Students can feast their eyes on a new television series about the infamous, but fictional, cannibalistic psychiatrist known as Hannibal.

The show is a prequel to the books and the movie. Dr. Hannibal is not yet the crazed serial killer who is locked up; he is a psychiatrist who kills and eats people in his home.

“Hannibal” focuses on Jack Crawford (Laurence Fishburne) finding the FBI’s most unstable profiler and pairing him up with a psychiatrist who happens to have a taste for human. The chosen FBI profiler, Will Graham, and Hannibal must find a serial killer who murders women with deer antlers.

The first scene of the show was very graphic. Graham (Hugh Dancy) walks into the main crime scene and sees the victims. Flashes of light cover the screen due to a flashback, and Graham is suddenly at the crime scene the night of the murders: He is able to picture himself as the killer and sees how the victims were killed. His character does this the whole episode for each new victim that is found. I loved it more and more each time.

Mads Mikkelsen plays a perfectly creepy, yet very suave and sophisticated Hannibal. His role in the show is to watch over and act as a mentor for Graham and make sure the killers are caught.

In this episode, Hannibal called up the killer and told him the FBI knew what he was up to and they where coming after him. By the end of the episode I was really a fan of Hannibal, even if he may have fed Graham some lung in his breakfast. There is still something about his character fans might actually like.

The climax of this episode was insane and it made my jaw hit the floor. I was shocked at what was happening on the screen, but I couldn’t bare to look away. Without giving too much away, I want to warn viewers to be ready for anything extreme. By extreme I mean if they were allowed to do it on TV without getting into any kind of trouble, they managed to do it.

I really enjoyed Fishburne, Dancy and Mikkelsen’s chemistry together. “Hannibal” is beautifully directed, well-written, and every scene has so much meaning behind it. I will definitely be tuning in next week to see if Hannibal offers Graham any more human meat. “Hannibal” airs 9 p.m. Thursdays on NBC.