I just finished the show. I'm a big fan of Silence and thought the other movies were fairly forgettable and as someone who's sick of police procedurals, I wasn't sure whether to give the show a chance but I'm hooked. There's not many psychological thrillers on television and this is done well. I thought maybe they were going to go the antihero route like Dexter but they made Hannibal a collosal douchebag, which is great.
Dr Bloom was really familiar to me and it took me a few episodes to click that she was in Wonderfalls, which is kind of fitting, considering her character was most likely insane.
I've been hoping the show reverses the norm, i.e. instead of a hero defeating a new villain every season, it's a villain destroying a new person's life per arc. As for the last episode...
That kind of implies that will happen. Hannibal will probably not be back at the FBI helping out anymore, so it'll be onto a new victim. While I thought season 2 raised the stakes (and fatalities), there were a couple of things I found irritating. Giving Hannibal a love interest felt forced. I saw him as fairly asexual in the first season, murder being his orgasm, if that analogy makes any kind of sense. But instead of eating Dr Bloom, he starts, well, pun's obvious so I'll move on. I get that it started as an alibi and to mess with Will, but after the first night, it just felt like an unnecessary way to make Hannibal look innocent. "I have a girlfriend, therefore I can't be serving you Beverly's innards."
I also had the Simpsonic moment of "Isn't anyboody in this dad-gummed cemetery dead?" particularly when they ressurected Abigail for forty seconds only to kill her again for the imagery. Having said that, Jesus Christ, that was an ending. Bodies dropping in every room of Hannibal's house. Pretty dark end of an arc.