Tien redenen waarom je Hannibal moet kijken

RDJ134 27 februari 2014 om 02:03 uur

Toen ik voor het eerst hoorde van de TV serie Hannibal was ik weer eens de asshole die liep te roepen hoe lame deze rip off wel niet zou zijn bla bla. Maar deze show bleek verdomd goed in elkaar te steken en qua Gore echt op eenzame hoogte te staan. Binnenkort begint seizoen 2 en daarom heeft de website Topless Robot deze top tien gemaakt. Mocht je de serie nog niet kennen, ga deze nu bekijken want je krijgt er geen spijt van.


3. The Villains!

Will on the trail of the "angel" making killer. Probably NSFW? Certainly not for the squeamish.

Hannibal is a show about serial murderers. Not just people who kill a series of people in tidy ways like poison or suffocation. Things get pretty gruesome, enough so that I was surprised when I realized it was a NBC show. People are chopped up, mutilated, and (of course) eaten. This is a prequel to all those movies with Hannibal already being in a cell (twenty year-old spoiler alert), and it turns out he's sort of a respectable guy right now. In fact, they play it pretty straight. So straight that halfway through season one I was starting to wonder if this was a prequel in the sense of Hannibal actually being on the side of the angels when things started. Maybe this show was his Phantom Menace and he was Jake Lloyd, except that this show didn't suck.

I was wrong. I mean, I was very wrong. Hannibal turns out to be the absolute worst of all of them, an uber-killer who trades out serial killer identities and shticks as the concept strikes him. But before you figure that out, you meet a whole bunch of other murderers that actually have understandable motivations, as that's mainly the point of the show. Will gets in their heads and so do you. Some of these killers are misunderstood, some are proud of themselves, some like to partially skin people while they're still alive and make them into "angels" with wings made of skin. They're all creepy as hell if not monsters in human flesh, like Dan Didio (Seriously. Who obsesses over killing Nightwing? BITE ME DIDIO!)



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