Episode 2 hooked me even more than the first but once again I spotted more changes from the source material. The first is the introduction of Freddie Lounds who is the book is a lonely, middle-aged man who seeks the romantic company of a prostitute while using unconventional bordering on criminal methods to option information for the Tattler newspaper. In the show, Freddie is a woman played by Lara Jean Chorostecki who is a reporter running a blog called Tattlecrime who uses similar methods but gets caught earlier on by Hannibal. She also uses a relationship with Brian Zeller to obtain information that no one outside of the case would have.
In this episode the F.B.I. uncover a mushroom farm being fertilized by humans, the killer is thought to be a pharmacist as all the victims died of kidney failure as they are all diabetics. Obviously the F.B.I. find out where all the victims bought their insulin and find the killer. However, because of Freddie, not everything goes to plan as the killer escapes and tries to abduct more victims to start a new farm, one of these being Abigail Hobbs who is the now orphaned daughter of the killer in the first episode. This is where things get interesting and we can see more differences between the show and its book counterpart. There is a scene where Hannibal invites Jack to dinner while this never happens in the books it is a natural thing for Hannibal to do with him being so involved in the cases as well as being Will’s therapist. However, Jack mentions he and his wife work, this is inaccurate as in the book Jack’s wife is ill and dying which is what prompts his attraction to Clarice Starling in the later books.
As Will’s therapist, Hannibal seems to guide Will in the direction he wants him to go, helping him come to terms with killing someone for the first time but not to ease his guilt but for him to accept the power he felt in the killing. However, both Will and Hannibal feel responsible for Abigail, but I am not sure yet whether Hannibal’s feelings are genuine or if he’s just acting in order to get closer to Will. We also see a budding attraction between Will and Alana, which makes me think that neither Molly or Willy are going to appear at all in this show. After stopping the suspect from taking Abigail, Will confesses to Hannibal that killing Abigail’s father felt good and that he even considered killing this new suspect which seems to be exactly what Hannibal wants. Unlike the first episode, this one focused less on the crime itself and more on the relationship between the characters which was nice to have some solid character development early on, but I am not sure how I feel about all the changes from the source material.
Once again music plays a huge part in directing the viewer’s emotional state in a similar way Hannibal is doing the exact same with Will although all the suspicion that the viewer was directed to put on Hannibal in the first episode has disappeared, almost making the reader think that the first episode was entirely misdirection. In a way it was as Hannibal wasn’t responsible for those killings, however, I think he might be responsible for the copycat killing that happened in the first episode. The visual effects here were even better than the first but eerie, dark and morbidly disturbing all at once which makes for some compelling viewing. So far, I am really enjoying the show, but I am struggling to come to terms with the fact this is an original show not following the source material since it has borrowed so much from it. The show has disregarded the character’s origin stories and relationships that were so compelling in the books, but I can’t make any major judgments until I’ve watched a bit more.
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