{"id":65088,"date":"2014-09-05T15:44:40","date_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:44:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/?p=65088"},"modified":"2014-09-05T15:51:01","modified_gmt":"2014-09-05T14:51:01","slug":"hannibal-season-2-dvd-review-good-news-for-gore-fans","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/reviews\/hannibal-season-2-dvd-review-good-news-for-gore-fans\/","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal Season 2 DVD review: Good news for gore fans"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em><strong>Hannibal<\/strong><\/em> Season 1 was a thing of beauty. It was perfectly cast, the acting was sublime, the score frequently caused goosebumps, and every frame was so pretty that it made you want to cry.<\/p>\n<p><em><strong>Hannibal<\/strong><\/em> Season 2 is much of the same, but more.<\/p>\n<p>The opening episode follows on from Season 1\u2019s finale after a brief but bloody flash-forward. Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) is stuck in Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane after being framed for murder by Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen), who is throwing dinner parties.<\/p>\n<p>This setup continues for another six episodes, but stays fresh thanks to new characters, new crimes, new hallucinations and new hors d\u2019oeuvres.<\/p>\n<p>Once Will gets released from prison and appears to let go of his vendetta against Hannibal it\u2019s smooth sailing for a while, with more focus on cases and criminals (watch out for a brilliant turn from Michael Pitt as Mason Verger). And then, of course, in the spirit of <em><strong>Hannibal<\/strong><\/em>, it all goes spectacularly tits up.<\/p>\n<p>What makes the show really, very special is the relationship between Will and Hannibal and the extreme tension that radiates from every frame whenever they are alone in a room together. Will Hannibal kiss him? Will he kill him? Will he eat him? Mixed signals, man.<\/p>\n<p>Literally anything could happen at this point and it would still be feasible.<\/p>\n<p>Will and Hannibal\u2019s close and damaging relationship starts to morph them into one character. Dancy loses a fair chunk of the vulnerability that held Will back in Season 1 and begins to exhibit some of the psychopathic tendencies that make his therapist so chilling. Mikkelsen, on the other hand, brings Hannibal down to a more human level while also playing him as the god he believes he is.<\/p>\n<p>Finally, good news for gore fans: Hannibal leaves human totem poles behind this season and kicks it up a notch with human beehives, human mosaics and humans inside horses.<\/p>\n<p>And someone gets their face torn off, so look forward to that.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/FtDb89c7rWA?rel=0\" height=\"347\" width=\"616\" allowfullscreen=\"\" frameborder=\"0\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Bryan Fuller&#8217;s Hannibal Season 2 is more of the same, but there&#8217;s so much more of it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":43,"featured_media":65090,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"quote","meta":{"MSN_Categories":"Uncategorized","MSN_Publish_Option":false,"MSN_Is_Local_News":false,"MSN_Is_AIAC_Included":"Empty","MSN_Location":"[]","MSN_Add_Feature_Img_On_Top_Of_Post":false,"MSN_Has_Custom_Author":false,"MSN_Custom_Author":"","MSN_Has_Custom_Canonical_Url":false,"MSN_Custom_Canonical_Url":""},"categories":[2617,8],"tags":[2966],"acf":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/09\/5b20ce30a3dd42c9c2c13f0630667104.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65088"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/43"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65088"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65088\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65090"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.scifinow.co.uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}