This Episode begins with Will and Hannibal, Will wants to know the truth from Hannibal. Will wakes up, it was all just a dream. A trucker has been killed on a really cruel way, by a wolf or a bear. The killer striked again, he killed a man and a woman in cold blood. Will discovered that the killer isn't a animal, he wants to be an animal. Hannibal visits Randall. Randall is the killer. Randall got interviewed by Jack and Will. Will killed Randall. Amazing Episode of Hannibal Season 2, such a masterpiece from Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen. These two actors are so good in their roles! I hope for more and more!
4 Reviews
The Man Beast [8.5/10]
panagiotis199318 August 2023
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My Reaction / Review for Hannibal Season 2 Episode 9: Episode 8 was great and I gave it a rating of 8.5/10. Once again Jack enjoys Hannibal's human meat. How many times Jack have eaten human meat at this point, lost count. Wow, what was that thing that ate the truck driver? This new killer is an animal-human hybrid? At least he wants to be able to kill the way an animal would kill. I wonder when the Chesapeake Ripper aka Hannibal will kill again. The fact that Hannibal knows the killer, a former patient makes it more interesting. Hannibal is manipulating Randall just like he does with everybody else. Hannibal sent Randall to kill Will but failed, now they are even. Awesome episode, my rating is 8.5/10.
Man Is The Only Creature That Kills To K...K.. Kill.
wandernn1-81-6832743 August 2020
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So this episode begins with another of Will's visions, of Lecter tied to a tree, about to have his head ripped off by a horsey. We see the STAG once again, in all of its glory.
And then a glorious Lecter Omelette prepared for himself and Crawford. Crawford simply cannot drag himself away from Lecter's dining table.
And then a truck driver gets murdered right on top of his cab. Gory!!!
+1 Star once again for opening sequences...very nice.
Back to Lecter and Graham in the stables, with the rope. Haha!
We move on to Graham interviewing Peter in Jail, about this new killer that they are treating as a bear or a wolf. But why would the FBI be brought in in a killing by a bear or a wolf, hmmm?? Unlike the X-files, this show doesn't even bother to introduce any hypotheticals on why the FBI is brought in on cases, they just are. I mean Graham apparently uses his talent on every murder perpetrated in the United States.
-1 Star for this episode, because this is the first time I've really thought about this plot hole which really is in the series as a whole.
Will gets a visit from an unexpected guest. One of Lecter's patients. They share a whiskey.
At the end of the episode a great set of confrontations.
+1 Star for the end sequences
Some minor hiccups in this episode, 6/10. Even Steven.
And then a glorious Lecter Omelette prepared for himself and Crawford. Crawford simply cannot drag himself away from Lecter's dining table.
And then a truck driver gets murdered right on top of his cab. Gory!!!
+1 Star once again for opening sequences...very nice.
Back to Lecter and Graham in the stables, with the rope. Haha!
We move on to Graham interviewing Peter in Jail, about this new killer that they are treating as a bear or a wolf. But why would the FBI be brought in in a killing by a bear or a wolf, hmmm?? Unlike the X-files, this show doesn't even bother to introduce any hypotheticals on why the FBI is brought in on cases, they just are. I mean Graham apparently uses his talent on every murder perpetrated in the United States.
-1 Star for this episode, because this is the first time I've really thought about this plot hole which really is in the series as a whole.
Will gets a visit from an unexpected guest. One of Lecter's patients. They share a whiskey.
At the end of the episode a great set of confrontations.
+1 Star for the end sequences
Some minor hiccups in this episode, 6/10. Even Steven.
The Episode Where All The Wheels Come Off
simmans16 April 2021
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The Hannibal series, to this point, was a weird mash-up of premium cable drama and cheap network shlock--mixing, maybe, the best elements of Breaking Bad with the worst elements of CSI. Like, "Here are some great characters, and we'll give them good dialogue, and then we'll wrap it all in the stupidest plot-of-the-week as we possibly can. How about if there's a killer who puts wasps in people's bottoms? Or a totem pole that stalks its victims using echolocation? What if one of the main characters became good friends with a tiny sardine?"
In Season Two, I think, one writer looked at another writer and said, "I don't think we will ever be able to make sense out of half the crap we've pooped into the narrative," and the other writer said, "You're correct, so let's agree to never try to make any of it make sense, and we can just throw all logic and believability out the window!" Then they high-fived one another.
That pact happened just before those writers penned this very episode... about a werewolf. Of course the werewolf is just a man with an Iron Man/cave bear costume, and of course he's also a former patient of Dr Lecter, and of course Dr Lecter will coerce the werewolf to attack Will Graham, and of course Will Graham will murder the werewolf, rape his corpse, mutilate it, arrange it into a rape-werewolf-corpse statue, and... Wait, what?
Later, it will have turned out that Jack Crawford, at the FBI, sanctioned this insanity, in a rather labyrinthine scheme to possibly get himself eaten at the planned end-of-season dinner party, so you know there is no chance this series will ever remotely resemble real life ever again. And it doesn't!
Shows like this require a suspension of disbelief, no matter how well written they are. (How did Walter White get poison into Brock? Is Sherlock Holmes a confirmed psychic? How can 989 serial killers be at large in Baltimore at the exact same time?) but Hannibal passes into the realm of dream-logic parody just past the midpoint of its total series run.
From here onward, I believe there are seven characters who will each die four times (not counting the four previous characters who each died seven times). Time will cease to have any meaning at all (not that it did before, exactly, given that killers can compose exquisite corpse installations in public buildings in under twenty minutes). Any sort of investigative protocols are chucked out the window by cops on TWO continents. We will even meet a young adult, coming up, who has been in Hannibal's employ for three or four decades. (she is also a skilled assassin, despite having lived in a secluded Lithuanian tool shed.) I'm all for trippy comedy-horror... Hannibal plays like high camp, by the end. Nonsensical, absurd, over produced, hilarious. The problem is that it didn't begin that way. The shift came at this halfway point, this very episode, when the writers finally realized they couldn't bring it all together, and decided to not even try. In a way, it would have been better if they'd taken that route from the very beginning, rather than pretending like they were crafting a narrative.
That pact happened just before those writers penned this very episode... about a werewolf. Of course the werewolf is just a man with an Iron Man/cave bear costume, and of course he's also a former patient of Dr Lecter, and of course Dr Lecter will coerce the werewolf to attack Will Graham, and of course Will Graham will murder the werewolf, rape his corpse, mutilate it, arrange it into a rape-werewolf-corpse statue, and... Wait, what?
Later, it will have turned out that Jack Crawford, at the FBI, sanctioned this insanity, in a rather labyrinthine scheme to possibly get himself eaten at the planned end-of-season dinner party, so you know there is no chance this series will ever remotely resemble real life ever again. And it doesn't!
Shows like this require a suspension of disbelief, no matter how well written they are. (How did Walter White get poison into Brock? Is Sherlock Holmes a confirmed psychic? How can 989 serial killers be at large in Baltimore at the exact same time?) but Hannibal passes into the realm of dream-logic parody just past the midpoint of its total series run.
From here onward, I believe there are seven characters who will each die four times (not counting the four previous characters who each died seven times). Time will cease to have any meaning at all (not that it did before, exactly, given that killers can compose exquisite corpse installations in public buildings in under twenty minutes). Any sort of investigative protocols are chucked out the window by cops on TWO continents. We will even meet a young adult, coming up, who has been in Hannibal's employ for three or four decades. (she is also a skilled assassin, despite having lived in a secluded Lithuanian tool shed.) I'm all for trippy comedy-horror... Hannibal plays like high camp, by the end. Nonsensical, absurd, over produced, hilarious. The problem is that it didn't begin that way. The shift came at this halfway point, this very episode, when the writers finally realized they couldn't bring it all together, and decided to not even try. In a way, it would have been better if they'd taken that route from the very beginning, rather than pretending like they were crafting a narrative.
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