Antipasto

That was an amazingly great step up and change of scenery for the show ,, starting off in Florence,, gosh i'v walked in Florence and it was glorious moment for me ,, now seeing Hannibal embracing that city and that era of Dante ,, is so glamorous and nifty. There are still so many questions from last season haven't been answered yet but they're giving us little by little a sniff of what to be shown this season ,, of where the personality of Hannibal, Will Graham and Dr. Bedelia are evolving so fast to a new sophisticated level of excitement and affections.

I really was wondering for the past 8 months how the story is gonna get better and if it's gonna stay on the sets that we got used to ,, but then they hit you with this .. why not Italy!! .. and why not mixing Hannibal character with the most charismatic infatuated city in Italy !! ,, so now Hannibal is eating Internationally and trying to improve the flavor of his food :D

and sure not forgetting to mention the cinematography and visuals through the multi-camera closeups .. so delicious ;D

Can't wait to see how things are going to grow ,, noting at the last 5 minutes of the episode were splendid and so disturbingly catchy when you see how Hannibal is back to his old habits and so longing for Will Graham's appearance :)

Fantastic season. We see Hannibal in the wild, and his further entanglement and fascination with Will. Also the negative review of this season is the worse review I've ever read of anything in my life. It's too bad Hannibal doesn't exist so he could eat this reviewer.

Clearly the best episode so far, because it's about Hannibal lector ! The most fascinating character, there is not the boring will Graham and the endless nonsensical between characters. No jack no journalist no stupid Alana , this episode feel much more real and on the ground. Often the show seems to lost track with reality, this one is about Hannibal new life, makes us think about the incredible "Hannibal" movie 2002. Hannibal, florence, art , violence, cannibal. This is finally the version of Hannibal lector we know from the movie. He kills and talk. In season 1 and 2 he only was talking and talking forever with jack and Will.

9.25/10 episode, best in the show.

Antipasto was a very good episode and pretty much what i expected about it , this episode was pure art i felt like i was watching an art film in a theater , the details and choreography was excellent, i loved the interactions between Hannibal and Bedelia and loved the ending 5 minutes which was great , but if you expected this episode will be intense after the excellent season 2 finale then you will felt little let down but as the Hannibal crew had said that this premiere was like a pilot of a new series so i was pretty much knowing that it will be a calm and clever episode about the settling of Hannibal in Rome , i felt this episode was a hint of calmness before the storm comes and this storm will be quite disastrous and everything of first half of this season will be fold into the red dragon story which will be in the second half of the season and i am keenly looking forward to enjoy the Francis Dolharyde portrayal by Richard Armitage and also the portrayal of Chiyo of Lady Murasaki by Tao Okomato it would be pretty great this season you should only have to believe in this show and its crew members.

Did not overly enjoy this episode. An initial meeting at a Parisian party that seemed to not fit with the story. The pay off conveniently shoe horned in later within the same episode.

This episode seems more visual than and less mentally stimulating. Overly lingering slow motion shots, that whilst beautiful, seemed to be just too long and too much an offering to the God of gongs for best cinematography.

Some of the pace, tension and intelligence seemed missing. Especially when compared to the stellar season 2.

A lot of money spent on location. Equally as much on production values. However, it seems like the series is waiting for Will to join the party.