yourtinseltinkerbell:

ENDLESS LIST OF THINGS I SHIP: BRIAN/MICHAEL

The Brian and Michael show. It’s the greatest love story never told, trust me.

thelongwindedblues:

Goodbye.

Hannibal within the best tv shows of 2015

beaufortplace:

• “I’ve beaten this particular drum. I’ve beaten it hard. And here I am beating it once again. Unfortunately you’ve already failed me, you’ve failed us all as with your indifference or just your lack of presence each week. Hannibal has been cancelled. This truly spectacular show came to an end this year with its third season and although my antipathy towards you all is very real, I’m here once again to do gods work. Season 3 of the perpetually doomed TV series Hannibal was by far the shows best, and that’s saying something, that’s saying a lot. Probably knowing their fate, Bryan Fuller and team decided to go all out, embracing the madness of its central duo and indulging in every sick and twisted fantasy that bubbled beneath the surface of seasons 1 and 2. Finally reaching the ‘Red Dragon’ chapter of its story, Hannibal treated fans to everything they could ever want, providing a new spin on the books and films that came before while providing a closing statement on the tale that will never be forgotten by all those that watched. Finale’s don’t come much better than this, it’s was all we ever wanted, it was raw, it was brutal, it was perfect. If there was a rival for GoT for the best show on TV, Hannibal was it, and there is no doubt in my mind Hannibal‘s last season was the best TV had to offer in 2015. If I had physical awards to deal out I would be throwing them at the cast and crew of this show with tears in my eyes, begging them to somehow bring the show back. Hannibal doesn’t need a fourth season, its ending was glorious, but god damn will it be missed. There is a void that will never be filled because of it.”

- Flickeringmyth

• “Other series were more comprehensible, and nearly all were less gore-soaked, but none was as consistently innovative and sublime as Bryan Fuller’s take on Thomas Harris’s fiction. This visionary drama evoked German Expressionist cinema, glossy-pretentious art-house pictures like The Hunger and Zentropa, super-sexy fanfiction, and even experimental film. Long stretches surrendered to pure sensation, cutting images together in a free-associative rather than literal way. The third season of this lamentably canceled series was really two seasons: the first following Hannibal Lecter (Mads Mikkelsen) to Florence (the basic plot of the book Hannibal) and the second revisiting the plot of Red Dragon/Manhunter (with Richard Armitage as the terrifying yet pitiable Francis Dolarhyde). The climactic showdown between Dolarhyde, Hannibal, and the doctor’s nemesis/pupil/platonic love interest Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) was the most orgiastic display of choreography, music, lighting, and gore since the glory years of Miami Vice; Fuller might as well have reached through the screen and handed viewers a cigarette and a towel.”

- Vulture

• “In retrospect, it was always vaguely psychotic this show ever made it to NBC in the first place. I’m sure somebody along the chain of command decided that was a fit. The shocking thing about Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal wasn’t so much the violence, which many of us had to watch through our fingers, but the lushness of the killer-aesthete’s well-appointed abodes, the comfiness of his furniture, the finicky attention to detail in his culinary-cannibal lifestyle. Mads Mikkelsen has the predatory focus of any Top Chef contestant who ever made it past the first Quickfire. The third and final course was the most disturbing, with Hannibal living la dolce vita in Florence with Gillian Anderson, lecturing about Dante (he ate an Italian professor for dinner and stole his identity, a shrewd move in today’s academic job market) en route to his deadly rendezvous with Hugh Dancy’s Will and Laurence Fishburne’s Jack. Nice new Siouxsie song in the finale, too. Ciao, Hannibal.”

- Rolling Stone

• “NBC may have taken Hannibal off the menu, but Bryan Fuller and company made sure that this was a final course to savour. Taking us from Hannibal’s past to his fabulous fugitive life in Florence, all the way to the hunt for the Red Dragon, this third and final season saw the show at its very best: beautiful, dark, gruesome, scary, hilarious, daring and with a pair of dazzling performances at its core. Bravo.”

- Scifinow

• “Every year, this drama got better and better at creating nightmarish dreamscapes, to the point that this year, its mood of surreal fantasia seemed familiar and even comforting at times — and that in itself was a little unsettling. Few shows in TV history have been better at creating enthralling atmospheres; “Hannibal” doesn’t necessarily lay out stories as much as it weaves spells. From the lush interiors to the perfect clothes to the mouth-watering (and terrifyingly sourced) food, every element of this show is part of a seduction, which is exactly the point — and also the problem. Hannibal’s core idea — that one should live in devoted service to specific aesthetic and philosophical ideals — sounds good, but in practice it’s a brutal, sociopathic nightmare. When the pursuit of aesthetic ideals is not accompanied by compassion and empathy, well, you get Hannibal Lector. Though it faded a little in the home stretch, “Hannibal” once again found enthralling ways to explore a Jungian terrain of horror, beauty and twisted love. It was beautiful while it lasted.”

- Variety 

• “Bryan Fuller knows how to make a visually striking show. But on Hannibal, Fuller reveals his skill for beautifying the disgusting: he is the figurative lovechild of Stanley Kubrick and David Lynch, with a knack for an eerie atmosphere. Blood doesn’t splatter in Hannibal: it oozes, often artfully across a snowy field. Maryland and Virginia look brittle in the eternally wintry light. In between the silences and meaningful stares, Brian Reitzell’s soundtrack beats out a rich cacophony of discordant, industrial percussion. All together, it makes for an uneasy night of TV.”

- The Guardian

candlewinds:

Whether we see each other next weekend, or next month…never again. It doesn’t matter. It’s only time.

dragoncharming:

ziyal teaching art classes for the cardassian war orphans left on bajor, using her knowledge of both cardassian and bajoran art forms to help them process their experiences and create and explore their identities at the start of this new era

redversaillesrose:

the most glorious thing about the vampire chronicles is that no matter what your ship is, it’s cannon

paulpak:

the saddest feeling ever is when you finish a show because you watched all of the episodes too quickly and you just want to stay inside that world for a little bit longer, but you can’t