Hannibal
...And the Beast from the Sea
TV Flash files “...And the Beast from the Sea” as hour 37 of 39 in the TV Flash guide — Hannibal (2013–2015) on NBC, season 3, episode 11, aired 2015-08-15, 60 min.
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How this hour is filed
This leaf is S03E11: listed hour 37 of 39 in the Hannibal guide, hour 11 of 13 in season 3. It aired 2015-08-15 (60 min). The listed hour before it is “...And the Woman Clothed in Sun” (S03E10). Next is “The Number of the Beast is 666” (S03E12).
Catalog log
Broadcast listing — not a TV Flash recap.
Will Graham and Jack Crawford are certain that Francis Dolarhyde will strike again with the approaching full moon, but without a solid lead, they remain unable to predict the next family on the Red Dragon's hit list. Certain that Hannibal Lecter can lead the FBI to Dolarhyde, Alana Bloom offers Hannibal a chance at redemption. Meanwhile, Dolarhyde struggles with his feelings about the one good thing that remains in his life-his coworker Reba.
Viewer FAQ
Where does ...And the Beast from the Sea sit in the Hannibal guide?
S03E11 is listed hour 37 of 39 — hour 11 of 13 in season 3, season 3 episode 11.
When did Hannibal S03E11 air?
...And the Beast from the Sea aired 2015-08-15 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…