Though the series is still bracingly audacious, season two too often opts for full-throated fan service.
NBC’s Hannibal ran for three seasons, but its concept called for at least twice as many.
The dialogue is as polished, overheated, and savory as one can routinely expect from creator Bryan Fuller.
Cronenberg’s flawed but promising feature debut gets an almost immaculate Blu-ray transfer, as well as some solid supplements.
It’s set in a horror realm we might imagine when we indulge our worst fears of the hideous forms the civilized world is capable of assuming.