A quirky dog-loving professor with Asperger's Syndrome at the FBI training center is called upon to use his unique ability to empathize with psychotics, psychopaths, maniacs, dipsomaniacs, sociopaths, dementia praecox sufferers, etc. to help find a serial killer of young girls. He is joined by a highly respected but mysterious psychiatrist - named HANNIBAL LECTOR! There is also a beautiful but brilliant lady FBI agent/psychologist/something that may or may not be in love with Our Hero.
Lector is fascinated with Our Hero and toys with him while (possibly?!?!) committing addition similar murders just to muddy the waters. Lector likes to watch the investigator and the FBI squirm and run around confused, but ultimately saves the day. Lector also likes to prepare meals for his buddies which just might contain bits of his victims. Large chunks of the pilot are consumed by Our Hero's extended backwards hallucinatory visions from the killer's point of view, leaving surprisingly little time for character and/or plot development.
OK- so now American Horror Story has spawned The Following, The Cult, Bates Motel, and probably other graphically bloody horror programs this year. This is sort of a melding of the new American Horror show and the slightly older genre of quirky police investigators. It also follows Bates Motel and Elementary by being one of the baffling (to me) prequels to familiar stories set in modern times.
This was quite probably the most grisly one yet: with a body gored on a buck head, livers and lungs cut out and chopped up, throats slashed, blood and yeech splattered all over everything and everybody, 'funny' medical examiners, etc. etc.
I'll probably give this at least one more try; but these shows - despite the buckets of blood, tricky (i.e. unresolved) story lines, plus dramatic lighting and music - are quickly becoming bloody bores.
OK- so now American Horror Story has spawned The Following, The Cult, Bates Motel, and probably other graphically bloody horror programs this year. This is sort of a melding of the new American Horror show and the slightly older genre of quirky police investigators. It also follows Bates Motel and Elementary by being one of the baffling (to me) prequels to familiar stories set in modern times.
This was quite probably the most grisly one yet: with a body gored on a buck head, livers and lungs cut out and chopped up, throats slashed, blood and yeech splattered all over everything and everybody, 'funny' medical examiners, etc. etc.
I'll probably give this at least one more try; but these shows - despite the buckets of blood, tricky (i.e. unresolved) story lines, plus dramatic lighting and music - are quickly becoming bloody bores.
By the way: The ultimate solution in the pilot is like something from a run of the mill Law and Order: SVU episode.
