Hannibal
Futamono
TV Flash files “Futamono” as hour 19 of 39 in the TV Flash guide — Hannibal (2013–2015) on NBC, season 2, episode 6, aired 2014-04-04, 60 min.
From the desk
How this hour is filed
This leaf is S02E06: listed hour 19 of 39 in the Hannibal guide, hour 6 of 13 in season 2. It aired 2014-04-04 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “Mukōzuke” (S02E05). Next is “Yakimono” (S02E07).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
When a city councilman's body is found in a parking lot, intertwined with a tree, the artistry and missing organs suggest the work of the Chesapeake Ripper. Jack and the team race against time to catch the Ripper while he's still on his killing spree. When Will suggests the possibility that the Ripper is filling his pantry with the victims' organs, Jack crashes Hannibal Lecter's dinner party to collect evidence and test the meat for human DNA. Jack's growing suspicions drive Alana even closer to Hannibal, believing he is the victim of a witch hunt. Meanwhile, clues from the tree man help the BAU zero in on a location they believe the Ripper used. There they discover the most shocking revelation of Jack Crawford's career; Miriam Lass alive.
Viewer FAQ
Where does Futamono sit in the Hannibal guide?
S02E06 is listed hour 19 of 39 — hour 6 of 13 in season 2, season 2 episode 6.
When did Hannibal S02E06 air?
Futamono aired 2014-04-04 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
Hugh Dancy's Will Graham danced empathy into appetite on Hannibal — food porn, mind palaces, queer-coded dread, Bryan Fuller's NBC art-house horror that pushed beauty and gore, then died after three seasons into cult immortality. TV Flash…
- 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…