Hannibal

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Season 3
  • Network: NBC
  • Series Premiere Date: Apr 4, 2013
Season #: 3, 2, 1
User Score
7.8

Generally favorable reviews- based on 399 Ratings

User score distribution:
  1. Positive: 310 out of 399
  2. Mixed: 28 out of 399
  3. Negative: 61 out of 399
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  1. debie
    Aug 31, 2015
    4
    Season 3: "The novelty of Hannibal Lecter has waned." Trying to be artsy and clever has made the first half of season 3 pretentious and extremely slow. I have been able to fast forward through chunks of filming where the camera lingers on snails...seriously, or people eating in slow motion, or overly creative ways of doing flashbacks. The dialog is getting so ostentatious and overblownSeason 3: "The novelty of Hannibal Lecter has waned." Trying to be artsy and clever has made the first half of season 3 pretentious and extremely slow. I have been able to fast forward through chunks of filming where the camera lingers on snails...seriously, or people eating in slow motion, or overly creative ways of doing flashbacks. The dialog is getting so ostentatious and overblown that it is confusing and irritating. The cat and mouse game was getting a bit boring and I was eager for a climax to begin to percolate. The season finally started to slowly pick up around episodes 4 or 5, and by episode 7 we get some payoff, and then episode 8 gets us back to the basics with Will consulting Jack on another horrible serial murder, The Great Red Dragon... I have a few more episodes to go to finish the season... but I'm basically done with this presumptuous & tedious show.… Expand
  2. imthenoob
    Aug 31, 2015
    4
    They lose it in Season 3 but trying to wrap up the whole Hannibal plot before starting the Red Dragon. The Hannibal plot was very disappointing and didn't really fit the formula of the show. It started and finished terribly. As for the Red Dragon plot, It had a lot of potential but was poorly executed. Mainly because it was too loyal to the book/film and lacked originality. Also, Hated howThey lose it in Season 3 but trying to wrap up the whole Hannibal plot before starting the Red Dragon. The Hannibal plot was very disappointing and didn't really fit the formula of the show. It started and finished terribly. As for the Red Dragon plot, It had a lot of potential but was poorly executed. Mainly because it was too loyal to the book/film and lacked originality. Also, Hated how they turned Hannibal into a total chump this season after being a bad ass all of season 2. As for that ending, Very gay but it suites the show's gay sub-text.… Expand
  3. MihaiR
    Aug 8, 2015
    6
    well, the last season finally ...started with the 7th episode. The first 6 episodes were horrible. If I want real great movies I can watch Tarkovsky, Bergman, Kurosawa etc and not what the "creators" did in the first part of the season.
  4. ChrRome
    Jan 15, 2016
    4
    Everything wrong with this season can be summed up by what Bryan Fuller says to any new director for the show: "You are making a pretentious art film".
    While Season 1 and 2 of Hannibal were incredible, Season 3 went full blown pretentious with about 5-10 minutes per episode being slow-mo closeups of wine being poured or blood slowly dripping. The other 40 minutes is mostly comprised of    Everything wrong with this season can be summed up by what Bryan Fuller says to any new director for the show: "You are making a pretentious art film".
    While Season 1 and 2 of Hannibal were incredible, Season 3 went full blown pretentious with about 5-10 minutes per episode being slow-mo closeups of wine being poured or blood slowly dripping. The other 40 minutes is mostly comprised of two characters alternating whispers of short sentences that you would be more likely to find in a Shakespeare play than ever hear a real human say.    … Expand
  5. vaughtex
    Oct 2, 2015
    5
    Definitely a series of two halves. The first half is frankly dull. Poor pacing and little action compared to the previous two seasons, with the exception of the parts with Mason Verger, which are gripping (compared to the rest). Despite this, the set up was interesting and the constant psycho-analitical dialogue is almost shakespearian. You can see why it passed people by and was canned,Definitely a series of two halves. The first half is frankly dull. Poor pacing and little action compared to the previous two seasons, with the exception of the parts with Mason Verger, which are gripping (compared to the rest). Despite this, the set up was interesting and the constant psycho-analitical dialogue is almost shakespearian. You can see why it passed people by and was canned, based on the first 5 episodes. As it progresses, the setting changes and things get mildly interesting with the tooth fairy, but overall the series lacked the cohesion of the first two. It feels disjointed, a bunch of scenes cobbled together, rather than a tight narrative. I wanted to love it like the other two, but it falls flat. The performances are mostly good, the scenes with Hannibal are, as you'd expect superb. But when the other characters lack any sense of chemistry. It feels like a bit of a missed opportunity and a bit of a sad end to what was a brilliant TV show. Maybe a VOD service will pick it up and give it a new lease of life.… Expand
  6. Bo33y
    Jun 5, 2015
    6
    Yawn the premier episode was utterly boring. The cinematic's, music, backgrounds amazing but the plot is tediously falling asleep.

    Giving a clear idea of how this show will proceed, pathetically to the prior seasons which will be unsurpassed in their effect. Kills to gain place, kills to keep place, missing people yadda yadda the doctor surprisingly becoming much less than a victim.    Yawn the premier episode was utterly boring. The cinematic's, music, backgrounds amazing but the plot is tediously falling asleep.

    Giving a clear idea of how this show will proceed, pathetically to the prior seasons which will be unsurpassed in their effect.

    Kills to gain place, kills to keep place, missing people yadda yadda the doctor surprisingly becoming much less than a victim. Somewhere else there will be a patzy    … Expand

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#18 Best TV Season of 2015
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#34 Most Discussed TV Season of 2015

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Metascore
84

Universal acclaim - based on 15 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 13 out of 15
  2. Mixed: 2 out of 15
  3. Negative: 0 out of 15
  1. The Wrap
    Reviewed by: Deborah Day
    Jun 4, 2015
    80
    Despite the audience-building challenges Fuller sometimes throws in the path of his monster--“Il Monstro,” the Italians call him--it’s hard to hate him; Hannibal Lecter is one of the most interesting characters you hope to never meet.
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  2. Vox.com
    Reviewed by: Emily VanDerWerff
    Jun 4, 2015
    100
    Where other TV shows avoid the weight of all that death, Hannibal turns the horror into opera--bold and beautiful and over-the-top and opulent.
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  3. Under The Radar
    Reviewed by: Kyle Turner
    Jun 4, 2015
    95
    The series has also been acquainted with theologically bent ideas, but the trajectory points to the series' characters becoming manifestations of Biblical themes, concepts, and binaries. That they're able to get away with such hard to sell content and pull it off with such aplomb is proof yet that Hannibal, so often a cut above the rest, gets away with delicious murder.
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