Much like we saw from one Clarice Starling on the many adaptations of Thomas Harris’s literature Over the years, almost every story about the hotshot, young FBI agent focused on her tireless hunt to find and put in jail serial killers. Alex Kurtzman and Jenny Lumet’s new Clarice series for CBS wants to change things up a bit.
When you meet Rebecca Breeds’ attack on Starling, she’s at a point in her career where she’s the serial killer of Silence of the lambs, Jame “Buffalo Bill” Gumb, and made a name for himself as someone within the agency with the actual chops to get the job done well. But while Clarice’s temperament and ability to spot others’ intentions really make her such a capable investigator, you see in Clarice‘s first complete preview is that her talents make her a target within the FBI – someone at least some of her colleagues see as to be outside her depth.
At the same time that there are people running around in the Washington DC area killing people, Clarice must overcome the obstacles and exceed the expectations of everyone who hopes she will fail. It’s a Starling challenge, but as you can see in the last moments of the trailer, it will not be long before her job finally puts her off. slap in the middle of the danger that no one really has to deal with.
Large ash Bryan Fuller se Hannibal wait in Clarice‘s shadow for obvious reasons, it looks like the performances will exist in very different spaces, in terms of tone and style, despite their shared topic. Or Clarice Eventually, it becomes a captivating story that will take you back to this blood-soaked world of unhealthy killers, and it depends on what gripping stories it begins to weave when the series airs on CBS on February 11th.
Clarice—What also stars Lucca De Oliveira, Devyn A. Tyler, Kal Penn, Nick Sandow, Michael Cudlitz and Marnee Carpenter–debut on CBS on February 11th.
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