For the sake of everyone's sanity (no one wants to hear me talk about cheekbones and Danish accents trust me we’d be here all night) I'll be talking strictly about the books here though I'd be lying if I said my appreciation for the books hasn't been colored by the television show. Cause it has.

To be honest, two thirds of the book were quite well developed, showing many of the darkest things that human beings can do to other human beings…

The entire series is based on a psychopath Doctor named Hannibal Lecter, who ironically, practiced psychiatry himself. Over the series one can see that Dr. Lecter is has a complex and organised mind. He continues his practice of psychiatry with brilliance while he himself shows Cannibalism. He is popularly known as Hannibal the Cannibal. Ummm... Yeah u read it right... He eats humans... Apart from that he is a charming gentleman. . Harris expounded upon his theme by making Hannibal his grisliest novel. Lecter murders Pazzi by disemboweling him and hanging him from Florence’s famed Palazzo Vecchio while the hideous-looking Verger, his face and body all but destroyed, plans to enact his vengeance on Lecter by feeding him alive to wild boars. Verger himself meets his end at the hands of his sister, who chokes Verger to death with his pet moray eel–and after violently extracting some of his sperm so she can have a baby with her lesbian partner. a b Vary, Adam B. (June 1, 2010). "The 100 Greatest Characters of the Last 20 Years: Here's our full list!". Entertainment Weekly . Retrieved July 7, 2012. Lecter rescues the wounded Starling and takes her to his rented house on the Chesapeake shore to treat her, subjecting her to a regimen of psychoactive drugs in the course of therapy sessions to help her heal from her childhood trauma and her pent-up anger at the injustices of the world. He considers whether his long-dead younger sister Mischa may somehow be able to live again through Starling. One day, he invites her to a formal dinner where the guest and first course is Krendler, whose brain they consume together. On this night, Starling refuses to let her personality be subsumed, telling Lecter that Mischa's memory can live within him. She then offers him her breast, and they become lovers. I already explained in my review of The Silence of the Lambs that I became fan of the story for Clarice Starling instead of Dr. Hannibal Lecter, and pondering about the “ball effective time” of Lecter in the first two books, I still believe that Thomas Harris never thought that Hannibal Lecter would become the leading character in the book series,…

Cox, Brian (March 10, 2009). "Brian Cox: Interview (Manhunter)". Wogan Now and Then (Interview). Interviewed by Terry Wogan. London, England: BBC. Archived from the original on 2021-12-11.Gautier Platteau, Hannibal Books publisher in Zaal Z, the magazine of the KMSKA (Royal Museum of Fine Arts Antwerp)

Lecter is in an institution for convicted felons who are also criminally insane. He’s there because Graham put him there after the two of them nearly killed one another when Graham consulted with Lecter on an earlier case. (A case in which Lecter turned out to be the killer and a cannibal.) Published in 2006, years after the first three original novels in the series, Hannibal Rising is a prequel. It tells the story of a young Hannibal who escapes a brutal and terrifying childhood to live with his uncle and his uncle’s wife in idyllic France.a b c Valdez, Maria G. (July 29, 2013). "Thomas Harris, 'Silence Of The Lambs' Author, Reveals Hannibal Lecter Was Inspired By Real Life Mexican Doctor". Latin Times . Retrieved November 12, 2020. But what if the ending of Hannibal (the novel) isn’t a cruel disaster? What if Harris was trying something thematically bold, only for a significant portion of his audience to miss the point? What I love about Mads' approach to the character is that, in our first meeting, he was adamant that he didn't want to do Hopkins or Cox. He talked about the character not so much as 'Hannibal Lecter the cannibal psychiatrist', but as Satan – this fallen angel who's enamoured with mankind and had an affinity for who we are as people, but was definitely not among us – he was other. I thought that was a really cool, interesting approach, because I love science fiction and horror and – not that we'd ever do anything deliberately to suggest this – but having it subtextually play as him being Lucifer felt like a really interesting kink to the series. It was slightly different than anything that's been done before and it also gives it a slightly more epic quality if you watch the show through the prism of, 'This is Satan at work, tempting someone with the apple of their psyche'. It appealed to all of those genre things that get me excited about any sort of entertainment. [29] Andreeva, Nellie (January 12, 2020). " 'Silence Of The Lambs' Sequel Series 'Clarice' Set At CBS From Alex Kurtzman & Jenny Lumet". Deadline.