If these reviews have made semi-consistent references to “Mizumono,” it’s because that episode of Hannibal—the Season 2 finale—had such a tremendous impact not only on the series as a whole, but on critical television culture. It is, without exaggeration or misuse of vocabulary, a cinematic masterpiece that is wholly unique among broadcast programming (on cable, Rectify sometimes approaches those artistic heights, but that’s about it). Strangely enough, even though “Mizumono” stands head and shoulders above any other episode of Hannibal, the impact is a culmination of power and not something unprecedented within the series. That is to say that David Slade (director), Bryan Fuller and Steve Lightfoot (co-writers) didn’t do anything new or different in terms of what Hannibal does on a weekly basis in the hour. They just crafted the experience as a climax of all of Hannibal’s powers and made it the high water mark. “Dolce,” as a…
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