Hannibal: Hannibal the Cannibal

Hannibal the Cannibal: Hannibal, loosely adapted from Thomas Harriss series of Red Dragon novels featuring Hannibal the Cannibal, the brilliant psychiatrist and unapologetic meat-eater Dr. Hannibal Lecter, is rewriting the book on tightly wound, slow-burning TV thrillers. , according to Times Colonist. Moody and introspective where The Following was loud and deliberately over-the-top to the point of being ludicrous Hannibal is a TV oddity. As prime-time dramas go, it looks, sounds and feels as if it belongs on a cable channel, not a mainstream broadcast network where crime dramas more often tend to look and sound like cookie-cutter variations on the same old franchise idea: CSI meets NCIS in a Law Order: SVU world. Every so often, a seemingly derivative version of a tried-and-true TV genre manages to serve a fresh take on an old idea. With a week to go before its first-season finale Hannibal started late, in midseason this cat-and-mouse tale of a damaged FBI detective and a seemingly endless parade of deranged, neurotic and seriously disturbed psychologists, psychoanalysts, psychiatrists and just plain weirdos has been really good of late. (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.