"Hannibal" Is Facing Cancellation

It's up against Scandal and Elementary. It never had a chance. Perhaps if they had moved it to another night.

Well, one thing about NBC - especially in that particular time slot - they will really hang in there and give the show a chance to thrive.

So ... if it bites it it's not because it wasn't given a chance.

it's not good and it is grotesque. Lots of closeups of Lecter preparing and cooking human organs.

OP, I'm giving serious thought to eating your wife.

I don't like the guy playing Lecter. Is he famous for something else? He gets staggered top billing with Hugh Dancy even though his role is much smaller. (Dancy is quite good BTW.)

It's a bit too niche and macabre for broadcast TV. This would have worked so much better on Showtime or Starz.

I can't seem to get into it, and Fishburne's just phoning it in. It was nice to see his wife playing his wife a couple of episodes ago though. The missing episode that NBC pulled is available on all of the streaming sites and as a series of webisodes now.

Watch all NBC webisodes from pulled 'Hannibal' episode

I may watch it online when Scandal is over. It was just the wrong time for me. I love Hugh Dancy, but I love Kerry more.

yeah r6 said macabre! My favorite word!

I love it.

I'd like it if Hugh Dancy and Theo James could play gay lovers in some show next year. I didn't think Golden Boy was that great, but I watched it. The two of them are just so insanely gorgeous. The only thing I'd like more is a show starring Hugh Dancy and Billy Crudup as male lovers.

Good, it's trash.

Hannibal is honestly one of the best shows of the season. I hope it gets renewed. And yes, Hugh Dancy is a revelation, even though the other guy gets top billing and all the promo.

You're kidding me r3 - a show about a serial killing cannibal is, gasp, grotesque? How dare they spoil the good reputation of serial killing cannibals..

R13, mads shares top billing with Hugh. Their names even appear together in the opening credits.

The show is awesome. I LOVE it.

If you like Hugh Dancy, check out Daniel Deronda, a BBC movie he did years ago.

They alternate top billing each week and the billing is staggered with the one on the left lower than the one on the right. (must have been some serious negotiations to arrive at that.)

Hugh Dancy, did he ever show cawk?

Not that I know of, and I've looked, R19.

don't think so r19. I saw him in a play where he raped Ben Whishaw....it was hot. (but I don't endorse rape or rape rape)

The whole Hannibal Lechter thing has been done to death.

Hugh was great on The Big C as a gay dude with cancer.

I love it, and hope they move it to another night and give it a second season.

[quote]You're kidding me [R3] - a show about a serial killing cannibal is, gasp, grotesque? How dare they spoil the good reputation of serial killing cannibals..

I meant it as an explanation of why it failed. It went too far. People can deal with intense gore for a few scenes in a 2 hour movie. They can deal with it in a fantasy like Walking Dead. They can deal with brief shots of gore on CSI. Not too many people want to spend an hour each week with lots of lingering closeups of disfigured corpses and human organ meat in a real world setting.

It's very dark and very grim, so I can see what it's not popular, although I'm sure NBC thought the title would draw people who liked Silence of the Lambs and the other Lecter films.

I confess that at times I have problems following the plots and the show seems to double back on itself quite often.

The frequent flashbacks, dreams and visions don't help in terms of clarity. They may work in setting a disorienting tone, but that's a challenge for a network TV audience.

I hope they renew it and pair it with Grimm on Fridays. The showrunner Bryan Fuller has an awesome six year plan that he's discussed in interviews.

I do wish they cast someone else as Hannibal, though.

The guy they cast as Hannibal is just too grotesque looking. He's very hard to look at. I can't stand to look at him. I think a lot of people think the same and so don't watch.

wELL ITS HARD TO COMPETE WITH aNTHONY hOpkins.they shoulod have tried to get Brian Cox from the old TV movie.Maybe Sir Anthony will make soime more movies now.

Nothing seems to work on NBC at that time slot.

It's just too violent. I made it through the pilot and couldn't watch it again.

I like it because it's violent and Hannibal is a freak. He sort of makes cannibalism look delicious.

I prefer Scandal during that hour.

WTF? "Hard to look at"?? Mads (Hannibal) is totally beautiful and mesmerizing, I find it impossible to look at anyone else when he's onscreen. Can't wait to see season 2 on Netflix

Saw the mushroom people in the second or third ep and I was out!

Why is this thread being bumped? I got all the way to the second page before I realized it was from last spring.

I just can't get over NBC showing such a gruesome show. This kind of thing is okay on network TV? And don't get me wrong, I love horror, violence, and gore as much as anyone.

R29, it's so weird to think their final choice for Hannibal was between Mads and David Tennant.

Agree with r35. Mads is gorgeous.

R35, Season 2 is already available to stream on Netflix Canada. Just get a simple VPN extension for your browser and choose your country of origin as Canada. Once you do that your browser will refresh and you will see the login page for Netflix Canada. Use your same credentials.

It's completely legal. It's the same page you would see if you were traveling with your laptop to Canada and wanted to watch Netflix.

That's awesome r40!.

Hugh Dancy was THE reason to watch this great show. Mads Mikkelsen looks like a desiccated corpse and his "acting" is the equivalent of being a tree trunk.

Dancy, however, was terrific. And he's amazing in his new Hulu show The Path, too.

I thought it was already cancelled. Netflix refused to carry the series.

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I hate the artwork for that show. The image of Hannibal dabbing his mouth. So annoying.

Good lord, just let it die already.

I agree with R29. I am not even sure what it is, really. Maybe he has a waxen face with odd features. And, his mannerisms. Makes him very hard to watch.

That's the whole point! He's a monster wearing a human suit. You're supposed to feel uneasy watching him.

^

No, that is actually how he looks. In real life.

R49 Not really. I wasn't creeped out by him in Doctor Strange at all.

I am a big fan of Hannibal Lecter the character, and i was actually surprised by how good the series was vs the movies (only Silence of the Lambs is decent, Hannibal (the movie) was OK and Hannibal rising (both book and movie) are terrible). I would love to see how they can continue the series.

I love all the Hannibal films (Rising less than all, love the rest), but the TV series was incomprehensible and impossible to love.

It was beautifully done, but it was too much gore and intense insanity all the time...

That said, if Fuller gets another season or two to tell the Clarice storyline, I'm in.

Bumping this because I decided to give this a try, having read good things about it. I broke my rule not to ever. EVER, watch network tv again.

There’s a reason for rules.

Wow, what a letdown. Mikkelson is completely miscast as Lecter. Same goes for Fishburne, who is completely terrible in this part.

The show is so overwrought. There’s so real exploration in the storytelling what the killer is doing or why, other than Will Graham, aka Captain Exposition, suddenly blurting things out about the killer that he’d have no basis to know. Dancey gets wild eyed and exclaims “HE USES NONDAIRY CREAMER.” Care to share with the rest of us, motherfucker?

At one point Graham is in an office bathroom and Crawford comes in and SCREAMS at another FBI employee who has innocently come in to “USE THE LADIES ROOM!” Why? It’s so teevee. Then graham and Crawford scream at each other and there’s no reason to do so. Why are they screaming at each other, I thought.

The show tries way too hard to be weird and extreme. All the graphic gore is no substitute for disturbing storytelling.

I’m sure the CGI for the elephants was getting expensive.

This show was (is?) so bizarre. I absolutely adore Thomas Harris’s novels (yes all 4, Hannibal actually being my favorite) and love the films (Hannibal Rising less space, but love the other 3) so I am perceivably the intended audience for this... it just lies there, with blasts of ridiculous gore and beautiful shots. I got halfway through Season 2 on Blu-Ray before I gave up, but perhaps I’ll give it another go now, what, 5 years later? I respect Fuller’s vision and perhaps I’d have a different take on it now. Maybe not... we shall see!

Having a genuine genocidal psychopath in the White House kind of harshes the appeal.