#tartuffe

ROUND 1 — Match 5 of 138

Bedelia du Maurier (Hannibal)

Problematic because: "she’s hannibal’s psychiatrist, she knows he’s dangerous earlier than most people, and she still keeps circling him because fear is Nawt the only thing she feels there. her past with neal frank is a huge part of it - he was hannibal’s former patient, he attacked her and she kills him, but bedelia later admits that what happened went beyond self-defence and into murder under hannibal’s influence. then season 3 takes it further because she runs away with hannibal to florence, helps live under the stolen identities of roman and lydia fell, stands by while hannibal keeps killing, and then later tries to build herself an alibi by making it look like she was drugged and helpless the whole time. she’s not hannibal’s innocent captive. she’s scared of him, yes, but she’s also curious, self-protective, complicit, and very good at turning her own involvement into something cleaner when people start asking questions." Propaganda: 1. "shes honestly one of the funniest hannibal characters to me because she spends half the show speaking in this calm, therapist voice while making choices that are absolutely deranged. but i do think people underestimate how much of her is survival. hannibal isnt some normal dangerous man she can just ghost and block. she knows what he is, she knows what he does to people who become inconvenient, and shes trying to stay alive around him with the tools she has - intelligence, distance, plausible deniability, and the ability to sound like she’s analysing the situation from above it while actively standing inside it. she’s not a pure victim, but she’s not exactly free either. she’s in this horrible middle space where she’s afraid, fascinated, morally compromised, and always calculating what version of the story will leave her with a way out." 2. "She is so good because she never gives you the satisfaction of being easy to read. Is she trapped? Kind of. Is she choosing it? Also kind of. Is she lying to the FBI, to Hannibal, to Will, to herself, or to all of them depending on the day? yes, probably."

vs. Tartuffe (Tartuffe)

Problematic because: "scams a guy by pretending to be super religious" Propaganda: "if some rich guy is willing to worship the very ground you walk on and give you all his money because you pretended to be super religious, then you kinda earned that money validly as far as Im concerned 🤷‍♀️. he was probably gonna donate it to some other fraudulent priest if Tartuffe hadn't come along. at least Tartuffe has style and pizzazz."