I was a bit wary of watching this as I thought it might ruin the films for me because I'm a big fan of the film series, but downloaded and watched this after reading some great reviews on here, I had to download it as it's only just been released over here in England. I was looking for a new series to watch until The Walking dead returned and I'm glad I found it! I never thought I would enjoy it quite so much! It draws you in and keeps you wanting more. I eagerly await for each episode to come out and it just gets better and better! I didn't think I could see anyone else as Hannibal after Anthony Hopkins in the films but Mads Mikkelsen plays him brilliantly! This is my first review by the way, I just had to tell everyone how amazing this show is! 10/10 would recommend to everyone! Also I heard somewhere that NBC (I think that's who done the show) where planning on axing it.. Which doesn't make sense to me as it hasn't even shown the full first series yet! So if that's true (Which I hope it isn't) I will be very disappointed to see this show cancelled when it hasn't really even started yet.!