Anthony Hopkins and Jodie Foster starring cult classic ‘Silence of the Lambs’ released in 1991 and has a whopping 8.6 rating on IMDb. Director Jonathan Demme, through this film, gave the world one of the most celebrated characters till date namely Hannibal Lecter. Fans of the psychological thriller have taken quite the interest in the former psychologist turned criminal due to his cannibalistic nature. The film centres around FBI agent and criminologist Clarice Starling who, with the help of serial killer Hannibal, tries to solve another mystery of an unknown killer claiming female lives. Recently, a TV show titled Clarice has made its way on CBS and it is a sequel to the famous film.
In comparison to Hannibal
The psychological horror drama gets its name from the lead character of the 1991 film, Clarice Starling and it is created by Jenny Lumet and Alex Kurtzman. Set a year after the FBI agent busted Buffalo Bill and it seems like all the heavy promotion that CBS invested in this show paid off as more than four million people tuned in to catch the season premiere of this series. NBC show Hannibal first aired in 2013 and has had three seasons till then. As the name suggests, this show was also a spin-off of sorts to The Silence of the Lambs and based on famous cannibal and psychologist turned criminal, Hannibal Lecter. During the time of its premiere, Hannibal also had more than four million viewers tuned in but as the series moved towards its finale, viewership dropped down to a little more than a million. Whether Clarice will face the same fat, or better, no one knows yet.
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About the show
Clarice dives deep into the agent’s untold life story and how, being a woman in the 90s, she tackled office politics, patriarchy and high rates of sexual predator crimes while maintaining a great track record and outshining almost all in her academy. The show stars Rebecca Breeds (Three Summers, 2017), Michael Cudlitz (Southland, 2009), Kal Penn (Harold & Kumar Go to White Castle, 2004), Jayne Atkinson (Free Willy, 1993), Marnee Carpenter (Wild Oats, 2016), Nick Sandow (The Wannabe, 2015) as well as Tim Guinee (Sweet Land, 2005).