Hannibal Season 2: 10 Reasons You Should Be Watching

8. Hugh Dancy Was Robbed For An Emmy

Let's talk for a second about Will Graham. This character is a singularly unique one in a television landscape so full of white male FBI investigators. As a man who empathizes with everyone, especially serial killers, his growing sense of unease with himself forms the dramatic arc of season one, as he progresses more and more towards being an almost completely unreliable narrator. Such a performance would be difficult to play for any actor, but infinitely rewarding when one gets it right. Enter Hugh Dancy. At the start of episode one, he brings an almost neurotic sensibility to his character, effective in his role as special investigator, with some hints at how disturbing he is finding his job. When he takes the role of the "killer" in his own imagination, his cold analysis is more chilling than if we were watching the actual killer commit the crimes he was investigating. As the series progresses, Dancy sells the growing mental and emotional instability of Graham as he starts suffering from the trauma he has experienced. This is a gut wrenching performance, and his lack of an Emmy nomination is duly unjust.