Hannibal

[Memorex]

Any watchers?

For me, the best show television has seen in years, if not ever. It really threw me that television could be that good. Bryan Fuller put together a stellar production. The emotional investment that Hugh Dancy has to give every week is pretty phenomenal.

Laurence Fishburne has stepped it up the last several episodes and has had better dialog. Early on I thought they were under-utilizing him, but he's had a couple choice scenes with Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen lately.

Spoiler - but not much. Someone said this finale was particularly good because you got to see "Will" deal with not only what he didn't know, but now the truth. I thought that was a perfect observation.

I'm a big fan of the books and the movies, so I was not sure how this would sit with me. After the end of the first episode, I really liked Mads as Lecter and after a couple shows I was entirely engrossed by Hugh Dancy. And by episode four or five, I knew this was about the best fiction I've seen on TV.

The downside - watching TV like this has caused most other shows I like to pale, to fade out. Nearly every commercial for new stuff now looks entirely stupid. More so than before.

[Everett]

I will rent this when the season comes out on dvd. I chose not to watch new shows anymore
in fear of them getting cancelled ala do no harm (which was on the same network). Anyway
i hate summer because all my shows are off until the fall

However sleepy hollow on fox (yes fox) looks awesome.

[Memorex]

I will rent this when the season comes out on dvd. I chose not to watch new shows anymore
in fear of them getting cancelled ala do no harm (which was on the same network). Anyway
i hate summer because all my shows are off until the fall

However sleepy hollow on fox (yes fox) looks awesome.

I too have held off watching shows. This year I took a risk because of the smaller episode counts and watched 3 new shows. The Following, Bates Motel, and Hannibal. All good shows and fortunately all coming back. Hannibal was touch and go, but they also had offers from other networks to pick it up, so I wasn't too worried. It was more enjoyable after they renewed it though.

Hannibal is cheap in the US in that while it's an expensive show to make, the US rights are smaller than what the foreign markets are picking up.

I've been seeing scenes for "The Bridge" on FX. Looks interesting. But haven't decided if I'll watch.