Previously on Hannibal

Such a dark show. Obviously the notion of killing and eating folks isn't the nicest, most cheery, of plots but everything about that show is sorrow. Jack loses his wife, Abigail loses her family, Will practically loses everything (except Winston of course), hell even my favorite character Beverly Katz gets axed. There's almost no levity to the show after the first season but somehow it doesn't become melancholic. There is no fatigue that you often experience when movies and tv shows try to be edgy and dark by simply having the characters brood in there own despair. No, this show differs in having them live and die in it just like real life. Obviously, most people aren't hunting down a man without a hint of empathy as he calmly murders all those who annoy him but we do have our own trials. Our own demons that keep us up at night. This show lets the characters accept that loss and despair inevitable but also that perseverance is the key to survival. The come to blows with what tears them down, for better or worse, but they never give up. I think that's what distinguishes this constant drama filled show from others like it. This show accepts darkness and bears it without begrudging it. It bears it honestly and frankly. It event allows characters to slip into it, to succumb to their own irrational fears and lets them die in their.