The hugely popular NBC series, Hannibal had its fans by the hook as the protagonists danced around each other in the eternal will-they-won’t-they plot. What began as a tense but fast-paced game of cat and mouse accelerated to a bloody crescendo until good and evil coalesced into a morally gray genre. To begin with, the subject of morality in Hannibal has never been debated. But what Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy brought to the screen went beyond those binaries.
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NBC’s underrated genius Hannibal (2013-15)
Hannibal tells the story of Dr. Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) before his capture and eventual escape in Anthony Hopkins’ film. Serve as a prequel to the award-winning film Thesilenceofthelambs, the series follows the calm before the storm as Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist with a taste for criminals, gets tangled up in the game alongside FBI profiler Will Graham (Hugh Dancy). Their story then follows an arc of suppressed violent tendencies and the undercurrent of something akin to a twisted non-platonic relationship between the protagonists.
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After its short stint of three seasons on the network and its totally unjustified end, the Hannibal The cast, crew, and fan base are still waiting for their return for a season 4. The series had suffered the same fate as the other popular on-screen devil, Lucifer during his time on television. However, after the deluge of cries and petitions, Netflix resumed Lucifer‘s story to give it a successful run on the streaming platform. If the trend were to follow, perhaps fanbase cheers could also bring the cannibalistic series back at some point in the future.
Hannibal Showrunner Shares Season 4 Vision Board
Hannibal Season 4, according to showrunner Bryan Fuller, would focus on a lot of tropes, but would mostly focus on the stories of the two women caught up in their husbands’ game. While bringing Margot Verger and Alana Bloom to the fore provides an even more intrinsically woven plot, it doesn’t diminish the arc of the series’ leads. Mikkelsen and Dancy’s characters would resume their relationship years after the events of the Season 3 finale.
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While this leaves a range of open plots and unanswered questions, it also allows the series to consequently deepen the narrative to bring out the transformative changes that ultimately lead to Anthony Hopkins’ Hannibal era. Bryan Fuller claims,
“We are ready and willing to go. I talk to Mads Mikkelsen and Hugh Dancy pretty regularly, so they’re both dying to come back and you know, it’s not just about the murderous husbands, it’s also about the murderous wives. Katharine Isabelle and Caroline Dhavernas are just as big in the Season 4 story as Hannibal and Will. So, I hope we will have the opportunity to do so. I don’t look at my watch because I think we’ll pick up the story every time we do and I haven’t given up hope.
However, it remains to be seen if, without the active involvement of the show’s mainstays and fan requests, the network will be ready to bring them back. Since Mads Mikkelsen has gained even more popular status in Hollywood with his run in MCU and the fantastic beasts franchise, it will pay off for NBC to entice segregated fandoms with the series’ highly anticipated revival.
With a 92% RT review rating, Hannibal is currently available to stream on Prime Video.
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