Hannibal Season 1, Episode 5
"Coquilles"
Original airdate: April 25, 2013
Writer: Scott Nimerfro and Bryan Fuller
Director: Guillermo Navarro
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Laurence Fishburne, Gina Torres
The dawn of shows like CSI: Crime Scene Investigation around the turn of the millennium gave TV viewers a fresh perspective on just how graphic their favorite shows could get under the guise of investigative accuracy. Suddenly, your friend's mom was an expert on blood splatter analysis and obsessed with things like camera positions tracking inside a person's bullet wounds. Network television grew more graphic than ever before, but even by those standards, Hannibal constantly pushed the envelope.