‘Hannibal’ Season 3 Episode 2 Recap: “Primavera”

Hannibal: “I forgive you, Will. Will you forgive me?” Our brief, relatively bloodless vacation in Europe with Hannibal and Bedelia has ended, and now it’s time to see what happened in the very bloody aftermath of Hannibal’s exit from Baltimore. Will Graham wakes up in the hospital and is greeted by Abigail, who also survived thanks to […]

‘Hannibal’ Season 3 Episode 1 Recap: “Antipasto”

Hannibal is back in highly stylized form, with shiny new locales: Paris and Florence, which is where Hannibal Lecter and Bedelia have scampered off to after he went and practically killed everyone else we know and love. “Antipasto” is even more abstract than the usual Hannibal fare, bouncing from Hannibal’s present-day masquerade as a harmless museum curator […]

“Hannibal” SDCC Panel: Hunt For Hannibal Lecter Begins Season 3

Why is anybody leaving the room right now? NBC’s Hannibal is part of the holy triumvirate of TV shows right now (Orphan Black and Game of Thrones complete the trifecta). We get a recap of Hannibal, and the video just gave me goosebumps. SO GOOD. And it has a glimpse of season 3: Hannibal on a plane, sipping champagne WITH […]

‘Hannibal’ Season 2 Episode 13 Recap: “Mizumono”

The best network show on TV has reached its second season conclusion, and as you’d expect, it’s a gory yet beautiful, brutal, perfect episode. Mizumono is not a reference to a Japanese sporting good company (that’d be Mizuno), but instead refers to the finale of the Kaiseki, the traditional multi-course tableau that Bryan Fuller and NBC […]

Hannibal 2×12 “Tome-Wan” Recap

Tome-wan is a miso-based soup or a vegetable stew served over rice, apart of the traditional Kaiseki feast. Bryan Fuller and company have presented a gory, grisly and gruesome banquet in the form of this second season, and “Tome-Wan” is the most disturbing, scariest episode of the series yet. I caught myself scribbling down almost […]

Hannibal 2×11 “Ko No Mono” Recap

“Ko No Mono,” as all of the other episodes in Hannibal‘s second season, is a part of the Kaiseki, a traditional, Japanese multi-course dinner. Ko No Mono is a dish made of pickled vegetables. My brain feels like pickled vegetables after this episode, and I mean that in a good way. The feathered stag topples over, […]

Hannibal 2×10 “Naka-Choko” Recap

Naka-choko refers to a palate cleanser as a part of the Kaiseki, oftentimes a light, acidic soup, if you believe Wikipedia. I’m not sure if I would call this episode a palate cleanser. Instead, the Hannibal team continues to pile on the crazy, the conflict and take Will Graham to places that may be irretrievable. Last […]

Hannibal 2×09 “Shiizikana” Recap

Only four episodes remain of Hannibal‘s second feast after this past Friday’s sumptuous “Shiizikana,” referring to a dish added to the festivities, like a hot pot. Considering how many added elements and characters have been folded onto the dinner table over the past couple weeks, the title makes sense. We open, as we usually do, on […]

Hannibal 2×07 “Yakimono” Recap

This week on our Japanese culinary adventure, “Yakimono” (or “fired thing”) refers to grilled, pan-fried dishes served in distinctive ceramics. Oftentimes, the food (primarily meat, shellfish, vegetables and seafood…so most kinds) is skewered or grilled over an open fire in a wire net.

Hannibal 2×06 “Futamono” Recap

A “Futamono” refers to a lidded dish, primarily a soup, or a red rice ball in some sort of sauce. Hannibal blows the lid clean off in this episode. Hannibal is a fast healer. Just a week after almost dying at the hands of a murdering psychopath orderly (acting on orders from Will Graham), Hannibal is […]