{"id":85927,"date":"2014-06-29T06:46:44","date_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:46:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=85927"},"modified":"2014-06-29T06:47:48","modified_gmt":"2014-06-29T10:47:48","slug":"hannibal-the-ridiculous-and-the-sublime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sheilaomalley.com\/?p=85927","title":{"rendered":"Hannibal<\/i>: The Ridiculous and the Sublime"},"content":{"rendered":"

You spoke. I listened. I watched the first four episodes of Hannibal<\/i> over the last couple of days. It has everything I adore:
\n1. serial killers
\n2. blood splatters
\n3. psychobabble about psychopaths
\n4. Laurence Fishburne (everyone is awesome, but I’m just happy when he shows up in anything)
\n5. Lots of emotional angst
\n6. Broad-stroke character development: the house full of stray dogs, the exquisite and grotesque cooking, the corkscrew curls of the tabloid journalist, the mini skirts of Alana Bloom, the over-it banter of the tech crew as they examine bodies sprouting with mushrooms (I love all of those actors)
\n6. and this seems to me to be the most important \u2026 a sense of camp. I mean, it’s obvious the series is “serious”, and every character is totally tormented\u2026 but if I’m not mistaken there’s a camp sensibility at work here, and it saves the whole thing. Elevates it aesthetically.
\n7. every single shot – every. single. one. – is beautiful and striking and scary and ridiculous. Kid-in-a-candy-store cinematography<\/p>\n

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