Will and hannibal gay

Bryan Fuller's groundbreaking serial killer drama Hannibal has crashed to a close in a Season 3 finale that may yet serve as either a firm conclusion to the story or merely the end of one particular chapter. The final image not counting the post-credits scene of Hannibal Lecter Mads Mikkelsen and Will Graham Hugh Dancy drenched in blood, sharing a close embrace and whispering sweet nothings to one another before tumbling off a cliff was an apt encapsulation of the entire series and the curious relationship at the center of it. As depictions of homosexuality have become progressively less prohibited in television and movies, portraying intimate emotional relationships that don't involve sex seems to have become even more complicated. Alfred Hitchcock's film Strangers on a Train features a relationship between two male characters that is comparable to that between Will and Hannibal, and is widely regarded as having strong homoerotic subtext.

NBC's Hannibal , which aired from to , is a rare example of a show that subverted this trend. In the horror genre, queer characters often fall victim to harmful stereotypes and become targets of the Big Bad, or they are portrayed as monsters themselves. It's surprising, given that horror is often seen as a genre that belongs to the queer community. The lack of representation in a genre that is supposed to provide comfort only exacerbates the sense of exclusion already felt by underrepresented communities.

It got too long, so I had to create another one. Tweet from Tom Deville, one of the show writers :. It felt like he would ask that question. For me, Hannibal has always been a romantic horror story.

Looking back, it is impossible to overstate the intensity of this visually rich serial killer drama's online fandom, much of which focused on the complicated relationship between FBI profiler Will Graham Hugh Dancy and serial killer Hannibal Lecter Mads Mikkelsen. Many shippers reimagined the adversarial push-pull between the two lead characters as a love story, a reading of the show made all the easier by the way Dancy and Mikkelsen played their scenes together. In a recent interview with Entertainment Weekly , showrunner Bryan Fuller revealed that while it may have begun as accidental subtext, the romantic tension between Will and Hannibal was very much on the page as the writers' room was penning what would be the show's third and final season, which saw them reunite in their hunt for the murderer Francis Dolarhyde. He also disclosed that some drafts of the series finale even included a kiss between the two men.