Fromage

Fromage is another strong Lecter focussed episode. Certain aspects of the story were set up nicely in Sorbet for the killer-of-the-week aspect of the plot. What it does well is develop Lecter's character through his friendship needs and choices. The reflective scenes with Dr Du Maurier compliment what happens quite well.

The story also functions as a lead-in to some effective moments of horror suspense and a big action climax. As you can imagine the filmmakers do great work in these scenes. One set in a creepy basement is quite spine-tingling. Additionally there are several bits that put you on edge such as the moment Will listens through a wall for a sound and pretty much every scene involving the character Tobias.

Will's mental deterioration continues to be effectively portrayed in multiple scenes. Hugh Dancy is as convincing as ever in these moments.

For me it is an 8.5/10, but I round upwards.

More action than previous, nice fight sequence. At the end, the song Hannibal begins to play is the first of the Goldberg Variations (Bach).

This is notable because the best part of Ridley Scott's film of "Hannibal" (which was pretty awful) was the opening sequence of surveillance tape of Hannibal set to the Goldberg Variations. Boom.

Apparently I have to throw in a few more lines here so I will just note how weird an assertion it is that this takes place in the same universe as the other Bryan Fuller TV shows.

First of all, the piemaker would make some seriously Titus Andronicus pies here; second of all, he could just wake someone up and they'd say Hannibal! Although if that means we will get a Jewel Staite (Wonderfalls) sighting then I'm in.

Once qgain an amazing episode where Hannibal gets all the good scenes and moments! This was the first time where both the murderes and the murderer, was memorable! Usually the murders in the show are, due to their graphic nature more memorable than the murderer... with a few exceptions however, such as this episode!

This episode also shows how Will is slowly loosing his grasp on reality, and begins to hallucinate! Its this mental decline that will olay a major role on this last part of the season!

The confrontation in the end was great, giving us some actual action and intensity!

Hannibal once again shows how intelligent he is and what strings to play!

Of course, many things are not realistic, but playing the vocal chords was a key element of the plot and theme of this show. How many of you screamed at the TV that those are not the vocal chords?!

For me, the series has been getting boring. I am curious when the investigators will figure out what Hannibal is doing.

I was disappointed when they explicitly showed what Hannibal was doing. Is it not better to slowly raise suspicions and let the viewer figure it out?

For me, this is the last straw. I will skip ahead to see when they learn about Hannibal. I don't know how they could string this out for three seasons. (A bit like The Blacklist playing out the Keen secret for far too long.)

So in this episode we start to find out more about Tobias. The 'friend' of one of Lecter's patients.

Oh YES!!! The trombone player!!! Killed by blunt force trauma!!

+1 Star for the display of the trombone player!!!

Graham continues have his hallucinations. x2

Lecter continues his own sessions seeing Dr. Du Maurier.

Graham invites Dr. Bloom over to share in his psychosis.

Lecter boldly invites Tobias over for dinner, and frankly explains how he feels about him. Graham shows up to talk to Lecter and interrupts the dinner party. That was funny!!

Graham finds Tobias and confronts him in his shop. Tobias decides to go Rambo and takes out a couple cops and then goes over to Lecters'.

+1 Star for the fight between Tobias and Lecter. That was fun!!!

+1 Star for the wrap up with Dr. Du Maurier.

This episode gets a 8/10