Note: While Hannibal has been moved to Saturdays in the US, it continues to air on Thursdays in Canada. That being the case, I’ll be running my reviews Thursday nights for IGN Canada readers and then re-promoting on Saturday night for the US.
Per usual, full spoilers for the episode follow, so beware if you haven’t seen yet!
While it was established last week, this episode was especially effective with how it used the idea of Hannibal’s memory palace and the environments he imagined he was in versus the cell he was actually in. This was never commented upon, which allowed us to ponder… was Will seeing this too? After all, he too had been building a memory palace, as Hannibal himself had noted, and they "share some rooms" – and we even saw Will use this skill later, when he imagined himself in bed with Molly, during their phone call. But the big conversation Hannibal and Will had as the episode began was especially terrific in this regard, moving from Hannibal’s office to the two of them outside, with a giant, looming moon behind them.
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Per usual, full spoilers for the episode follow, so beware if you haven’t seen yet!
While it was established last week, this episode was especially effective with how it used the idea of Hannibal’s memory palace and the environments he imagined he was in versus the cell he was actually in. This was never commented upon, which allowed us to ponder… was Will seeing this too? After all, he too had been building a memory palace, as Hannibal himself had noted, and they "share some rooms" – and we even saw Will use this skill later, when he imagined himself in bed with Molly, during their phone call. But the big conversation Hannibal and Will had as the episode began was especially terrific in this regard, moving from Hannibal’s office to the two of them outside, with a giant, looming moon behind them.
Continue reading…
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