I'm not sure any film or television franchise has generated a more wildly varied set of expectations than Thomas Harris' psychological horror output.
When considering CBS' new drama Clarice, is it fairer to compare it to Jonathan Demme's Oscar-winning TheSilence of the Lambs or to Ridley Scott's infuriating big-screen sequel Hannibal?
To Bryan Fuller's operatic NBC drama Hannibal or to middling cinematic efforts like Brett Ratner's Red Dragon? Bits and pieces of this brand have been pulled apart and stitched back together over the years with a persistence that serial killer Buffalo Bill might appreciate.
The bar for success is either extremely high or reassuringly low, so naturally Clarice ends up somewhere right in the middle.
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