I don't think that this is the best show on television. The show has a major flaw and that is that instead of visual story telling forwarding the plot it uses dialog to an annoying extent. The characters end up talking at each other in order to keep the audience on the right page in terms of plot, but this is, in my opinion, the best depiction of a highly manipulative psychopath in cinematic history. Unlike Tom Ripley, Hannibal plays a chess game and plans his moves months in advance, like a psychopath that I was close to in my personal life.