Cooper, Ophilia, and Miko Technogeisha sit down at Chicago's famous Golden Apple Grill & Breakfast House to discuss their evening's entertainment, seeing The Cornservatory's production of Silence! The Musical. After they discuss their favorite moments and songs, they decide to deconstruct the Hannibal series and give it the autopsy/post mortem it deserves. (So that the final Rudecast episode will no longer be Hannibal Rising)

Silence! The Musical is playing The Cornservatory through August 13th, 2016. If you're in Chicago check it out!

Buy the Silence! The Musical original soundtrack here

The post Silence! The Musical & A Hannibal Post Mortem – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

Well, we pretty much hate on Hannibal Rising for about 90 minutes here. Thankfully this is not the last episode of Eat The Rudecast. Miko has read Hannibal Rising as a novel, and fills in how poorly Thomas Harris adapted his own poorly written novel that he was blackmailed by Dino Di Laurentiis into creating. There is almost nothing to recommend about this film and book, so if you enjoy us complaining, here's some of that!

While we watched the episode, Cooper live tweeted, so enjoy that below.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about The TV series Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Watching Hannibal Rising

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Hannibal Rising – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

Good evening, friends. Cooper here. While I usually take copious notes on episodes and films, I couldn't bring myself to do so for Hannibal Rising, which, unsurprisingly, was just as poor a film as I'd feared.

Instead of taking notes, though, I live tweeted my viewing experience. The podcast comes out next week, but until then…

Watching Hannibal Rising

The post Cooper Live Tweets Hannibal Rising – A Taste of the Podcast To Come appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

We're joined by frequent guest and friend of the show Kate Kulzick, contributor to The AV Club and PopOptiq, and host of our favorite Hannibal podcast This is Our Design and wide ranging TV podcast The Televerse to discuss Ridley Scott's 2001 film Hannibal, the final film in the Anthony Hopkins Lecter trilogy. We all agree that the film is severely flawed, but quite brilliant and beautiful at times. We also get to compare the Florence section of Hannibal Season 3 with the Pazzi storyline in this film.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about The TV series Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Hannibal – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

After the decent Manhunter and the unacceptably mediocre Red Dragon, we tackle Silence of the Lambs, and are quick to point out that we all adore this film. It's one of the greatest horror movies, and certainly the greatest serial killer film of all time. With such pedigree we find it difficult not to wax extensively, and we do so, for nearly four hours. Tonight's episode can be used to gird ourselves for the inevitable disappointment of latter-day Hannibal Lecter with Hannibal Rising.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about The TV series Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Silence of the Lambs – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

We begin the Anthony Hopkins Lecter Trilogy with arguably the worst of the three of them, Red Dragon, an ill advised eleven years later prequel that finds us with an incredibly uninteresting Will Graham in Edward Norton, serviceable at best Dolarhyde and Reba (Ralph Fiennes & Emily Watson), but a more restrained performance from Anthony Hopkins, and a great schlubby performance from Philip Seymour Hoffman as Freddy Lounds. Not going to lie, we're not very positive about this film.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about The TV series Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Red Dragon – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

We're joined by Sean Colletti, the other half of the This is Our Design team to discuss an epic example of '80s movie, Michael Mann's Manhunter, the first filmic adaptation of Red Dragon, as we begin our analysis of the Hannibal Lecter film series. We wade into the Brian Cox VS Anthony Hopkins – Who is the better Hannibal? debate. (Though, it's the better Hannibal, not the BEST, because that is definitely Mads Mikkelson.) The discussion follows the fact that this is a tragically flawed film, and a rather poor adaptation, but it is still often mesmerizing and fascinating.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about The TV series Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

You can find Sean Colletti‘s writing at PopOptiq (Formerly Sound on Sight) and as always we highly recommend the This is Our Design podcast.

The breakdown of scenes from Manhunter, Red Dragon, and Hannibal is here: https://vimeo.com/137513763

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Manhunter – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

For the third season running, Bryan Fuller et al have managed to shock us silent with the revelations and twists that bring the season to the close. With this finale possibly being a bit more final than the other two, we discuss whether it's possible it could've ended better, worse, or even differently. We discuss the omissions from the Red Dragon arc, and whether they were necessary to begin with, and dig deeper into the #Hannigram.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about NBC's Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Shownotes are vast!

The breakdown of scenes from Manhunter, Red Dragon, and Hannibal is here: https://vimeo.com/137513763

The Friends/Hannibal Mashup

Love Crime – Siouxsie Sioux & Brian Reitzell

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QodPtK1tpXc

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Hannibal S03E13 – The Wrath of the Lamb – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

We're joined by an out of town friend, fan of the podcast and the show, Raina, as we discuss the penultimate episode of our season (hopefully not series). Raul Esparza gives his best performance of the series, Richard Armitage creates an otherworldly persona through movement and vocalizations as he truly becomes the dragon. We speculate on the end of this season, discussing what will become of Will Graham. And we talk about Meatloaf. Just ‘cuz.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about NBC's Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Hannibal S03E12 – The Number of the Beast is 666 – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

Formerly NBC's Hannibal goes far off-book with this episode, taking us to a place where we smug book readers are just as uncertain about what is to come in the final two episodes of the season. The Red Dragon is thrown at Will's family in a tense scene of stalking, Hannibal spends as much time as possible fucking with everybody around him, and Will is absolutely done with both Jack Crawford and former BFF Hannibal Lecter.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about NBC's Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Hannibal S03E11 – …And the Beast from the Sea – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.

We're halfway through the Red Dragon arc on Hannibal, and are being given both stunning beauty in the scenes between Dolarhyde and Reba, and stunning acts of CGI crappery (see the below CGI teeth). We go off on several tangents, Cooper calls some fans hipster douchebags and spends a good four minutes angrily ranting about the aforementioned terrible CGI. Find more information about The Great Red Dragon paintings of William Blake here.

All on this episode of Eat The Rudecast, a podcast about NBC's Hannibal, and the works of Thomas Harris.

The Silence of the Lambs trailer we spoke about.

Subscribe via iTunes • Find more Swingset.FM Podcasts

The post Hannibal S03E10 – And the Woman Clothed in Sun – Eat The Rudecast appeared first on Cooper S. Beckett.