15 Reasons You Should Watch ‘Hannibal’ On Netflix
It’s a gruesome show about cops and killers, but also a tender love story about cops and killers
1. It’s a prequel to Silence of the Lambs but everybody is sexy. Stream it now.
2. Sensitive men! Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham is a fragile genius FBI agent who can think like a psychopath. He’s very vulnerable and brilliant and that’s why Hannibal wants to snuggle and/or smother him.
3. If you like beautiful and macabre fever-dream sequences then, wow, Hannibal is for you. There is at least one stunningly fucked-up visual per episode, and that’s a John DeVore Guarantee™.
4. I’m mad for Mads Mikkelsen. The hunky Danish actor’s Hannibal “The Cannibal” Lecter isn’t Anthony Hopkin’s campy, slow-moving middle-aged menace: he’s graceful and savage, cerebral but a real physical threat.
5. Bryan Fuller’s darkly erotic Hannibal isn’t better than Michael Mann’s sleek 1986 thriller Manhunter, which also introduces us to super FBI profiler Will Graham. Both Hannibal and Manhunter are excellent for different reasons, one hot and bloody, the other cold and bloodless. Manhunter also features the most underrated Lector: Succession’s Brian Cox. He’s a paunchy, smirking delight.
