I started out enjoying Hannibal thoroughly as a psychologically rewarding take on the character, and the prospect of an engaging cat and mouse game between Will and Lector. Over the course of three seasons I saw that promise dissolve into a gore-full shockfest, which I did enjoy in the way shows like that are enjoyable, but I had hoped this show would become more.The writers did away with the cat and mouse eventually and made everyone around Hannibal so horribly inept that it was hard to imagine his Brilliance let alone see it (except as a chef/connoisseur). They repeatedly introduced good characters and proceeded to fumble around with their story arcs, reducing the show to a intertwined brooding incoherent mess.It was interesting to see how the Book and Movies were referenced and subsumed, enough to make me go revisit them which was an enjoyable indulgence. But by the third act all semblance of a story or structure were cast aside for egregious overindulgent psychological musings of macabre characters that you just wished would shut up already, in an attempt to make the writing appear intelligent I suppose. The promise it held in the initial season set up the finale to be a disappointment.Amazing background score, some great visual work, good but faltering storytelling and direction. I would rate Season I at 9/10 for the immense promise it held, Season II 7/10 for it still kept me interested, and Season III a 5/10 for what a shadow of itself the show became.

As a student of psychology in love with the phenomena of perverse structure (a.k.a sociopaths), the Hannibal series - which I had already begun to watch in 2013, the year of launch - drew my attention. After watching two other series on mental phenomena, Mindhunter and The Alienist - the two, also, investigating criminals - the series directed by Michael Rymes was next on the list.The relationship maintained by the investigator and murderer was able to provoke me to various feelings, mainly anxiety.Hannibal, as Will was lead to understand, placed himself in the prision, where he would not fail to be seen. Hence, we can understand his surrender as an attempt by the serial killer to curb his deeds. Hannibal ended lives and gave up his own. "You know where I am," Hannibal says incarcerated. The final episode is of great mastery. "That's what I wanted for you - and for me," adds Hannibal. Since Will was already unable to live a life in which Hannibal did not remember his own evil, and his absurd acts, he participated in the plot with his rival - conscious The romance between a pervert, the mental disorder, and the common investigator touches us as he denounces us dark desires and interests. As Freud says, perversion is the negative of neurosis: what the neurotic fantasizes, the perverse does in fact. Hannibal takes Will, during all the plots, to acts. The last act, the most awaited, finally realized. Will embodies all humanity, doubt, fear, hesitation, madness. But it also borrows from Hannibal, which builds during the plot, certainty. Certainty this staged in a last act, that also causes its death.

After the end of Dexter, Hannibal was the ´rebound series´ who brought the dark humor that I fancy. It is here again about a serial killer that we are following step by step, in a dark ambience, with the suspense of knowing who will be the next dish. Although the photography is excellent, I however did not manage to get attached to any character. So I did not watch the last season...

I rarely give 10 out of 10 stars. As a matter of fact, I only did this 2 times before "Hannibal".10 stars... What a truly wonderful show! Brutal yet sensitive. Gruesome yet artful. Highly intellectual, yet a careful homage to human fallacy. Love and hate depicted as an eternal dance of indistinguishable partners. IMPRESSIVE soundtrack, surrealistic, intricate plot, dialogues covering psychology, philosophy, art and history...And last but not least: breathtaking performances of Mads Mikkelsen, Hugh Dancy, Gillian Anderson, Rutina Wesley and so many more...