This one needs a bit of context. The NBC show, Hannibal, includes a lot of homoerotic undertones to bring out the depth of their characters and the relationships they form. One of the directors of the show said the following about the use of cinema to portray that relationship: "We really want to explore the intimacy of these two men in an unexpected way without sexualizing them, but including a perception of sexuality that the cinema is actually portraying to the audience more than the characters are. There’s a scene at dinner where we were tackling in the edit bay because it was so transparently homoerotic. They were doing something that was not sex or anywhere near sex, but it was shot so suggestively that they may as well have been …"