I confess I've only watched up to nearly the end of the second episode of the 3 available to me, and someone somewhere says it's only after the third that this stuff begins to grip, but I am certain after watching the two last night and then sleeping on it that this is an overwrought, over-kinky, over-violent and just generally overdone piece of parasitizing on the great original, Silence ...., still trying to cash in on the original as the producers have been doing for many a long year. I admit after the simple perfection of Silence that I found the gorgeous Hannibal rather flavoursome, and Red Dragon, even, okay, though the insanity was beginning to be over-weighty, but then Hannibal Rising arrived, a risible and disgusting piece of exploitative nonsense. Still trying to milk the franchise, the production company now comes up with this muck. A massive revision of the characters as we know them, but still they are the same characters and we still know, however it happens, how it will turn out. But now Lecter is the very spooky Mad M., who is a sinister looking gentleman with a rather thick Danish accent, sometimes hard to understand, and who frankly looks like a thug, quite unlike the genius Hopkins we have come to know and love, but like god alone knows what. And then there is Mr Dancy as Will Graham, who has Cruise-like problems with eye contact and a miserable look and 'pure empathy', sheer twaddle the lot of it. You certainly begin to wonder who the story is about, Will, Lecter, or the other ever more baroque and unbelievable murders cropping up on a regular basis. The reason I come here to IMDb to write about it is from upset, and from distress, and from sadness and anger that such exploitation is rife and will no doubt go on to sully the imaginations of generations younger than mine who witnessed the original.