Hannibal

2013 • TMDB 8.3 • 3 seasons • 39 episodes • Drama, Crime • NBC

Overview

Will Graham is the FBI’s most gifted profiler — and its most fragile. He can think like a killer, see what they see and feel what they feel, but every case costs him a piece of himself. To keep him steady, his boss Jack Crawford pairs him with Dr. Hannibal Lecter, a brilliant psychiatrist with exquisite taste. The catch, which the audience knows long before Will does, is that Lecter is himself a serial killer, the Chesapeake Ripper, quietly steering the investigation from inside it. What follows is one of television’s great toxic relationships: a cat-and-mouse game between two men who understand each other better than anyone else alive. Bryan Fuller’s Hannibal is also staggeringly beautiful — a baroque horror of artful murder scenes, lavish dinner parties and operatic dread — and across three seasons it grows from a procedural into a dark, twisted love story.

Creator and Main Cast

Created by Bryan Fuller.

• Mads Mikkelsen as Dr. Hannibal Lecter (39 episodes)
• Hugh Dancy as Will Graham (39 episodes)
• Laurence Fishburne as Jack Crawford (39 episodes)
• Caroline Dhavernas as Dr. Alana Bloom (39 episodes)
• Aaron Abrams as Brian Zeller (27 episodes)
• Scott Thompson as Jimmy Price (27 episodes)
• Gillian Anderson as Dr. Bedelia Du Maurier (21 episodes)
• Kacey Rohl as Abigail Hobbs (13 episodes)
• Lara Jean Chorostecki as Freddie Lounds (13 episodes)

Seasons Snapshot

Hannibal ran for 3 seasons and 39 episodes, with 13 episodes each. Season 1 premiered on April 4, 2013; Season 2 followed in 2014; and Season 3, which takes Hannibal on the run in Europe before adapting the Red Dragon story, concluded with “The Wrath of the Lamb” (3×13) on August 27, 2015.

Why Watch Hannibal?

• Mads Mikkelsen’s Lecter is chilling, charming and unforgettable.
• The Will–Hannibal relationship is television at its most twisted.
• Visually, it is one of the most beautiful horror series ever made.
• A procedural that evolves into operatic psychological horror.
• Season 2’s run of episodes is among the best in TV history.
• A devoted cult following still campaigns for a fourth season.

Trailer

Watch the official trailer on YouTube (eOne, Season 2 trailer).

Where to Watch

As checked on JustWatch US on October 30, 2026, Hannibal streams in the United States on Netflix (3 seasons), Amazon Prime Video (3 seasons), Plex (3 seasons), Netflix Standard with Ads (3 seasons) and Amazon Prime Video with Ads (3 seasons), plus Philo (1 season). It is also available to buy on Amazon Video (1 season).