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1. #MR. PREPPER BLESS THE PRESIDENT PC#
2. #MR. PREPPER BLESS THE PRESIDENT SERIES#
3. #MR. PREPPER BLESS THE PRESIDENT TV#

Hannibal was about finding one’s true self and with the help of a friend and embracing it, societal standards be damned. Hannibal tells Will, “This is all I ever wanted for you,” to which Will responds, “It’s beautiful,” and it truly was, as Will takes Hannibal in his embrace and takes the both of them over a cliff as original music from Siouxsie Sioux plays over the credits.

Hannibal was a romance at its core, and after puddles of blood and piles of bone, it ended with that romance symbolically consummated with Will and Hannibal’s savagely beautiful cutting down of the Red Dragon Francis Dolarrhyde (Richard Armitage). That heart was the alluring, potent, and powerful vaguely homoerotic relationship between Hannibal and Will.

#MR. PREPPER BLESS THE PRESIDENT SERIES#

Essentially broken down into two mini-series, the chase for Hannibal in Italy followed by a re-imagining of the legendary Red Dragon plotline, it was fascinating to watch this show jump from plot to plot while keeping the heart of the series intact. With Hugh Dancy’s Will Graham chasing down Mads Mikkelsen’s Hannibal Lecter to Florence in season 3, the show completely broke type and elevated itself to one of the great contemporary stories. As wildly experimental and visually adventurous as the first two seasons of this excellent show were, they remained rooted in something of a psychedelic macabre procedural format. And while I must admit some bias in that I re-capped the entire season for Forbes and had great fun doing so, I don’t think I’m alone in this opinion. While it was hard to narrow down this list it wasn’t hard to pick my clear favorite show of 2015. Sometimes I feel like a fraud art critic because I watch and obsess over so much TV, but then I realize, EVERYONE does. No other art form inspires that level of obsession from me. When James Gandolfini died, my friend Tony Soprano died with him. Why wouldn’t a 10-hour story work better than a two-hour movie? It’s wonderful to get to know these characters, to REALLY know them. It’s almost crazy that it took this long to figure out. Now that networks have realized smart storytelling can still be profitable, the sky is the limit. Television just works differently because it is so sprawling. Mad Men theorists have replaced Blade Runner theorists. No other medium is inspiring this level of obsessive fandom. No other medium is uniting high and low culture in such an entertaining manner. I understand that we still have some promising movies on the horizon (The Hateful 8, The Big Short, the Revenant), but at the time of this writing, television is killing cinema in storytelling find one film that was better written than this most recent season of Fargo and aesthetics can Ellis really argue that anything looked better than the lush grotesque world of Hannibal? I feel comfortable saying that television is right now the most important art form in our culture. Perhaps television simply allows the screen presentation to be closest to its writer’s conception? While Ellis says he finds himself still leaning towards cinema because television is a writer’s medium and film a director’s medium, I pose the possibility that television might be working better these days exactly because of that. There have only been a handful of 2-hour films in 2015 that I can honestly say that I loved (might write about those later). But any film not starring Iron Man these days is also painfully budgeted.

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Yes, TV is often budgeted smaller than film.

But Ellis’s opinion that TV will always pale in comparison to cinema, merely due to aesthetics, I simply cannot get behind.

#MR. PREPPER BLESS THE PRESIDENT PC#

I too I find this PC #loveme culture to be depressing and dangerous (how much progress can we expect to have or how much can we learn if we are all so afraid of saying anything offensive that we stay completely silent on everything?). Nine times out of 10, his contrarian opinions are dead ringers for my own. I am a begrudging uber fan of Bret Easton Ellis.