Hannibal Episode 8 Recap: Fromage (No Thanks, Im Lactose Intolerant)



"Fromage" was one of the best episodes to date IMHO. We've seen a number of other crazy killers but we haven't seen anyone on the level of Tobias. As you recall from last week, Hannibal is counseling a cheese connoisseur named Franklin. Franklin is friends with Tobias. Why they are friends, I don not know because they don't seem to have much in common. 

Anyway, Franklin is convinced Tobias is killing people. This seems to interest Hannibal because let's face it. Otherwise Franklin is really boring. Tobias is indeed killing people. He offed a symphony trombone player and used his vocal cords as strings for a cello. Eeeeewwww. I do think he should have done that to a cellist instead though. You played the instrument and then you became the instrument. 

The best part of the episode was the dialogue when Hannibal invited Tobias for dinner. Hannibal finds out Tobias has been following him at night-- not good. Tobias says "I could use a friend, someone who can understand me.” Hannibal doesn't need friends. "Then why did you invite me to dinner?" “I was going to kill you" replies Lecter. What a jokster that guy is. 

Hannibal tips off Will. He goes to the music studio. Will goes outside and when he returns the two police officers and Tobias as missing. Will goes into the basement which looks eerily like the one in "Silence of the Lambs". Yep they're dead and Will is almost killed. We know he won't die because he's "Will".  

Tobias escapes and heads to Hannibal's office where he's in a session with Franklin. Franklin says he can turn himself in, blah, blah, blah. Hannibal snaps Franklin's neck from behind. Who among us didn't want to do that? Hannibal and Tobias fight to the death. That was a good fight. Lecter eventually gets the upper hand and bashes Tobias with that elk sculpture we've seen in his office previously. Bye bye Tobias. 

I also really enjoyed Hannibal's scenes with his therapist Dr. du Maurier. She had previously been attacked by a patient and that's why she retired. Does he want to be friends with her? It seems like she doesn't want any friends. It's the same conversation Hannibal previously had with Tobias. If not friendship, whats he planning to do to her? Or what is she planning to do to him? That would be a fun twist. Their scenes were too short though. More please. 

Per Wikipedia, Fromage frais is a creamy soft cheese made with whole or skimmed milk and cream. It has the consistency of cream cheese, but with less food energy and cholesterol

Grade: 4 Monsters (out of 5). Dueling psychopaths was great fun. I just wish Tobias could have hung around longer. And I wish Franklin could have croaked it in a more painful way. I have also come to the conclusion that serial killers are very neat art patrons who are also snappy dressers.

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