I Usually Hate Gorey Shows And Don't Watch Them - Tumblr Posts

the best proof I can give of Hannibal being an exceptional show is the fact that I hate horror. I don’t watch it and I don’t enjoy it.

BUT

Hannibal is the exception. I literally stopped halfway through the first season when I was watching it for the first time because I struggled with the gore and intense scenes. but I couldn’t resist and had to come back. I literally couldn’t stop thinking about it. And then I stopped again before Trou Normand because I saw a photo of the totem pole and was like this is too much. Then I was like I HAVE TO WATCH IT EVEN IF I HAVE TO COVER HALF OF THE SCENES WITH MY HAND BECAUSE OTHERWISE I’LL GO CRAZY. so I continued and I finished it and then I had to immediately watch it again.

By my second rewatch I was able to watch all of the gruesome and bloody scenes and even started appreciating them.

Now I love the scenes as much as every other scene in Hannibal. I love the show’s combination of gore and beauty and romance and symbolism and humour so much.

And I still don’t enjoy horror as a genre but oh my god how impressed I am by Hannibal because of this experience.