur]

"i don't intend hannibal to caught a second time" is such a crazy insane thing for will to say honestly like we don't talk about it enough.

he really said, 'might kill him, might fuck him, idk yet but the important thing is he belongs to me not the state of maryland.'

[rocktheholygrail]

happy 10th anniversary of this episode to those who celebrate! 🥳🎉

[queer-cannibalistic-vampire]

[klimtsonian]

“I’m not fortune’s fool, I’m yours.” 🩸

[gay-gambler]

Oh girl I'm either a victim of hannibal or other killers I'm not surviving pass season 1 I would try to befriend will graham though

[agathah]

MUAHAHAHAHA SAVE ME YURI HANNIGRAM SAVE MEE

[filmsdkye]

every-time i rewatch the hannibal pilot im reminded of how much of an asshole will graham is and how it’s so funny that hannibal eat-the-rude lector did not immediately soufflé his ass. instead he developed a crush and had no choice but to wage psychological warfare on him.

[neitherofusideal]

Just thinking about Will, in this exact moment, hearing and feeling Hannibal's heart pounding and finally knowing the answer to his question, "Is he in love with me?"—that raw certainty hitting him firsthand. Like damn.

[riot-rose-eats-people]

these silly geese I swear

Hannibal season 3 behind the scenes

[rocktheholygrail]

happy 50th birthday, hugh dancy!

[wilsonsmcgillsweatshirt]

When their entire relationship is toxic, but they're both so fucked up that it's actually the best case scenario, because subjecting anybody else to either of them would be a human rights violation.

[sadfishpile]

pov you met the murder husbands

[patchouii]

This is actually one of my favorite meta details about the novels because it’s just so uniquely compelling…. The show stays faithful to this by having Hannibal and Will each break the fourth wall twice, at least on my count, but there might be more instances of this that I’ve missed. With a show so fixated on even the smallest background details, the cardinal sin of camera work— audience eye contract— is intentional.

He does this during his dinner party in S1Ep7 (Sorbet) as he toasts the guests, content in the knowledge that his plans for Will and his machinations as the Ripper will soon come to fruition, and in S3Ep13 (Mizumono), when he embraces and comforts Abigail as everything falls apart— whereas his glance at us was smug before, a showman’s prideful acknowledgment, it’s raw here. Almost animalistic. Hannibal breaks the fourth wall as the harbinger of chaos and cruelty that occurs at his hand, as if relishing and taking solace in the fact that we can’t stop him. His descriptions of God as an uncaring, rather flippant entity who would rather be entertained by the tribulations of the world is a perfect description of the outside audience from a character’s point of view.

In the show, though, where Will is an original amalgam of the characters of Clarice and Will with hints of Hannibal from the novels, he actually demonstrates fourth wall awareness too. During S1Ep5 (Coquilles), when he closes and then opens his eyes on the hotel bed to empathize with the Angel Maker, Will makes direct eye contact with us, and in S3Ep2 (Primavera) he stares up at us, laying on the steps of the Norman Chapel in contemplation after conjuring a vision of Abigail to help process his feelings. Will breaks the fourth wall whenever he sinks into the liminal state of interconnection that his empathy provides. Will’s empathy seems to allow him to look past the limits of the fictional universe they exist in much like Hannibal can.

We mostly follow Will throughout the story, and the fact that all the violence we see with him has a pursuit motif or an overwhelming artistic element to it while following Hannibal killing Dr. Sutcliffe showed the raw reality of the act is….. very telling. Especially alongside the fact that we never see so many of the things he knew Hannibal did, the gory, brutal processes of his killing and butchering….. the narrative is bent around that to further a sense of meaning and romance, directing us away from the darker, simpler truths of their acceptance of each other like a child hiding stolen sweets behind their back.

It makes even more sense that they’d be the only two people in a world full of “sheep” who could understand and equal other— they share the same lucid, cosmic perception of their reality as a whole. So when you watch Hannibal and Will on the screen, in a meta sense, they are also aware of and watching you…… :)

bringing it up again for the millionth time but I'm still obsessed with the way that hannibal lecter is canonically aware of the narrative not because its ever explicitly stated but because the author who created him genuinely believes this to be true and stopped writing the book series because he's afraid of him

[asadstatue]

Will's expression towards Hannibal vs. his expression when finding Abigail alive just proves he didn't care about Abigail (and honestly, anyone else) as much as he did about Hannibal. He was shocked/relieved to see Abigail alive, but the real distress was when he expected Hannibal gone and safe, but he found him standing right behind him in the middle of the carnage, instead.

"You were supposed to leave." Not "how is she still alive?" Not "what did you do to her?" Not "why did you lie to me?". Only furious at risking his safety and staying while he should've been gone on Will's warning.

[deqncas]

that's so many HOURS on the car every episode holy shit