185
Television · 2017
Mindhunter
In the late 1970s, FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench team up with psychologist Wendy Carr to study the minds of imprisoned serial killers. By conducting in-depth interviews with incarcerated murderers, the team pioneers criminal profiling within the bureau while grappling with the disturbing psychological toll the work takes on their personal lives.
Your call
Already know it? Recommend it too.
Details
Around the Web
The long-awaited second season of David Fincher’s “Mindhunter” affirms the program as Netflix’s strongest drama. Even more ambitious and mesmerizing than the first season, this nine-episode installment concerns something that crime programs rarely ever attempt to capture: the fact that we can never know exactly every detail and motive.
Brian Tallerico on RogerEbert.com In other words, it’s another drama about a maverick cop with a complicated personal life solving excessively horrible crimes, but it has a thick veneer of factual and creative authenticity. Ford isn’t just using behavioural profiling techniques that are so familiar to crime drama fans – he’s pioneering them, and he is based on FBI profilers who revolutionised the study of psychopathic killers in the 1970s and 80s.
Jack Seale on The Guardian David Fincher and the depiction of the 'serial killer' is a fascinating romance. After the rain-soaked noir of Seven, the methodical autopsy of Zodiac, and his plunge into the mute, visceral Sweden of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, the filmmaker returns to grapple with the very essence of the serial killer. Yet as expected, Mindhunter aligns far more with Zodiac than Seven in how it comprehends evil.
Velvetman on SensCritique
1 / 3
Why people recommend it
No reasons shared yet. Tell others what makes this title worth their time.