By: Peter

Peter — Sat, 29 Mar 2014 09:47:00 +0000

Watching the show with its arty corpse displays and so on I wondered whether it was targeted at a certain audience that would appreciate the aesthetics of a show over say logic/reality. Then I noticed how much of the material is really presented either as inner realisations, or as dialogues, in other words lonely people sharing lonely thoughts. It is probably commonplace to characterise arty intellectual types as lonely, they require solitude no doubt for their cerebral exploration and this show presents the apex mind, so inward that questions of taste are the only ones that matter. And I suppose there is a little snob value in all that. There is nothing better on television perhaps but there is also nothing more ridiculous. How many serial killers with visual flair are actually in this town? Where does Hannibal get all of his equipment? How on earth did he get her clothes to separate so cleanly? Who cares? It’s gothic television, even Mads accent sounds like a vampire.

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By: Peter