Something that has separated Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal, since its first episode, from other series involving serial killers is its handling of violence. The ways that the show observes and interprets acts of violence are carefully considered, as opposed to rushed jobs for the sake of moving a plot along. It’s easier to murder a bunch of people on-screen in a shocking way and shift to the next key moment of a narrative than it is to linger on those killings and let them steep into the viewer’s psyche. While aiming for slightly different aesthetic goals in the first seven episodes of this season (which had many viewers questioning the direction of the series), Hannibal returns to this key distinction regarding violence in “The Great Red Dragon” in full force. In fact, I would go so far as to say that this is the most disturbing episode of the series thus…
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