Seven to air ‘banned’ Hannibal episode
Seven will air an episode of Hannibal pulled from the NBC schedule due to a storyline involving children murdering other children.
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Next week Seven will air an episode of US drama series Hannibal, which was pulled from the NBC schedule due to a storyline involving children murdering other children.
The serial killer series features Molly Shannon’s character brainwashing kids, leading them to kill other children.
Series creator Bryan Fuller asked NBC to drop Episode Four “Cuef” following Sandy Hook shootings and the Boston bombings.
Fuller was concerned about the cultural climate in the U.S. but there were no concerns in screening the episode internationally.
“I didn’t want to have anyone come to the show and have a negative experience,” Fuller told Variety. “Whenever you [write] a story and look at the sensational aspects of storytelling, you think, ‘This is interesting metaphorically, and this is interesting as social commentary.’ With this episode, it wasn’t about the graphic imagery or violence. It was the associations that came with the subject matter that I felt would inhibit the enjoyment of the overall episode. … It was my own sensitivity.”
NBC eventually offered a package of clips from the episode online with Fuller discussing the series.
This week on Hannibal, after the brutal murder of an otherwise happy family, Will and Jack uncover a string of child kidnappings where it seems the children have turned against their parents.
A massacred family is discovered seated at a perfectly-set dinner table. Jack notes that the family’s son was abducted not long ago; could the murder be an extension of that? The answer is yes, but not in the way anyone imagined…the murderer is the abducted child, returning in an act of vengeance.
In his brainwashed mind, the child’s family didn’t love him; otherwise, they would have tried harder to rescue him from his captor. Will deduces that the abductor is a woman attempting to build her own family, manipulating the children she kidnaps to turn against their biological parents. In the midst of this, Hannibal works with Abigail to come to terms with her own broken, lost family.
10:30pm Wednesday May 8 on Seven.
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So they dropped one violent, bloody, gory episode and moved on to the next one huh? Besides nothing will top that thing with the mushrooms. Ugh.
The clips they released were just Weird!!
I like the concept of the show but I’m starting to lose interest…. It is getting a little bit too full on!
Thanks for the news, this ep aired in Korea I think, well at least some place with Asian subtitles.
It is weird they make a program like this, given the subject matter and they worry about what the audiance might think? If you don’t like the subject matter then don’t watch it!
I do wonder if this was on cable in the US would it have aired?
FYI, Fuller had already approached NBC regarding not airing this before the Boston Bombing actually occured. Seems to me its pretty much been his own sensibilities towards the episode that have been misconstrued by the media in regards to pulling the episode, not specifically with anything else. And, I’m not really sure where Fuller is coming from… the episode was written, cast, filmed and almost on the air before his own sensibilities about the episode felt he needed this not to be seen. Has he seen any of the other episodes in his own series?!?
Regardless, it’s great that Seven is airing this. Doesn’t seem like it will last beyond a season anyway so take all the episodes we can get…