Hello everyone, I did re-watch season 1 and sorry I did not live by my promise. But I will add my review for the season 2 premiere.
Starting off with a bang, the new season gives us what is to come as Hannibal faces off with Jack Crawford. We are then sent back to twelve weeks earlier and I already know this season is going to be amazing.
The season continues almost exactly where the first season left off, so if you have not seen season 1 you should watch it, or you'll be asking a lot of questions.
Great news as everyone is back, and I do mean everyone. From the usual, Will, Jack, Hannibal, Dr. Bloom, Jack's 3 helpers and even Doctor Chilton make it into the episode. I loved the development on everyone here, and the interesting fact on how Hannibal likes to play with the FBI, letting them investigate him only to cover his tracks further and prove Will's theory of him being a killer to be complete fabrication.
Of course this series would be nothing without its serial killers and the one in this episode has a certain obsession with skin, could he be Buffalo Bill? For anyone who saw the movies or read the books Buffalo Bill is the main antagonist of The Silence of the Lambs. I found this season is different from the last as the noted beginning of the episode is a nice opener for the new season and the fact that this time the killer is not caught in the end. It leads me to believe this season could be similar to Dexter in a little ways as Hannibal takes on the role of Will Graham and Will takes on the role that Hannibal had in the first two novels of him institutionalized.
Will Graham is still a part of the episode as Alana Bloom, Lecter, Jack, Beverley, and Chilton take part in each giving a certain perspective on Graham's psychy. Alana wants to find the truth and let Will know it, Lecter does his bit of trying to convince Will that Hannibal is not a killer, Jack considers Will to be nothing more that a crazy psychopath and Agent Beverley doesn't know what to believe but does want Will's advice on the search for this season's serial killer.
Gillian Anderson gets some much needed screen time in this episode and for all you Sex in the City fans, Cynthia Nixon from said show cameos as an investigator into the events of the previous season.
A great return for an excellent show,
Rating: A+
