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The answer is that it was never really an NBC show.
(Fuller has cited David Lynch, Mario Bava, and Tony Scotts vampire filmThe Hungeras key influences.
The series is no more a realistic portrait of FBI profiling thanVertigois of private detectives.
Nothing that happens on the show tries to seem believable.
There was a similar blur happening in the characterizations.
Lecter and Grahams relationship slowly morphed into a barely coded same-sex love story.
By year three,Hannibalfreed itself from mainstream TVs shackles.
