SPOILERS
My moment by moment 'reviews' are back, where I just type crap as I'm watching the show.
As you can tell by the title, I'm ecstatic that this show is back. It's the best damn show on TV. We start off with a fight to the death between Jack and Hannibal. So... the opening is spoiling the whole season? I could watch Mads vault over a counter and body check himself into a door over and over again. It seems that Jack gets the upper hand, but then Hannibal does his sneaky Hannibal thing, and stabs him in the neck.
Twelve weeks earlier. Ah, okay. Hannibal is preparing a meal for Jack that looks sooooo damn pretty. Too pretty to eat. Hannibal mentions the Japanese art form of Kaiseki (and we have a title), where food is all about appearances. Much like Hannibal himself. Jack says that he has to investigate Hannibal because Will did point the finger at him, and Hannibal says that it's for their best interests. I'm sure he's got a trick up his sleeve - like stabbing Jack in the neck twelve weeks in the future, and trapping him in the wine room.
Awwww, it's nice to see Will in a tranquil, nice place. Too bad he's dreaming and a stag is ever watching, and he's really in a crazy-ass cage in a row of cages being analyzed by Chilton. Doesn't the Baltimore mental hospital have any REGULAR cells? He refuses to talk to Chilton. Wise choice on more than one level.
Hey, Cynthia Nixon and Gillian Anderson - former redheads that are now blondes. Cynthia Nixon is reading Jack and Alana the riot act because this whole thing is a very black eye for the FBI. And Gillian Anderson is telling Hannibal that Will's request for a visit is Will trying to manipulate him, and Hannibal wanting to go is Hannibal manipulating him. Hannibal misses Will, and all Will can hear is Hannibal's voice in his head and omg all the angsty feeeeeeeeelllllssss. Bestill my homoerotic loving heart. Will says that they are not friends, and the light of friendship could never touch them in a million years, they still can't stop eye-fucking each other. I'm just so glad it's back.
And then we have some poor city workers that think they're investigating a smashed up beaver dam. Then then think that they're going to find some smelly dead beavers (awwwwwwww no), but then they find a dead body, and the poor guy ends up ripping off a chunk of its face. Turns out that it's more than one. It's a body dam. Full of failed resin models of humans. At first I thought that Hannibal was investigating his own murders (which is probably a serial killer's dream), but he wouldn't keep the bodies - he'd devour them.
Hannibal then gives Bedelia permission to reveal information about their sessions. She thinks this is less than a good idea, because she knows that it's essentially blackmail. Hannibal will show transparency to Jack, but that means that Bedelia will have to lie for Hannibal. Aside from the brilliant relationship between Hannibal and Will, Hannibal and Bedelia's interactions are my fave on the show. There's so much mystery around them, and I really want to know more about the patient that attacked her and forced her into retirement, and what Hannibal did for her. She says that Jack does not know what Hannibal is capable of, and he unblinkingly says that neither does she. Their reactions to this conversation are very different. Bedelia's face shows worry and the movement of her brow muscles, as well as swallowing nervously. Hannibal shows no motion, no blinking. His eyes as inscrutable as a cat or shark's. The lack of motion from Mads (as well as Anthony Hopkins before him) is what *makes* Hannibal. It gives him a lack of humanity. There are no wasted motions, no wasted reactions or human feelings.
Awww, Alana is taking care of Will's dogs. Alana wants to get him out so he can go home to his dogs, but he keeps firing his FBI lawyers. She wants to use the defense that he didn't know what he was doing because of unconsciousness due to his encephalitis. He asks her to do regression hypnosis so he can try to regain his memories. The metronome that she uses is very similar to the pendulum that always happened when Will went into the mind of the killer. And of course, Chilton is listening into their conversation like the scumbag that he is. Will imagines that he's at a dinner table with stag Hannibal, and Abigail's ear is on his plate.
And, we then see a glimpse of our baddie. And he's totally a creep in a subway. "You have nice skin," is something you should never say to someone if you don't want to seem like a weirdo, unless you have actually known that person for a certain amount of time. Especially in a subway. Katz goes to get Will's opinion on the missing persons that might be part of the case, without Jack knowing, and Will sees that it's a color palette. The Pantone Ripper!
Dinner time at the mental hospital. Man, when Hannibal finally winds up there, it must be hell for a gourmand such as himself, because the food has ZERO presentation. Will starts to eat, and has a flashback of Hannibal forcing the ear down his throat, complete with an inner camera giving us an intimate view of Will's (or someone's) esophagus. He understandably coughs up the bite of steak.
Alana and Jack both wind up at Will's house with poor Winston. Jack wants to be convinced that Will isn't the monster that they're thinking he is. Alana points out that if he were a complete psychopath, he wouldn't be afraid of his memories (this is true). Jack goes to visit Will, but he can't handle Will's constant talking about Hannibal.
And remember that poor dude with the nice skin from the subway? Yeah, he's having an even shittier time than Will, as he wakes up covered in a sticky resin coating. And surrounded by dead bodies in a color gradient. He starts screaming. He's right to do it.
Yayyyyy! So glad it's back.
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