14 reasons TV will be boring without Hannibal 

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Time to say goodbye to this well-dressed fella (Picture: The Associated Press)

What you hear is the noise of thousands of Fannibals gnashing their teeth in despair, for Hannibal is no more.

The current third season will be its last, unless someone else swoops in to save it (*cough* Netflix). So, with Hannibal preparing to leave us, here is why TV will be dull without its gleefully mental gore and pomp.

Sure, the show also stars the likes of Hugh Dancy, Laurence Fishburne and Gillian Anderson, but it’s really the Mads Mikkelsen show. TV will be 70 per cent less dapper and ambiguous in his absence.

It’s not entirely clear when Hannibal decided to just become an art-house TV show, but that’s basically what it is now.

Hannibal is the best-looking cookery show on TV. You know it should repulse you, but it makes you kind of hungry.

Hannibal is pretty much insane at all times, but it also studied actual insanity from inside the mind of someone suffering from it. Will’s bout of encephalitis led to some of the most disorienting, unsettling and inventive scenes on TV.

Sure, Eddie Izzard’s in quite a lot these days, but does he cannibalise himself or perform a Columbian Necktie in any of his other shows? Does he heck.

Abigail Hobbs is alive! Miriam Lass is also alive! So is Freddie Lounds! Wait, I’m spotting a theme here…

The cast of Hannibal. (Picture: Elisabeth Caren/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank via Getty Images)

It’s amazing how quickly you get over the queasy stage and instead start marvelling at the macabre minds of the writers and prosthetics team. Human cello? Check. Human beehive? Why not. Totem pole made of body parts? Well, we’ve come this far, may as well go all the way.

Hannibal might be an opera-loving psychiatrist in a three-piece suit, but he’s also pretty handy in a knife fight.

Most shows would have dragged out the ‘Hannibal is a secret serial killer’ status quo for six seasons. Hannibal managed one season before Will was onto him – and in prison for his crimes.

Mads Mikkelsen as Hannibal Lecter. (Picture: Brooke Palmer/NBC/NBCU Photo Bank)

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Thanks to Mads Mikkelsen, Hannibal has sexual chemistry with literally every character on the show, and even some of the furniture. He’s a gift to slash fiction writers.

When he takes offence at someone being rude or uncivilised, you almost urge him to kill them. Which can’t be entirely healthy.

The best-named and best-dressed character on TV, played by Gillian Anderson, in goddess mode.

Remember that time Will coughed up an ear? Of course you do – who could possibly scrub that image from their mind?

Actually, I can live without the slo-mo stags. I never really understood that choice of imagery.

MORE: Here’s what Hannibal might look like if it was an actual show about cooking

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