NBC began developing a Hannibal series in 2011 and former head of drama Katie O'Connell brought in her long-time friend Bryan Fuller (who had previously served as a writer-producer on NBC's Heroes) to write a pilot script in November. NBC gave the series a financial commitment before Fuller had completed his script. On February 14, 2012, NBC bypassed the pilot stage of development by giving the series a 13-episode first season based solely on the strength of Fuller's script. The series went into production quickly thereafter.
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Runtime | 41 – 44 min |
Premiere: World | April 4, 2013 |
Premiere: USA | April 4, 2013 |
Channel | NBC (22:00, United States) |
Digital: World | September 16, 2014 |
Parental Advisory | Frightening & Intense Scenes, Violence & Gore, Sex & Nudity, ... |
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Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers.Сast and Crew
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Critique: 67
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This last run of episodes has been exceptional, adapting Harris’s Red Dragon novel with Fuller’s distinctive visual flair, and making e...
Fortunately, Dancy’s performance is terrific and more than enough to maintain our interest, with or without elks.
The thing that does give this show its grounding is the acting. Dancy is a perfect, tortured soul; Fishburne is everyman with a brain; an...
Hannibal is so exquisitely rendered that it’s sometimes easy to forget what you’re actually watching, at least until an artery opens an...
At once beautiful and languorous, Hannibal unfolds with the logic of a terrifying dream.
The killers on Hannibal are far less interested in slaking violent urges than they are in producing beautifully destroyed corpses, and generating&n...
I’m not sure how he does it, but Mikkelsen’s Lecter somehow manages to be entirely recognizable and yet completely new… Curl up with&nb...
Hannibal begins its third season in a fog, but eventually makes this much clear: We know how this story ends, but the journey to that destinat...
After two years in the role, Mikkelsen has outgrown the Anthony Hopkins film portrayal and made this charismatic monster his own.
[This] prequel to The Silence of the Lambs manages to be engaging and haunting without being formulaic.
Knowing that we can safely root for Will makes it so much easier to plug into Hannibal.
Now in its third season, Hannibal remains the most engrossing (and gross) serial-killer drama on television, and the most beautiful.
For its authentic engagement with despair, Hannibal earns its wrenching nihilism.
Fuller et al. have succeeded in making not just a cogent adaptation but one of the finest dramas on television, all by tapping into the inhere...
If Hannibal wasn’t already too cerebral for the average horror fan, it may have accidentally stumbled into the muck of pretension… But despit...
On every level, Bryan Fuller and the team behind Hannibal are elevating what we should expect from network television.
It is a magnificently macabre drama that looks and feels like absolutely nothing else on TV.
Stylistically, it’s unlike anything else on TV. The camerwork is stunning, with several episodes directed by Guillermo Navarro, cinematograph...
At its heart, Hannibal is one of TV’s best examinations of the nature of evil, but it’s also a dark pulp thriller, with a ric...
Where other TV shows avoid the weight of all that death, Hannibal turns the horror into opera – bold and beautiful and over-the-top and opulent.
Hannibal is a terrifically performed, stylishly shot TV series that does, in stellar fashion, exactly what is sets out to do.
The meal being served is different, but the chef remains the same. And viewers need not fear what Hannibal cooks up next.
There’s no small screen violence more disturbing than that of Hannibal, the excellent Silence of the Lambs prequel series created by Bryan Fu...
This may just be too bizarre a story for network-sized consumption. But normal isn’t working for NBC, so why not try strange – part...
There’s a lot of talent at work here; but I found the show a turnoff.
Mostly, it’s about the elaborate dance between Hannibal and Will. Much has been made of Mads Mikkelsen’s ability to do more with a bare...
Having used its hiatus to miraculous effect, the show… is much better than it once was, perhaps the guiltiest pleasure on television at this time.
With its gory violence and occasional highbrow dialogue, it’s hard to believe Hannibal airs on an American broadcast network. But really, it...
Hannibal is the rare network show with an utterly unique visual palette – even if it’s one many might find distinctly unpalatable.
For the most part Hannibal suffers from the same fatal flaw as its main character: It takes itself so seriously that it’s no fun at all..
Ye TV Gods, please let the next series about violence and mayhem do something original, not just amp up the ennui and blood spatter, not take adult...
Bryan Fuller’s delicate rendering contains enough beautiful images and unexpected moments to operate a little longer, but this little la...
Hugh Laurie’s turn as the misanthropic, wise-cracking doctor struggling with addiction has become an iconic television role.
It varies in narrative satisfaction, but is packed with cameos from the Thomas Harris texts and set under a shifting sky of horrific, magnetic...
Maybe it was too weird, maybe it was too gruesome. But it was, all puns intended, bloody good.
Hannibal remains a show that flirts dangerously with being very silly, however it struts about with such devil-may-care panache that it gets a...
No series, Twin Peaks included, has quite managed to be as deadly serious but also as winkingly ludicrous, so that you can’t easily separate...
This second-season run has been so extraordinary, and Bryan Fuller clearly has so much story left to tell, so the fact that NBC will continue to ai...
Once we arrive at the halfway point of the second series, though – by which time, the spinning of narrative plates has reached a frenzy&n...
Hyperstylized and, at times, hypnotically beautiful, it’s a nightmare masquerading as a dream, the rare cannibal story that has the smar...
Its boldest, most ambitious, and most novelistic [season] yet, though it runs the risk of becoming too caught up in its own aesthetic.
I went into Hannibal dreading it and came away five episodes later thrilled by it.
Thanks to some sharp dialogue pleated with myriad meanings, Mikkelsen and Anderson enthrall just as much as the show’s usual histrionic, CGI...
The Cases of The Week slipped away, allowing for more character development within the season-long story. It seems like that story was explored to...
Hannibal’s second season elevates the surprisingly-high bar set by the first – creating binge-worthy television that makes you, like the...
That’s a problem with the show: It takes itself so seriously, yet is so far-fetched.
The precise and surgical control Hannibal has always exercised is starting to unravel and it’s exciting to see how his downfall eventually un...
Somehow it has become an engrossing, psychologically dense show that is also visually stunning. Hannibal is the kind of gem seldom found on network...
This programme certainly provokes some interesting questions: how narrow is the line twixt good and bad? Can one become contaminated by evil? How t...
With the first two episodes of season two of Bryan Fuller’s brilliant reimagining of Thomas Harris' Hannibal… the creators of what I consider...
The show’s greatest asset is its mastery of tone, a quality most shows don’t have the time or inclination to get right.
Season three of Hannibal offers a thrilling feast of visual and auditory delights.
Hannibal enthralls the viewer’s aesthetic sense with its stunning photography, sophisticated use of imagery, and breathtaking beauty while at...
At times, this drama is absolutely transfixing, and I say that as someone who felt great weariness at the thought of watching one more show ab...
The last thing television needs is more serial killer dramas. But when they’re this well made, this smart and creative and unexpectedly funny...
Be forewarned: Hannibal is not for the squeamish – there’s gore galore – but if you’re looking for a new show on which t...
When you are in with Hannibal Lecter, you are in a waking nightmare, where everything seems like it should exist only in the darkest corners o...
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Watched
The usual parasitism on the name. There is no intrigue and, as a result, no interest in watching it. The dialogues are empty and shameful, he has the same visualization abilities as Sherlock. There is little about Hanibal, but a lot about one-time cross-cutting villains for one episode. Translated to English
Season 1Watched
An excellent series, almost the best I’ve ever watched. I won’t lie, the only two characters that stand out in the entire series are Will Graham and Hannibal Lector. And the horror scenes with cannibalism instill are just incredible feelings of fear, to experience that from the series is simply incredible. Translated to English
Watched
A heartbreaking sight. Until recently I couldn’t believe that Will and Hannibal would do this. That Fuller will do it. But they did. Translated to English
Season 3Watched
The atmosphere is still as gorgeous as in season 1, although some of the crimes are terrifying. The acting by Mads Mikkelson and Hugh Dancy is excellent, but the whole relationship is infuriating. They go too far with them. Translated to English
Season 2Watched
Terribly aesthetically pleasing and disgusting at the same time. This must be watched late at night with headphones in complete silence on the big screen in order to be completely immersed in this viscous, oppressive and unreal atmosphere. Pinch me, I can’t wake up! There is hope for season 4… Translated to English
Watched
I remember how my friend and I watched this and ate pasta with tuna, a very, very long time ago, back in the dorm. We can, but I don’t advise you to do this. I love the series, it’s unique and aesthetically delicious. The salt of the plot leads in a thin, red line to the ending, which will break your heart. Translated to English
Watched
A 39-episode bloody madness with a very stylish picture and a galaxy of anti-heroes. 9.5 out of 10 Translated to English
Watched
I don’t understand why this is so highly rated. Season 1 was normal, but starting from the second, everything descended into some kind of fierce extravaganza of stupidity and a complete lack of logic and cause-and-effect relationships. You can build up intrigue without being stupid!!! I barely finished watching season 2. I don’t have enough patience. Translated to English
Watched
Ina really liked this series. Good acting, cinematography, cool style and good plot. I highly recommend it to fans of psychological thrillers. Translated to English