'Hannibal' Recap [SPOILERS] Season 3 Episode 1 'Antipasto'- NBC Series' 2015 Premiere!

Season two's finale episode left us all in a lurch, so how could Bryan Fuller even begin to follow up last year's event of NBC's Hannibal in the 2015 season three premiere episode, entitled "Antipasto." Dr. Lecter (Mads Mikkelssen) and Dr. Bedilia Du Maurier (Gillian Anderson) were the main focus of episode one, bringing viewers back into the lives of the serial killer and his cohort, captive, wife or enemy ... we're really not sure after her storyline in the previous seasons, but we know we're in for some twists and turns this summer. Check out our recap of the season premiere episode of arguably one of the best shows on TV right here! (SPOILERS to follow!)

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Did you get chills during the "previously on" opening? Yeah, we thought so.

It turns out Hannibal has a thing for countries' capitals as we find him making his way through the streets of Paris, France on a motorcycle, showing up at a party with the new name that he soon replaces!

He finds his target early in this episode, as we find him sitting down for dinner before the title sequence plays. We're assuming his meal's wife also joins her husband because of what happens next.

We get our first flashback showing an extension of Dr. Abel Gidion's dinner with Hannibal from last season, which of course had his own leg on the table. This quickly jumps to the present, where we get our first glimpse of Bedilia. She's posing as Hannibal's wife-or should we say the wife of the identity he has taken, Dr. Fell. But we knew this going into the episode thanks to some previews and trailers.

Their relationship isn't sexual, and clearly isn't safe at all- but we're not sure which person is in more danger, still. Bedilia was always fearful of Hannibal, so will she turn on him? How deep will she get with this facade? Well, we learn that Lecter has some dirt on his former psychiatrist: it turns out she did kill one of her patients that attacked her. She called Hannibal for help afterwards, which is what he holds over her because it didn't look like self defense. This flashback comes later in the episode, and it is nuts, you guys!

In another flashback, we see just how Bedilia came to be seated next to Hannibal on the plane in the closing scenes of last season. Holding him at gunpoint, Bedilia asks Lecter a series of questions that were on all of our minds last years, including: why did he reveal himself to Will? He doesn't give a straight answer, though, so don't you can stop holding your breath.

We do get to see Gidion and Lecter talking about cannibalism once again in a flashback, which is obviously a treat for the audience. This time, snails are involved, soaking up ride wine off of Gidion's severed arm. This is the Hannibal we know and love!

Meanwhile, that poet from earlier, Dimmond, comes back into play, remembering Hannibal's other fake name, eventually finding out that Lecter is using Fell's identity. After having Dimmond over for dinner without eating him (though it was definitely as creepy), the poet sits in on one of the doctor's lectures as Fell, thus discovering the truth. How does he react? Only in the weirdest way, of course! 

Dimmond offers his allegiance, which we're sure all of you were shaking your respective heads at. Things don't go well for this new character, obviously, but what happens during the crime is what has us excited for the rest of the season.

Bedilia, who was actually trying to flee when Lecter brought Dimmond home for the last time, witnesses the end of the poet. Though she doesn't "participate," choosing to "observe" instead, she finds herself falling deeper in this hole she's found herself in.

Throughout the episode, we saw how Bedilia suffered as a sort of captive, but when she finally got the bravery to leave, she was basically forced into staying, i.e. legal implications in Lecter's latest murder/meal. Will Hannibal want her around? Will she make it out of the 2015 alive? Will she try to strike back?

The premiere ends with one more Gidion flashback, showing the mutilated doctor threatening Lecter in what we might take as foreshadowing. He keeps saying someone will eat Lecter one day, but that can't be right, can it? 

From the looks of the preview following the premiere, we get to see Will in episode two, entitled "Primavera." We have an Italian motif this year! Hannibal left him a gift of sorts.

Are you pleased with how the show started off 2015? Let us know what you thought of the season 3 premiere episode of Hannibal, "Antipasto," in the comments section below!