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Hannibal (2013-2015)

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"Explores the early relationship between renowned psychiatrist Hannibal Lecter and a young FBI criminal profiler who is haunted by his ability to empathize with serial killers." - IMDB I’ve seen Silence of the Lambs several times. It’s definitely one of my favorite films, at least top 100. Hannibal Lecter is an interesting character, and as a Mads Mikkelsen fan, I just couldn’t pass on the opportunity to watch this show.  Spoiler Alert. Season 1 Starting with season 1 – While the show is called Hannibal, this show is more about Will Graham’s relationship with Hannibal more than anything else. Hannibal actually acts as a side character, at least at first, which is really genius. In fact it takes a very long time to actually see Hannibal attack or kill anyone, though we know what he’s up to. The show didn’t waste time in letting Hannibal pull a Mrs. Lovette to feed Will his “special sausage” with some breakfast egg scramble. That’s it, that’s the series. Hannibal making friends

Avengers Assemble (2012-2019)

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"The further adventures of the Marvel Universe's mightiest general membership superhero team." - IMDB Season 1  Right off the bat I gotta gush about the voice actors, as they are why I had to give this show a chance - Laura Bailey, Travis Willingham, Troy Baker, Fred Tatasciore, Liam O'Brien, Grey Griffin, Jennifer Hale, Matt Mercer, Corey Burton, Clancy Brown, Phil LaMarr, and so many others. Pretty much everyone you've ever heard in animation was in this at least for one episode. Now my Marvel experience is exclusively form the MCU so this was a fresh change of pace with stories and characters pulled form the comics that the MCU just hasn't visited yet. And honestly, for good reason. There are just things that work in the comics and this show that I don't think would work well with the films. Like Modok... Red Skull was a main villain and we saw appearances of the Dracula? There was Dinosaur Island with Dinosaurs with weapons ... There was that one time