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David ([personal profile] smallredboy) wrote in [community profile] fandom5k 2020-03-24 02:38 pm (UTC)

Hannibal (TV)

Hannibal (TV) is a crime procedural turned gothic horror turned dark romance and I would die for it. It includes:
- Weird dream sequences!
- Very good imagery you can pick apart and meta about for days
- Canon-ish M/M (like, they don't kiss, but...)
- Pretentious dialogue
- Whump by the dozen

It follows the life of Will Graham, an eccentric FBI academy teacher who goes back to working in the field as a profiler, before a traumatic experience sends him into being a patient of esteemed psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter. But, of course, Hannibal holds many secrets.

Warnings:
- Gore. So much gore.
- Implied and explicit cannibalism
- Body horror
- Implied CSA and rape in various episodes in season 2, and in late season 3 as well
- Medical abuse (withholding medical information from a patient, pretending nothing is wrong with them, provoking seizures and time loss; seen in the last three episodes of season 1 and in some flashbacks in season 2)
- Gaslighting (Common theme through season 1)
- Nonconsensual drug use (two scenes in season 2)
- One scene that I don't know how to describe but that upset me. Someone puts a tube down someone's throat without their consent and without them being quite conscious. Choking noises. Very reminiscent of a rape scene. It's a flashback in season 2; stay safe.

Where to watch it:
It's on Amazon Prime for the US. Everywhere else it depends. You can find it pretty easily on pirating sites.

It's 3 seasons of 13 episodes each, and it is very bingeable.

What I plan to request:
- Will/Hannibal! Them being disasters together after the finale, learning how to love each other, the works.
- Will/Hannibal & Abigail. Just... murder family. I want murder family.

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