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‘Hannibal’ 2×10 Recap: What Does Frightened Taste Like?

Everyone's tangled in the same covers, but not everyone will see the sunrise. 

11:28 AM EDT on April 16, 2026

Will at dinner table
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Hannibal Season 2, Episode 10
"Naka-choko"
Original airdate: April 25, 2014
Writers: Steve Lightfoot, Kai Yu Wu
Director: Vincenzo Natali
Cast: Hugh Dancy, Mads Mikkelsen, Laurence Fishburne, Caroline Dhavernas, Katharine Isabelle


The first season of Hannibal thrived on a fox in the henhouse narrative. Every person tuning into that show knew that Hannibal Lecter was a killer and a cannibal, and so the narrative tension was built not on whether or not he'd wreck everyone's lives, but how he'd do it.