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Hannibal

TV·2013–2015·3 seasons, 39 episodes·NBC·Drama, Crime, Horror·1h·8.2·Created by Bryan Fuller

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Criminal profiler Will Graham is tasked by FBI agent Jack Crawford, the head of Behavioral Sciences, to help investigate the disappearances of eight young girls across Minnesota. Graham and Crawford's team investigate several subsequent murders, while also trying to catch the Chesapeake Ripper. With the investigation weighing heavily on Graham, Crawford decides to have him supervised by psychiatrist Dr. Hannibal Lecter, who, unbeknownst to them, is the Chesapeake Ripper himself, actively seeking to derail the investigation.

Highest-rated episodes all ranked

  1. 01Hannibal S01E13SavoureuxS01E13 · 8.4When Will returns from Minnesota without Abigail, Hannibal turns Will in, and Jack and the BAU team find strong evidence of Will having killed not only Abigail, but possibly being the Copy Cat Killer. Jack and Alana begin to accept that Will is indeed capable of murder. Will is arrested, plans a desperate escape, and takes Hannibal back to Minnesota to clear his name and prove he's being framed. But before he can, the situation takes another ugly and unexpected turn.
  2. 02Hannibal S01E07SorbetS01E07 · 8.2When the BAU investigates a murder involving organ removal Jack believes that the Chesapeake Ripper may have resurfaced, but Will determines that the victim's murder is the result of illegal organ harvesting accident. Meanwhile, Will suffers from nightmares where he is Abigail's father, and Hannibal slowly starts to seduce Alana Bloom and begins to visit his own therapist, Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier.
  3. 03Hannibal S01E08FromageS01E08 · 8.2The BAU investigates a murder in which the killer exposes the victim's vocal cords to literally play them like a cello. Meanwhile, Hannibal discovers that the killer, Tobias, murdered the victim as an attempt to gain Hannibal's attention but then makes an attempt to take Lecter's life. Will is driven to distraction by strange noises in his head and turns to Alana, in a romantic way, seeking peace and stability. Hannibal describes his relationship with Will to his therapist, Dr. Bedilia Du Maurier.

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Episodes by season

Season01Best seasonEpisode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2013Aired 7.8Season avg
  1. S01E01Hannibal S01E01ApéritifApril 4, 2013 8.1When the FBI takes on a case of disappearing college girls, Jack Crawford recruits Will Graham, a gifted criminal profiler with a unique vie
  2. S01E02Hannibal S01E02Amuse-BoucheApril 11, 2013 7.8Will Graham, now an official special investigator with the FBI, helps Jack Crawford and the BAU unit search for a murderer who buries his vi
  3. S01E03Hannibal S01E03PotageApril 18, 2013 7.4Jack theorizes that Abigail may have aided her father, Garret Jacob Hobbs in his serial killings. Against Dr. Alana Bloom's advice, but at H
  4. S01E04Hannibal S01E04ŒufApril 26, 2013 7.4Will investigates a string of family murders. Meanwhile, Hannibal releases Abigail from the hospital, then uses frightening psychiatric prac
  5. S01E05Hannibal S01E05CoquillesApril 26, 2013 7.4Will Graham and the BAU team track a serial killer whose bloody ritual includes cutting the victims' back flesh and stretching it to look li
  6. S01E06Hannibal S01E06EntréeMay 2, 2013 7.4Jack & Alana are contacted by a former colleague, Dr. Chilton, who believes he has The Chesapeake Ripper in custody, but then one of his
  7. S01E07Hannibal S01E07SorbetMay 9, 2013 8.2When the BAU investigates a murder involving organ removal Jack believes that the Chesapeake Ripper may have resurfaced, but Will determines
  8. S01E08Hannibal S01E08FromageMay 16, 2013 8.2The BAU investigates a murder in which the killer exposes the victim's vocal cords to literally play them like a cello. Meanwhile, Hannibal
  9. S01E09Hannibal S01E09Trou NormandMay 23, 2013 7.7The BAU team hunts a serial killer who digs up his victims, creating a totem pole of their bodies as a macabre trophy. When Nick Boyle's bod
  10. S01E10Hannibal S01E10Buffet FroidMay 30, 2013 7.9Investigates a murder in which two victims' faces are similarly mutilated; given a "Glasgow Smile." For the first time, Will contaminates a
  11. S01E11Hannibal S01E11RôtiJune 6, 2013 8.0When Dr.Gideon escapes from police custody, he seeks to kill psychiatrists who have profiled him. Will and the BAU team try to track him dow
  12. S01E12Hannibal S01E12RelevésJune 13, 2013 8.1After Georgia Madchen dies in an explosion, Will asserts that the copy cat killer is still alive. The BAU team links Abigail to the Minnesot
  13. S01E13Hannibal S01E13Season's bestSavoureuxJune 20, 2013 8.4When Will returns from Minnesota without Abigail, Hannibal turns Will in, and Jack and the BAU team find strong evidence of Will having kill

Season 1 ranked & reviewed

Season02Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2014Aired 7.4Season avg
  1. S02E01Hannibal S02E01KaisekiFebruary 28, 2014 7.2Will is determined to fight for his innocence as Hannibal and Jack try to wrap their heads around the fact he's behind bars. Meanwhile, Alan
  2. S02E02Hannibal S02E02SakizukiMarch 7, 2014 7.5The case of the human soup becomes clearer when a victim that has escaped from the killer's clutches washes downstream after a deadly fall,
  3. S02E03Hannibal S02E03HassunMarch 14, 2014 7.2Will Graham's trial begins and he must watch as those closest to him are forced to take sides. Jack Crawford scathing report about his condu
  4. S02E04Hannibal S02E04TakiawaseMarch 21, 2014 7.6Our team is called in when a body is found in a meadow, the cranial cavity converted into a beehive. Meanwhile, Beverly Katz continues to wo
  5. S02E05Hannibal S02E05MukōzukeMarch 28, 2014 7.7When one of the team's own is found in a grotesque tableau, Will volunteers to assist with the profile and informs Jack that it's the work o
  6. S02E06Hannibal S02E06FutamonoApril 4, 2014 7.8When a city councilman's body is found in a parking lot, intertwined with a tree, the artistry and missing organs suggest the work of the Ch
  7. S02E07Hannibal S02E07YakimonoApril 11, 2014 7.4When Jack Crawford's star pupil Miriam Lass is found alive, she becomes the FBI's best hope to identifying the Chesapeake Ripper, but her fo
  8. S02E08Hannibal S02E08Su-ZakanaApril 18, 2014 7.0When a young woman's body is discovered inside of a horse, Hannibal suggests to Jack that Will be brought in to help crack this peculiar cas
  9. S02E09Hannibal S02E09ShiizakanaApril 25, 2014 7.4The FBI is called in to investigate the discovery of a truck driver's body, seemingly torn apart by two separate species of animal working i
  10. S02E10Hannibal S02E10Naka-ChokoMay 2, 2014 7.1The bond between Hannibal and Will grows after Will demonstrates his willingness to go to dark places, a shift that does not go unnoticed by
  11. S02E11Hannibal S02E11Kō No MonoMay 9, 2014 7.4The truth of Freddie Lounds' disappearance is discovered by Jack and his team. Alana expresses her concern over Will's mental state, but he
  12. S02E12Hannibal S02E12Tome-WanMay 16, 2014 7.4In a therapy session, Will imagines how he would kill Hannibal, honestly sharing his visions, and oddly bolstering their co-dependency. Late
  13. S02E13Hannibal S02E13Season's bestMizumonoMay 23, 2014 8.0Hannibal prepares for his imminent departure with, he believes, Will. Will prepares for a departure of another sort, tying up loose ends, no

Season 2 ranked & reviewed

Season03Episode ratings across the season — the gold bar is its best episode13Episodes2015Aired 6.6Season avg
  1. S03E01Hannibal S03E01AntipastoJune 4, 2015 6.2Having successfully escaped FBI capture, Hannibal Lecter is moving through the European landscape, with Bedelia Du Maurier in tow. But Dr. L
  2. S03E02Hannibal S03E02PrimaveraJune 11, 2015 6.5With his wounds now healed, Will Graham heads to Europe eight months after the horrific event that almost took his life, in search of closur
  3. S03E03Hannibal S03E03SecondoJune 18, 2015 6.1Will Graham continues his search for Hannibal Lecter, making his way to Hannibal's childhood home in Lithuania. Once there he meets the myst
  4. S03E04Hannibal S03E04AperitivoJune 25, 2015 5.9After surviving a disfiguring gunshot, Dr. Fredrick Chilton is now focused on rallying support to capture Hannibal, using Will as bait. Jack
  5. S03E05Hannibal S03E05ContornoJuly 2, 2015 6.6Jack Crawford and Inspector Pazzi search for clues that will lead them closer to Hannibal Lecter's location in Florence, but the promise of
  6. S03E06Hannibal S03E06DolceJuly 9, 2015 6.4Sensing their time in Florence is coming to an end, Bedelia Du Maurier and Hannibal consider their parting as Hannibal plans for his final s
  7. S03E07Hannibal S03E07DigestivoJuly 18, 2015 6.9Captured in Italy by police on Mason Verger's payroll, Will Graham are delivered to Muskrat Farm to await Mason's revenge. Alana, distressed
  8. S03E08Hannibal S03E08The Great Red DragonJuly 25, 2015 6.5Dr. Hannibal Lecter has been under lock and key for three years at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane, when a new villai
  9. S03E09Hannibal S03E09And the Woman Clothed with the SunAugust 1, 2015 6.5The FBI's search for elusive serial killer Francis Dolarhyde intensifies as Will Graham begins envisioning himself in Dolarhyde's tormented
  10. S03E10Hannibal S03E10...And the Woman Clothed in SunAugust 8, 2015 6.6Carvings symbolizing the Great Red Dragon, retrieved from crime scenes, help Will Graham and the FBI shed light on Francis Dolarhyde's distu
  11. S03E11Hannibal S03E11...And the Beast from the SeaAugust 15, 2015 6.3Will Graham and Jack Crawford are certain that Francis Dolarhyde will strike again with the approaching full moon, but without a solid lead,
  12. S03E12Hannibal S03E12The Number of the Beast is 666August 22, 2015 6.9Will Graham and the FBI enlist the expertise of Dr. Fredrick Chilton in the hopes of luring Francis Dolarhyde into an ambush, using Freddie
  13. S03E13Hannibal S03E13Season's bestThe Wrath of the LambAugust 29, 2015 8.0In a desperate bid to slay Francis Dolarhyde, Will Graham engineers a cunning ploy utilizing Hannibal Lecter. Upon learning of his plan, Bed

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