Hannibal
Takiawase
TV Flash files “Takiawase” as hour 17 of 39 in the TV Flash guide — Hannibal (2013–2015) on NBC, season 2, episode 4, aired 2014-03-21, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E04: listed hour 17 of 39 in the Hannibal guide, hour 4 of 13 in season 2. It aired 2014-03-21 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Hassun” (S02E03). Next is “Mukōzuke” (S02E05).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Our team is called in when a body is found in a meadow, the cranial cavity converted into a beehive. Meanwhile, Beverly Katz continues to work on the mural killer case, secretly consulting with Will Graham to decipher the killer's human tapestry. Will insists that the killer was put in the mural by Hannibal Lecter, and urges her to prove that Hannibal is the real Chesapeake Ripper and Copycat Killer.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Takiawase sit in the Hannibal guide?
S02E04 is listed hour 17 of 39 — hour 4 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 4.
When did Hannibal S02E04 air?
Takiawase aired 2014-03-21 and is listed at 60 minutes.
Do I need the Lecter films first?
No. Fuller reinterprets Harris's characters rather than continuing a single movie timeline. Treat it as its own beautiful, terrible plate.
In the series
Why this series still plays
Will Graham and Hannibal Lecter in a lethal dance of empathy and appetite: food porn, mind palaces, queer-coded dread. Bryan Fuller's NBC art-house horror pushed network standards for beauty and gore, then died after three seasons into cult immortality. Dancy and Mikkelsen make conversation feel like autopsy. Broadcast cannibal opera — short run, high style, Fannibals still loud.
A plate arrives, and the conversation feels like autopsy. Bryan Fuller developed Thomas Harris's characters for NBC (April 4, 2013) and pushed network standards for beauty and gore until cancellation made *Hannibal* a cult immortal. Hugh Dancy's Will Graham and Mads Mikkelsen's Lecter enter a lethal, intimate dance of empathy and appetite. Gillian Anderson, Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas orbit the table. Crime cases are edible still lifes. Food porn, mind palaces, queer-coded dread. The work is the plating.
Filed against
- Hugh Dancy as Will Graham
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- Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter
Mads Mikkelsen plated empathy as appetite playing Dr. Hannibal Lecter on Hannibal — Will Graham in a lethal dance, food porn, mind palaces, queer-coded dread. Bryan Fuller’s NBC art-house horror pushed network beauty and gore, then died…
- Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford
Laurence Fishburne’s Cowboy Curtis turned Pee-wee’s Playhouse into Saturday-morning surrealism with a drawl — talking furniture, secret-word screaming, art-school kids TV — then brought FBI gravity to Hannibal’s lethal dance of empathy…
- Caroline Dhavernas as Alana Bloom
Caroline Dhavernas played Alana Bloom on Hannibal — Will Graham and Lecter in a lethal dance of empathy and appetite, food porn, mind palaces, queer-coded dread. Bryan Fuller's NBC art-house horror, three seasons into cult immortality. TV…
- Gillian Anderson as Bedelia Du Maurier
Gillian Anderson played Dana Scully on The X-Files — science as a spine, trench-coat will-they that taught the internet how to ship, monster nights beside mythology Sundays. TV Flash files her as FBI cool the tags still drop like a legal…