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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
Thirty years almost to the day since the release of The Silence of the Lambs, CBS is taking us back into Harrisâs dimly lit universe yet this time, focus is on the sharp-witted FBI agent over her flesh-eating frenemy in the surprisingly efficient new drama series Clarice. Itâs strange that itâs taken this long, the character both more obviously suited to a long-running story and arguably more interesting when examined in detail (Lifetime tried back in 2012 but, thankfully, the show stalled in development). Perhaps weâre all still so much in awe of Jodie Fosterâs jolting original performance, something so astonishingly well-calibrated, so genuinely perfect, that even an actor as fine as Julianne Moore couldnât come close (like others who have a soft spot for Ridley Scottâs perversely pleasing Hannibal, Iâve found it easier to imagine the film taking place in an entirely separate universe).