Sky Living HD serves up a second course of the hit US drama Hannibal
TX: 6TH MAY AT 10PM ON SKY LIVING HD
"Stylish, classy and absolutely terrifying… The Rolls Royce of serial killer thrillers"
Heat
“The show is slick with gore and Peckinpahishly brutal.”
Sunday Times Culture
“Visually arresting US drama series.”
Event, Mail on Sunday
Wednesday 16th April 2014
The celebrated second series of the hit US show, Hannibal returns to Sky Living HD on the 6th May at 10pm, with more shocking revelations and games of psychological cat and mouse. We join the new series to find Will Graham (Hugh Dancy) is locked in a mental asylum accused of Hannibal Lecter's crimes (Mads Mikkelsen). Now that Will sees Hannibal for what he truly is, he faces a fight to prove his own sanity and convince those closest to him he is innocent of murder. Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) is dealing with his own feelings about Will, and whether his protégé is in fact a cold-blooded killer.
Looking for answers, Jack turns to a man he has come to trust: Hannibal Lecter. With Will locked up, Hannibal becomes Jack's new consultant on cases. Hannibal is torn between self- preservation and his desire to keep Will close to him, despite advice from his psychiatrist Bedelia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson) to stay away. The deadly dance between these characters continues to turn in startling and unexpected ways, in a season that will show nothing can ever be the same again...
Supporting roles in the series include Gillian Anderson as Lecter’s therapist and Cynthia Nixon who will play Kade Prurnell an FBI Oversight employee. Michael Pitt also joins the cast this season to play the notorious character Mason Verger.
The first series of Hannibal is available On Demand now.
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