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At the end of 1991’s
Silence of the Lambs, serial killer and cannibal Hannibal Lecter tells investigator Clarice Starling, “The world’s more interesting with you in it.” The new CBS series
Clarice, which brings the character back for a procedural drama, marks the first time his theory has been tested. Set one year after the events depicted in
Lambs,
Clarice is built around the young FBI agent, and the show features only the most oblique references to Lecter. Showrunners Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet didn’t have a choice; complicated rights issues prevented Lecter from being involved. But it leaves an enormous challenge for the series: to make Starling interesting enough to make viewers forget about Lecter altogether.
Clarice Review: CBS s Haunting Silence of the Lambs Spin-Off Does Clarice Starling Proud
The new series is interested in its hero as a person, not a pop culture legacy Kelly Connolly
Rebecca Breeds,
Clarice Brooke Palmer/CBS
Clarice Starling needs no introduction. She s the kind of groundbreaking character whose TV series can be sold with one name.
Clarice. Like Cher. The new CBS procedural, set a year after the events of
The Silence of the Lambs, presumes that Clarice Starling is now famous in her world, too: She s the woman who took down Buffalo Bill and tangoed with Hannibal Lecter, though you won t hear Hannibal mentioned by name in the series. There s a legal explanation for his absence from this story (the rights to author Thomas Harris characters are confusingly divided), but it s a gift for the show: It keeps the focus on Clarice. She s the only celebrity this show needs. Her FBI therapist refers to Hannibal obliquely as her last therapist ; he was fascina