{"id":5594,"date":"2016-05-23T08:00:20","date_gmt":"2016-05-23T15:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/?p=5594"},"modified":"2016-05-16T23:12:06","modified_gmt":"2016-05-17T06:12:06","slug":"mark-watches-hannibal-s03e11-and-the-beast-from-the-sea","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/markwatches.net\/reviews\/2016\/05\/mark-watches-hannibal-s03e11-and-the-beast-from-the-sea\/","title":{"rendered":"Mark Watches ‘Hannibal’: S03E11 – …And the Beast from the Sea"},"content":{"rendered":"

In the eleventh episode of the third season of\u00c2\u00a0Hannibal<\/i>, Dr. Lecter takes matters into his own hands. Intrigued? Then it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s time for Mark to watch\u00c2\u00a0Hannibal<\/i>.<\/p>\n

Trigger Warning: For discussion of home invasion scenarios, ableism, and mental illness.<\/b><\/p>\n

Good lord.<\/p>\n

So, NOW THERE ARE APPARENTLY TWO MORE EPISODES LEFT. In the\u00c2\u00a0Red Dragon<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0book and film, Dolarhyde is sent to Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home at the\u00c2\u00a0end<\/i>, and Will is most definitely there, and THINGS HAPPEN that I won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t spoil for you because everything\u00c2\u00a0absolutely<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0unfolds differently than this. In \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And the Best from the Sea,\u00e2\u20ac\u009d however, Fuller and Lightfoot are setting up a much different kind of confrontation. Perhaps they knew by this point that there wouldn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t be a fourth season, and I say that because it feels like some huge confrontation has now been put in motion. Bloom and Crawford are\u00c2\u00a0angry,\u00c2\u00a0<\/i>so much so that I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t see how the show can ignore their fury over what Hannibal Lecter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s done.<\/p>\n

Good lord, he really doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t care about these people at all. Even in his own twisted logic, he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s ready to destroy everyone, even Will Graham.<\/p>\n

So, let me start off by talking about Francis Dolarhyde. I admit that I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m intrigued by how much development we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve seen in him that the original canon never gave us. Part of that\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s simply because of the medium. Six episodes worth of screen time is more than one film, and what I remember of the book was\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6 well, I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know how to qualify it. Perhaps exploitative? It\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s very much the trope of someone with a mental illness being evil with no exploration of what that mental illness is like. This show, however, presents Dolarhyde\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s struggle much more plainly, especially as he realizes that he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s falling for Reba and doesn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want the Red Dragon to consume her. That\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not to say that there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s\u00c2\u00a0nothing<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0here that wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t in the original canon, but the depth here is substantial. We see Francis struggle with his mental illness, and the show even dispels of many of the hallucinatory sequences to show us how Dolarhyde harms himself\u00c2\u00a0and<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0speaks to himself in the voice of the Red Dragon.<\/p>\n

At the same time, the dude is a murderer and he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s terrifying. I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t ignore that, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t want any sympathy or understanding to wash over it. Dolarhyde is shown to be fighting against his urges, but he\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s also the reason for the SCARIEST SCENE IN THIS ENTIRE EPISODE. So, I feel like I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122ve mentioned it before in reviews, but I have a\u00c2\u00a0thing<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0about home invasion scenarios. They terrify me to no end, so much so that I generally won\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t even watch movies that are centered around that plot. I knew that eventually, Dolarhyde was going to be sent to Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s home, but the show brilliantly toyed with me but putting that sequence in the eleventh episode and not having Will around. I WAS CONVINCED THAT MOLLY AND WALTER WERE GOING TO DIE. I was! There are only two episodes left, and I don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t think\u00c2\u00a0anyone<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0is safe at this point.<\/p>\n

Instead, though, the show has made Molly into her own character. And for someone just\u00c2\u00a0barely<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0introduced, I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m so thankful that she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s been give this much screen time. I mentioned earlier how much I appreciated the scenes of tenderness between her and Will, so I think it\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s important that there was another story beat to follow up on that. I never doubted the chemistry between these two characters, and I felt heartbroken as Will interacted with them. Hannibal may have ruined Will\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s relationship with these people. Walter is so disgusted with mental illness that he urges his father to kill Dolarhyde instead of curing him. (And the horrifying implications of\u00c2\u00a0that<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0felt like a punch in the face. If someone\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s mental illness is worth death in Walter\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s eyes, then that means Will knows that deep down, Walter probably would want him dead, too.) Molly, on the other hand, is far more sympathetic, but she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not\u00c2\u00a0fine<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0with what happened. There\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s some guilt there, since she urged Will to go back to work. At the same time, will she always live in fear that someone else might come for Will?<\/p>\n

And then there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s Reba. I still don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t know if The Thing will happen, but I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m guessing we\u00e2\u20ac\u2122re heading towards that. WHICH CONTINUES TO FREAK ME OUT BECAUSE I LOVE HER SO MUCH AND RUTINA WESLEY IS 100% THE BEST VERSION OF THIS CHARACTER. Every scene she\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s in is incredible, y\u00e2\u20ac\u2122all. IT IS TOO MUCH.<\/p>\n

As stressful as this is to think about, it really is a lot of fun. I love that I can\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t figure out how this is gonna end, but \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And the Beast from the Sea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d might have given me a glimpse of the end. I think Bloom, Crawford, and Graham are going to do\u00c2\u00a0something<\/i>\u00c2\u00a0to get back at Hannibal. But what??? And how???<\/p>\n

The video for \u00e2\u20ac\u0153\u00e2\u20ac\u00a6And the Beast from the Sea\u00e2\u20ac\u009d can be downloaded\u00c2\u00a0here for $0.99<\/a>.<\/p>\n

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