In Hannibals slowest and visually darkest Season 3 episode yet, Will visits Hannibal’s childhood home.
How powerful are Hannibals manipulations?
Secondo, the third episode ofHannibals third season answers that question in terms of both time and distance.
This is how Will finds them, like an epilogue straight out of a Grimms fairy tale.
In freeing the caged man, Will is playing the same game Hannibal once played with him.
He is curious what the caged man will do.
He is curious what Chiyo will do.
The answer is the caged man will seek vengeance, and Chiyo will murder him in self-defense.
Even countries apart, Will remains in Hannibals orbit.
Meanwhile in Italy, Hannibal continues to ensconce himself in the world of the Florentine academic elite.
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Did she volunteer to play his wife in Florence?
Did he coerce her into coming?
Her value seems to lie at least partially in her understanding of the relationship between Will and Hannibal.
She knows that, like Mischa, Will is someone Hannibal loves.
That love, as much as anything else Will has done, is a betrayal.
Hannibal decides that, so that forgive Will this sin, he will eat him.
Just like he did his sister.
We also catch up with Jack, notably for the first time since the bloody season two finale.
In what is probably a surprise to no one, he survived.
Jack quickly avows him of this notion.
Here, Jack is the Will to Wills Hannibal in that he is chasing his friend across continents.
All sorrows can be borne if you put them into a story, the episode repeats.
For these characters, home is a sorrow they choose to narrate rather than return to.
At least for now.
Still, who can turn away from a show this gorgeously shot, acted, and written?
Rating:
3 out of 5
