Hannibal was a groundbreaking genre-mixing TV show, filmed in an unusual way for its subject matter. The show began as a " killer of the week " style procedural drama with a gory twist, but leaned heavily into arthouse horror before becoming even more complex and twisted throughout season 3. Hannibal fits into the Hannibal Lecter stories after the movie Hannibal Rising .

The show follows existing characters from Thomas Harris' books, but puts a new twist on them, swapping the sex of some to add a new layer of interaction. While Hannibal is full of violence, blood, and gore, it is more intelligent than the average slasher show, and features one of Mads Mikkelsen's best performances of all time as Hannibal.

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Season 2, Episode 6

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