Finally a Hannibal episode title I don't have to look up in the dictionary. "Entree" is indeed a satisfying main dish. There are lots of references to "Silence of The Lambs":
- Dr Chilton is the director of the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane. Of course he's a nutos egomaniac himself.
- Gideon fakes an illness to get to the infirmary where he kills a nurse. Hannibal also faked an illness to escape.
- There is a female agent in training that's sent in to get the baddy to spill his guts. Im just glad Clarice didn't end up like Miriam.
- The inmates are kept in fiberglass cells (which makes them even more menacing). I'd rather not see the killers I have to talk with.
- We get another crazy killer doctor (but this one is a surgeon and not a psychiatrist). Kudos to Eddie Izzard for playing Dr Gideon. I'm adding him to my list of people I will run away from should I ever meet them in person.
- Hannibal says “It’s nice to have an old friend for dinner” What a jokster that guy is.
And we see Dr Lecter murder someone for the first time. He's very lizard like. I doubt his heart rate increased at all during that. Was anyone surprised by this development? I was not. If there is a murder Hannibal is either responsible for it, will recreate it later or in the very least is getting a perverse enjoyment out of "investigating" it. The meals continue to be the creepiest part of this show. Was tongue ever really meant to be eaten? Its hideous. And the eye gouging of the nurse was rough to watch.
Dear readers, please be especially vigilant during holiday dinners. Gideon killed his family during Thanksgiving dinner. The Trinity killer on Dexter was menacing his family during Thanksgiving dinner (when Dexter almost killed him). i wonder how many family members really kill each other during the holidays? No pressure but if that turkey doesn't turn out, you may be a goner.
Wikipedia:
Episode 6 "Entrée"
A nurse at the Baltimore State Hospital for the Criminally Insane is murdered by a patient, Dr. Abel Gideon (Eddie Izzard), who begins taking credit for a series of murders perpetrated by the "Chesapeake Ripper", who hasn't committed a murder in two years, the same number of years Gideon has been incarcerated. While Graham tries to discover whether Gideon truly is the Ripper, Crawford receives a phone call, apparently from the real Ripper, which plays the recorded voice of Miriam Lass (Anna Chlumsky), a trainee Crawford had consulting on the Chesapeake Ripper case two years previously when she suddenly disappeared. Bloom and Crawford make a deal with Freddie Lounds to write a story about Gideon, hoping to provoke the real Ripper to make himself visible. Later, Crawford receives another phone call, which they trace to an old observatory, where they find Miriam's cell phone clutched in the hand of a severed arm. A final flashback reveals Miriam's fate: she visits Dr. Lecter to ask about an old patient, Jeremy Olmstead, whom he had come into contact with when working as an ER attendant, who has turned up as the latest Ripper victim. While Lecter excuses himself, Miriam finds one of his sketches of the Wound Man, which precisely matches the manner in which Olmstead was murdered. Lecter sneaks up on her from behind and knocks her unconscious. Dr. Hannibal Lecter is the real Chesapeake Ripper.
Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). Dr. Lecter keeps getting creepier and more intriguing with each episode.
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