Perhaps it's because I've never been a fan of aesthetic over function, but this show seemed to get so lost in trying to be artistic that it forgot that plot is important too.

The first season is tense and interesting with well differentiated characters, even if it does lean on louder than life killers to hold the interest like a child telling outrageous stories.

The second is interesting in it's own way. It narrows in on the relationship between Will and Hannibal without loosing too much of the rest of the world.

The third is a different beast. The first half feels like at most three episodes stretched out with the use of (admittedly pretty) renderings of blood. For the second we're almost back to where we started, but we only get one other killer and none of the interesting interplay that made things interesting before.