Argh, I just went looking for a Hannibal music video to give you an idea of the show… and I literally could not stop watching! Seriously, I've been at it for like 2 hours! :D Sadly, I can't find any music vids that showcase what I love about the show without also being massively spoilery… so here's a trailer instead: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pDTzn8y-5kM It's probably not quite right to describe it as fairytale-like, but the main character (Will Graham) has a gift for empathy, plus an extremely vivid imagination. So the show often descends into a dreamlike world entirely in Will's mind. Eventually, reality and fiction/hallucination blur to the point where he literally can't tell what's real anymore.
The imagery and cinematography is probably the best I've ever seen on television. Every murder/crime scene is constructed like a work of art. Basically the show depicts violence & death as a monstrous sort of elegance and beauty. It's unlike anything I've ever seen, which made me think it had a sort of fairytale quality, but it's more accurate to describe it as dreamlike or nightmarish. And entirely psychologically driven. Will's gift for empathy allows him to put himself in the mind of killers – to the point where he starts feeling like one. His boss is worried about him, so he orders him to see a therapist. The therapist... is Dr Hannibal Lecter, who is secretly a serial killer. He sees a kindred spirit in Will, and instead of helping him, sets out to drive him mad, break him and remake him in his own image. It's very dark, and if you're uncomfortable with graphic violence or gore I'm not sure I'd recommend it. But it's really quite extraordinary. They are the only two people who can possibly understand each other; they cannot coexist, but also cannot survive without each other. It's very Snarry-like in that way. And the ship is all completely there on screen, in canon. Eventually, Will asks another character with total seriousness: "Is Hannibal in love with me?"
Oops, look at me rambling like a crazy Hannibal fangirl. I'm going to start a new comment to reply to the rest of yours because this is already way too long! (Please don't feel like you have to reply to all these comments by the way. I totally won't mind if you skip or ignore any of them!) <3
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The imagery and cinematography is probably the best I've ever seen on television. Every murder/crime scene is constructed like a work of art. Basically the show depicts violence & death as a monstrous sort of elegance and beauty. It's unlike anything I've ever seen, which made me think it had a sort of fairytale quality, but it's more accurate to describe it as dreamlike or nightmarish. And entirely psychologically driven. Will's gift for empathy allows him to put himself in the mind of killers – to the point where he starts feeling like one. His boss is worried about him, so he orders him to see a therapist. The therapist... is Dr Hannibal Lecter, who is secretly a serial killer. He sees a kindred spirit in Will, and instead of helping him, sets out to drive him mad, break him and remake him in his own image. It's very dark, and if you're uncomfortable with graphic violence or gore I'm not sure I'd recommend it. But it's really quite extraordinary. They are the only two people who can possibly understand each other; they cannot coexist, but also cannot survive without each other. It's very Snarry-like in that way. And the ship is all completely there on screen, in canon. Eventually, Will asks another character with total seriousness: "Is Hannibal in love with me?"
Oops, look at me rambling like a crazy Hannibal fangirl. I'm going to start a new comment to reply to the rest of yours because this is already way too long! (Please don't feel like you have to reply to all these comments by the way. I totally won't mind if you skip or ignore any of them!) <3