[ SECRET POST #5971 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5971 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.


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04. [SPOILERS for The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel]




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05. [WARNING for Andrew Tate and associated discussion]




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06. [WARNING for discussion of child abuse]




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07. [WARNING for discussion of transphobia, antisemitism]

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Comments

Re: Based on 3

[kaishi]

There's no definitive for or against: but I am convinced that Hannibal in the tv show is literally The Devil.

Re: Based on 3

[(Anonymous)]

Oh, please explain

Re: Based on 3

[kaishi]

What got me first thinking it was the flashback scene with Bedelia. When Hannibal comes in after the action is over he says "I can help you, if you ask me to." He won't do anything unless explicitly requested, like a deal with the devil.

Once that thought was in my mind, I started noticing other things, especially on re-watch. He absolutely believes in god, but doesn't seem to respect him. "God's terrific." "Killing must feel good to god, too. He does it all the time." "I collect church collapses." At one point a drawing of the devil is superimposed over Hannibal's face. The show seems to take place always in winter (Doylist explanation: they had to film in the off season; Watsonian: supernatural shit is going on here).

He manages to have a thriving psychiatric career, consult with the FBI, have dinner parties, have social outings, keep Miriam Lass alive, keep his house immaculate, cook all his own food, compose for the harpsichord, draw realistic sketches, AND stalk and kill his prey? Dude has more than 24 hrs in the day. The Tree in the Parking Lot display alone would have taken more than one person to set up, just from the weight. How did he do that??? And have no one notice???

Will gets stabbed with a knife and spends months recovering (never fully recovers from the stab to the shoulder pre-canon). Hannibal seems to get over his bullet wound to the stomach in about fifteen minutes. He also walks away with only a little difficulty after getting the absolute shit beat out of him by Jack. They both survive going over that cliff....

Someone could probably write a book about it, there's so much going on in that show.

Re: Based on 3

[(Anonymous)]

I believe Mads Mikkelsen has said he played it as if Hannibal was the devil. And yeah, I do remember a lot of discussion at the time, how for a particular display, he definitely could not have enough time to fully freeze a human body, let alone all the work in cutting it up and displaying it the way he did.

Also, the fact that Baltimore is apparently chock full of artistic serial killers. And some of the characters are just extraordinarily resilient, like Dr Chilton somehow survived three different things he shouldn't have. There's magical stuff happening in that show for sure.

Re: Based on 3

[(Anonymous)]

AYRT

Oooo that's creepy. Thanks for explaining. I have the DVDs for all three seasons and I'm wondering if I'll draw the same conclusion. I haven't watched them yet, but this show looked like it would be right up my alley (production values alone and how to destroy angels music in the trailers).

Re: Based on 3

[kaishi]

It's a gorgeous show. Be prepared for a tonal flip around episode 7 or 8 in season 1. It was originally going to be a procedural horror, but Mads Mikkelson came in like, I'm gonna play Hannibal as falling in love at first sight. And then Bryan rushed to rewrite just about everything while they were filming. So the rest of the show is more Gothic Romance. (Capital "R" Romance, not bodice-ripper-romance.)

My best friend actually just started watching it after years of me talking about it. She made the frankly horrible decision to binge it and had to take a break after season 2 because it is A Lot. Make sure to watch the after credits scene on the finale.

Enjoy!