The ratings were not great(initially) but went up a little(some websites and a few..fans is the wrong word for them since they only seem to shit-talk the show,want to believe that that is not the case.) Things moved along much more this episode but I loved it,I just loved it anyways(Yes, I know,I have kind of hard time being objective about the show. I know this! ;) )
Now that I'm rambled a bit,I'll talk about the show(and about the previews for next week a bit at the end.)
I loved this episode.Quite a bit of backstory about Hannibal and his sister Mischa(the dovetailing stories with Hannibal talking about Mischa(his sister) and Will going to Lithuania to try to get more information about Hannibal was well done..and with a bit of Jack on the side.And a bit more Pazzi as well(judging by the promotional stills that I've seen, Hannibal crosses paths with Pazzi(I'll be curious to see if he meets the same fate that he does in the book)
Hannibal and Bedelia host a party, and it ends(?) with a death(by icepick..Hannibal stabs the man in the head and Bedelia removes it(Hannibal: "Technically, *you* killed him." Oh Hannibal.Don't ever quit being you.)
Hannibal,meanwhile,is processing Will's "Hannibal:I forgive you". from last week.
Bedelia is in snarky mode this week. Way to throw that shade, girl. Hannibal seems shadeproof though.
Will, apparently no worse for the wear from visiting Palermo, is now in Lithuania, trying to find out what made Hannibal Hannibal. He creeps around in the woods near the Lecter home,and in the family graveyard, and sees a Japanese woman shooting game. This is Chiyoh, and she was handmaiden/assistant to Hannibal's aunt.
Will decides to wait things out(starts a fire out in the woods.Somehow,I'm not surprised that Will is outdoorsy.Bur Chiyoh knows he's there.She's just waiting for Will's curiosity to get the better of him :) )
Will spots Chiyoh going into a building on the grounds. Turns out Chiyoh has been holding one of the people who killed Hannibal's sister there for many years. She is feeding him the pheasant and he has been making dolls out of the bones. Chiyoh realises Will's there and makes him leave at gunpoint.
Eventually, Will is able to explain why he is there, and shows Chiyoh his scar. She says that he and Hannibal are nakama, a Japanese word for close friend. No, really? LOL
Chiyoh and Hannibal talk, and Will gets some insight into Hannibal, and his relationsip with Mischa(an interesting note:The inscription on Mischa's grave translates to "beloved" in English.)There's a great scene where Will is walking around the Lecter estate and is surrounded by fireflies,which is called back to later with Will turning Chiyoh's prisoner into a moth-firefly man.
Will sets the man free, only for him to return to his cage. Chiyoh comes to give him dinner and he attacks her. Chiyoh is able to kill him with a sharpened bone(which we saw in a great flashback scene reminiscent of the Marlows in the pilot.)
Will turns the prisoner into an art installation, covering him with snails(they kept showing them during this episode and with wings. I can't do it justice describing it, and hauls him up in the air for Hannibal to find, presumably. The student has become the master.
Chiyoh agrees to help Will find Hannibal-she says, earlier in the episode,that she is not extirely there by choice(a parallel with Bedelia, perhaps?)
Hannibal says that the only way he can forgive Will is to..eat him. Like I have said more than once: Hannibal and Will could benefit from some serious couples' therapy. :P
Next week we find out what happened to Alana, Chilton, and Mason Verger. There are flashbacks just after the Red Dinner(a shot of Chilton with a messed-up looking eye,Alana laying on a traction bed-it looks like she broke her hips..and there's a scene where she's with Will in what looks like Hannibal's house and she is in a wheelchair. And Mason right after he cut his face off(we know he gets pretty good plastic surgery because it's nowhere near as gnarly as Gary Oldman's Mason Verger in the movie Hannibal.) and then a bit later.
I was skeptical about Joe Anderson being cast as Mason..I didn't think he could ever be as good as Michael Pitt, but he owned.it.
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