As this season of Hannibal has gone along, I’ve begun to notice more nuance to its scripting by doing “Hannibal by the Numbers” (which is included at the ends of these reviews). The differences between lines of dialogue in episodes seems to follow Fuller’s pattern of alternating between episodes of observation and episodes of participation, to use the metaphor introduced at the beginning of the season. For instance, it’s quite striking and telling that last week’s episode featured the fewest lines of dialogue this season (221, with the leading speaker, Will, having only 46 lines) during its careful introduction of the Red Dragon story, opting to show rather than tell, to use yet another cliché. This week’s episode, “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun…” (subtitle of one of Blake’s Red Dragon paintings), features the most lines of dialogue from an episode this season, notching 387, with leader Hannibal holding…
Hannibal Season 3 Episode 9 Review: “And the Woman Clothed with the Sun…”