Hannibal season 3 is coming back relatively soon, with a premiere date set for June 4, and we’ve gotten a whole slew of new trailers lately to promote the new season—which sounds like it’s easily going to be the show’s best. Early reviews corroborate that. The show has gotten better every season so far, but at the same time, it hasn’t really found a large audience. It has always been on the bubble. And we are thus left wondering—Is Hannibal season 3 the show’s last season?

Hannibal Season 3: The End?

Hannibal season 3 is extremely promising. With a release date on June 4 on NBC, the third season makes two big changes: The show is moving to Europe, and Gillian Anderson is now a regular, meaning she’ll be in every episode instead of just a sporadic treat. Since Mikkelsen and Anderson are the two best things about the show and most of the other characters are... not so much the best things, that’s news for great rejoicing. And the European setting brings Hannibal back to his natural home, which is much more exciting than freakin’ Baltimore, after all.

But the good times may not last: Hannibal season 3 faces some grave risks. The show has always done at best okay in the United States, hindered by a bad timeslot and indifferent, mostly invisible marketing, along with a general distrust of network television among the kind of people who actually like sophisticated dramas—the cable TV set. The show has been buoyed by production deals from European companies, which continue, but that’s really the only thing keeping the show alive.

There was a lot of speculation that Hannibal season 2 would be the end of the show. Thankfully, it wasn’t. But unless the show becomes a big hit, it will be tough for it to keep on scraping by. So, if you’re a fan of Hannibal, get your ten thousand or so closest friends on board now and save this thing, lest Hannibal end in Europe, where Hannibal Lecter’s story began.