Hannibal Lecter Is Back—and Brought Someone Very Interesting With Him

Hannibal Lecter Is Backâ€"and Brought Someone Very Interesting With Him

"Hannibal" had a fairly soft premiere for NBC at 4.3 million viewers, though that's still up from the last drama NBC tried in the Thursday-at-10 timeslot, when "Do No Harm" premiered to historically bad ratings. It's not a terrible

Did the series premiere of NBC's “Hannibal” whet your appetite for more from the TV cannibal and his FBI foe?

NBC's “Hannibal” is a beautifully executed television show, anchored by several great performances. It's also part of an unsettling trend in crime dramas and movies.

Still, nothing until very suddenly Graham finds himself overcome with the terrible certainty that Hannibal Lecter is the Chesapeake Ripper. So suddenly, in fact, that it visibly disorients Graham; the awkwardness is a fatal tell for Lecter; and

In a more sensible world, NBC's new drama Hannibal would be called Graham, after the real main attraction of the show. But television, particularly television that's created by NBC, is a business first, a business second, and a business third (and at