Hannibal 3x03: "Secondo"

[cleolinda]

This recap is entirely ridiculous with the pictures and the book quotes and the movie references and the background research and I'm not even sorry because this third season is all we have left, you guys. The show's throwing in everything plus the kitchen sink, so I might as well follow suit

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FOOTNOTE: Death and the Maiden

[cleolinda]

Supposedly, the film Death and the Maiden was going to be another inspiration for the episode, based on the movies Bryan Fuller listed last summer; I don't know to what degree that actually panned out. Which is fine with me, because the play/film Death and the Maiden is not a fun time. It involves the victim of a fascist regime interrogating a man she believes to have been her captor-rapist--at her house after a chance encounter, while her husband flails in horror--posing the question of whether she's terrorizing an innocent man, or putting someone who genuinely wronged her "on trial." I must have seen the movie at least fifteen years ago, and since it's a Polanski film, I won't be seeing it again, so I can't say whether there are visual homages in "Secondo." It may be that the idea that Death and the Maiden film and this episode have in common, albeit in the vaguest way, is the general idea of a woman confronting a man about a crime he may have committed. Really, though, this episode resonates more with the medieval theme of Death