In the gloom of Lithuania, Will Graham and Chiyoh come to agree on at least one thing: “All sorrows can be borne if you put them in a story.” Fiction as a coping mechanism is not something unfamiliar to readers of books and viewers of film and television. Often, the willingness to give yourself over to a story comes from its potential to be cathartic, since you can live vicariously through its characters without having to experience their pain first-hand. Or, if that kind of pain has already been experienced, the story helps shoulder some of it by creating the illusion that you are sharing that experience with someone else. “Secondo” shows how the story of Hannibal also helps us bear something other than sorrow—horror. Not strictly a horror series, Hannibal terrifies in ways that are more psychological and philosophical than physical and immediate. It is by taking on the…
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