kindkit has just started watching Hannibal post-Christmas, and we're doing an episode-discussion watch along thing at his and my journals as we've done with stuff before - Episode One discussion up at his journal now, if you're interested to look at some of things people are saying (you'd be very welcome to chat too, no need to commit to anything i.e. necessarily watching it all, but academic discussion can help with distance?)
One thing I realised re-watching episode one for the discussion yesterday was that it is in many ways the most grim dark and 'real' of the episodes - it's more like a procedural, there are all those dead girls (which is such a cliche, and, as I've said, 'suffering women' is not really an ongoing theme). Now, there is more *gore* per se in some other eps but _ I would argue - greater detachment from connecting to the real world.
That said, I don't want you having nightmares! *hugs* I would honestly recommend you skip episode 6 of S1. However, I think one could make the case for you reading about episodes 2-6 (either on wikipedia or via our discussion) and then watching Ep 7 and Ep8, which ND and I call the 'romcom episodes' - still violent, but that's the point where the series really does leap off into more camp and ridiculousness and also much more queerness. Still gory, but... well certainly only *as* gory as Ep 1 and in - I think - much less 'real' context. And then you could see if you wanted to persist past that (as I've said, if you ever want me to give you a content rundown for an ep before you watch, I'm happy to do it *g*)
![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
no subject
Date: 2015-12-31 10:25 am (UTC)One thing I realised re-watching episode one for the discussion yesterday was that it is in many ways the most grim dark and 'real' of the episodes - it's more like a procedural, there are all those dead girls (which is such a cliche, and, as I've said, 'suffering women' is not really an ongoing theme). Now, there is more *gore* per se in some other eps but _ I would argue - greater detachment from connecting to the real world.
That said, I don't want you having nightmares! *hugs* I would honestly recommend you skip episode 6 of S1. However, I think one could make the case for you reading about episodes 2-6 (either on wikipedia or via our discussion) and then watching Ep 7 and Ep8, which ND and I call the 'romcom episodes' - still violent, but that's the point where the series really does leap off into more camp and ridiculousness and also much more queerness. Still gory, but... well certainly only *as* gory as Ep 1 and in - I think - much less 'real' context. And then you could see if you wanted to persist past that (as I've said, if you ever want me to give you a content rundown for an ep before you watch, I'm happy to do it *g*)