Contemplate your self a Fannibal? Based mostly on the novels by Thomas Harris (Pink Dragon, The Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal and Hannibal Rising), the ugly and gory drama Hannibal hit NBC in 2013 — and followers turned obsessed.
The Bryan Fuller-helmed collection — which starred Danish actor Mads Mikkelsen because the titular cannibalistic serial killer and Hugh Dancy as prison profiler Will Graham — acquired important acclaim. In 2013, Vulture’s Matt Zoller Seitz known as Hannibal “essentially the most stunning present on TV, alarmingly so.”
In 2015, The New Yorker’s Emily Nussbaum wrote of the present’s magnetic pull: “I stored sneaking again, peeking by way of my fingers — a glimpse right here, a binge there — both numbing myself or, relying on one’s perspective, correctly sensitizing myself. Progressively, my eyes adjusted to the darkness. By halfway by way of season 2, Hannibal felt much less like a blood-soaked ordeal than like a macabre masterpiece, pure pleasure and audacity.”
Regardless of this reward, the present solely picked up one Primetime Emmy nomination all through its three seasons, and was canceled in 2015. Fuller didn’t blame the community, nevertheless. In an announcement on the time, he thanked them for permitting him to “craft a tv collection that no different broadcast community would have dared.”
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