New (To Me!) Show!
Jul. 8th, 2015 01:58 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodyrosemccoyMy friend finally convinced me to watch Hannibal Season 1. I've never been terribly into the movies and haven't read the books, but I'm enjoying it well enough. Or maybe it'd be better to say I APPRECIATE it. ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
cleolinda's recaps are what make the show for me, because she gets into it and loves analyzing it, and I love watching the fans love it. Normally I stay away from fandoms of things I like because they just fuck everything up, but in this case I'm all for it.
As for the show? Well. I get a little impatient with the Tormented Profiler character, but since this story pretty much kicked the trope off, I can't begrudge it. Especially when they started suggesting early on that his Inner Torment might be ACTUALLY LITERALLY INSIDE HIS HEAD and I was like, "YES, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT TWIST IF THEY'RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE" and then it turned out they were. So that was nice.* I like the characters (and for once Laurence Fishburne only irritates me when is CHARACTER is supposed to), and really enjoy what Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen are doing with theirs. Although my favorite is Eddie Izzard's, both because his character seems to WISH he was a criminal supergenius but can't quite pull it off, and because, you know, Eddie Izzard.**
But even though I do think it's brilliant, with lots of great symbolism and plotting (and also teleportation because THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE who was wondering how the hell they kept zapping back and forth to Minnesota), even with all the great characters, I dunno, I don't ... connect with the show like I do with other shows--say, Fringe or The Only Season Of Dexter. In that way, I suppose it's kind of like the fancy food the show presents--food that's so carefully constructed, cooked, and put together that you can't really relax and enjoy it, food that's art without being something you actually like to eat. Maybe I'm just a plebeian for TV (and food) in that way, but on the other hand, it is nice to enjoy the fanciness once in a while.
There is one thing, though. I know the show creators take a vindictive pleasure in making Hannibal's peoplefood look as sumptuous as possible, but goddamn I can't even be ironically tempted because it's all ORGAN MEAT. Seriously. You can do as many French things as you want to liver, but it is still GARBAGE FOOD. Keep your Seared Foie Gras (du PEOPLE) with Plum Basil Sauce, Hannibal. I'll stick with my chicken enchiladas, thanks.
*Although I did get kind of annoyed with how "mental illness" (blanket term) is portrayed as the Worst Fate Imaginable. I'm glad I'm not the only one; thankscleolinda.
**His American accent is getting better, too.
cleolinda's recaps are what make the show for me, because she gets into it and loves analyzing it, and I love watching the fans love it. Normally I stay away from fandoms of things I like because they just fuck everything up, but in this case I'm all for it.As for the show? Well. I get a little impatient with the Tormented Profiler character, but since this story pretty much kicked the trope off, I can't begrudge it. Especially when they started suggesting early on that his Inner Torment might be ACTUALLY LITERALLY INSIDE HIS HEAD and I was like, "YES, THAT WOULD BE A GREAT TWIST IF THEY'RE DOING IT ON PURPOSE" and then it turned out they were. So that was nice.* I like the characters (and for once Laurence Fishburne only irritates me when is CHARACTER is supposed to), and really enjoy what Hugh Dancy and Mads Mikkelsen are doing with theirs. Although my favorite is Eddie Izzard's, both because his character seems to WISH he was a criminal supergenius but can't quite pull it off, and because, you know, Eddie Izzard.**
But even though I do think it's brilliant, with lots of great symbolism and plotting (and also teleportation because THANK GOD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE who was wondering how the hell they kept zapping back and forth to Minnesota), even with all the great characters, I dunno, I don't ... connect with the show like I do with other shows--say, Fringe or The Only Season Of Dexter. In that way, I suppose it's kind of like the fancy food the show presents--food that's so carefully constructed, cooked, and put together that you can't really relax and enjoy it, food that's art without being something you actually like to eat. Maybe I'm just a plebeian for TV (and food) in that way, but on the other hand, it is nice to enjoy the fanciness once in a while.
There is one thing, though. I know the show creators take a vindictive pleasure in making Hannibal's peoplefood look as sumptuous as possible, but goddamn I can't even be ironically tempted because it's all ORGAN MEAT. Seriously. You can do as many French things as you want to liver, but it is still GARBAGE FOOD. Keep your Seared Foie Gras (du PEOPLE) with Plum Basil Sauce, Hannibal. I'll stick with my chicken enchiladas, thanks.
*Although I did get kind of annoyed with how "mental illness" (blanket term) is portrayed as the Worst Fate Imaginable. I'm glad I'm not the only one; thanks
cleolinda.**His American accent is getting better, too.
