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Mindhunter

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Generally favorable reviews based on 37 Critic Reviews

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Mindhunter

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Netflix | Release Date: October 13, 2017

Summary: The David Fincher series set in the 1979 where two FBI special agents (Holt McCallany and Jonathan Groff) in the Elite Serial Crime Unit create profiling techniques to solve cases was based on the Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit.

Genre(s): Drama

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The Telegraph Ed Power

Jan 3, 2020

Season 2 Review: The series fascinates rather than unsettles. Yet the picture it paints of Manson, Rader and the rest is never glib. It’s a remarkable achievement and one of those rare “binge-watch” shows that lives up to the billing. You really will want to snaffle it down in one sitting. Read full review

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IndieWire Ben Travers

Aug 19, 2019

Season 2 Review: “Mindhunter” is deeper, richer, and more affecting this go round, even as it steers away from studying proven killers. Read full review

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The Hollywood Reporter

Keith Uhlich

Oct 12, 2017

Season 1 Review: Groff is immediately persuasive as a person whose raw talent is as much a hindrance as an advantage, and Fincher's surgically precise touch is evident in even tiny details like the police bullhorn that distorts a cop's voice to just the right unnerving degree. ... It's never less than engrossing. Fincher's proven time and again that he can make even the most mundane activities and actions riveting. Read full review

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UPROXX Alan Sepinwall

Oct 17, 2017

Season 1 Review: Penhall, Fincher, and the rest of the creative team take a dry, no-frills approach to most of the narrative. The overall aesthetic isn’t flashy, but that’s the point--this is exhausting, sad work involving both victims and perpetrators who led small lives that have become shockingly big--and the drama is more potent because of how plain-spoken so much of this is. Read full review

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The New Yorker

Troy Patterson

Dec 15, 2017

Season 1 Review: “All the world is not, of course, a stage, but the crucial ways in which it isn’t are not easy to specify.” The writers (led by Penhall) and the directors (who include David Fincher) of “Mindhunter” play with this and related ideas about masks, frames, screens, and true selves in a distinct tone. As the show flows from mode to mode--slow-burn horror, arch workplace comedy, buddy-cop road movie--it returns its attention to performers, and to the daily problem of giving an audience what it wants. Read full review

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New York Post

Robert Rorke

Aug 16, 2019

Season 2 Review: When it finally gets going — and that would be Episode 3 — Season 2 of the Netflix series “Mindhunter” finds some resonance by delving into one of the most notorious 20th-century serial killer cases — the Atlanta child murders of 1979-81. At least 28 children, adolescents, and adults were killed. Read full review

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Variety

Sonia Saraiya

Oct 12, 2017

Season 1 Review: The show struggles to make Holden make sense--which makes for a slow, rocky start through his career woes and love life. Though the pilot’s tone is an intriguing combination of wry humor and ‘70s noir, it’s otherwise a slog of exposition and painfully on-the-nose scene-setting. Things pick up considerably as soon as McCallany’s Bill appears in Holden’s life. Read full review

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kobaltronics

Jun 9, 2020

The first season is a masterpiece. Realistic, hard and with a constant tension. Obscure but more close to a drama than a horror flick. It is like more like Zodiac story, but with the main characters from Se7en. One important thing: Season 2 is a piece of garbage. I don’t know what happenedThe first season is a masterpiece. Realistic, hard and with a constant tension. Obscure but more close to a drama than a horror flick. It is like more like Zodiac story, but with the main characters from Se7en. One important thing: Season 2 is a piece of garbage. I don’t know what happened but they ruined it. If you still don’t watch, season 1 worth it.… Expand

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LuciferMorning

Dec 26, 2019

Great show. Journey into the minds of crazy. Love it. Love it. Love it. Love it.

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Aldemir_L

Oct 4, 2019

An excellent thriller with profound character development and interesting insights into the psychology of serial killers.

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MeritCoba

Dec 13, 2019

I enjoyed this show very much due to the performances, overall camera work, script and especially by leaving out drama and intrigue. Here the various agencies are actually working together instead of having turf fights. I know there are always rivalries and tensions, but we are a socialI enjoyed this show very much due to the performances, overall camera work, script and especially by leaving out drama and intrigue. Here the various agencies are actually working together instead of having turf fights. I know there are always rivalries and tensions, but we are a social species that achieve success through cooperation, not because one brilliant man succeeds against all odds. This series seems to go down that route. Seems.

I think the best performance is by Cameron Britton who plays Ed Kemper and gives him this amiable veneer but you feel like something is off, something is lurking underneath to come out. Both Groff McCallany are excellent, although the character Groff plays(Holden) feels often bland outside of the interrogation rooms. He does have an character arc in that he gets more cocky and self-assured towards the end which sets him up for a fall. In any event it is Holden who is the driving force and who sets the pace in this series. Tench is more the older wiser guy. A more conservative person.

I especially want to praise the use of music. It is used not only to set the 70's mood, but at key moments it is used to underscore the significance of that moment, for instance when a suspect breaks and confesses.

I also want give a thumbs up for the story. The series try to address and show all kinds of issues that the team have to face. Notably that their methods result in convictions which might cause convicts not to talk to them when it goes public. Their success becomes their undoing if not handled well. And at some moment this does go wrong through an act of indiscretion.

Unfortunately there are also less part. Notable the character of Dr. Carr is just not handled well. She is the academic mind of the team, but you hardly see her do anything academic or contribute to the team. Instead her single role seems to be to look sourly and moan that Holden is unscientific and a threat to the mission. To slow him down.

The worst part is the relation between Holden and his girlfriend Debbie. I cringed when they were together. From the start it is clear that their personalities do not match. They seem never to have any fun when together, even when having sex. It is like the way my daughters are sometimes: they are fed up with each other but know they have to live in the same house at least until they are grown up. And Holden and Debby they are like all the time. I ended up skipping their scenes together, alas they get to be more frequent and longer towards the end. Break up already. I think they do.

The problem with Debby is that her role is probably meant as a kind of mirror for Holden, but they also wanted to make her become the romantic interest at the same time. Thus have two for the price of one. So she is there confront him with and ground him in the normal world on the one hand and be his love interest on the other hand. And it doesn't work. She is a book wurm who roams University hallways and frequents student parties. She has as little experience as him and lives in a total make-believe world of her own. And as said: they do not have any chemistry. What is needed is someone who can tell him what normal people think and give him insights that he might not have otherwise. But you could also totally invert expectations and give him an escort as girlfriend. Which would probably be the best character story wise. Maybe someone who flunked art school or drama. Or maybe actually did well but went for the easy money instead of her passion(see the contradiction with Holden). There is also the continued danger that the story is going down the well trodden road of that one guy who does it all while the rest just slow him down or hinder him. Overall I enjoyed this show, unfortunately, I just saw the first episode of season two. I am afraid it will descent into drama and intrigue.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

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robustnc

Jun 27, 2019

This is a great series and different than most TV. There are some gruesome plots but none of the violence described is displayed...rather we are left with the psychological questions of why these deeds happened. The characters seem genuine and the time frame well depicted. VeryThis is a great series and different than most TV. There are some gruesome plots but none of the violence described is displayed...rather we are left with the psychological questions of why these deeds happened. The characters seem genuine and the time frame well depicted. Very engrossing...bring on season 2.… Expand

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cumaligurses

Aug 18, 2019

Casting is great, Fincher as usual. Long conversation sometimes bored me to death but sometimes i felt quite opposite. Seeing famous psychopaths as such Charlie Manson was great. Bottomline can’t wait to see more episodes

2 of 2 users found this helpful20

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Securion

Apr 23, 2021

Really liked the premise of this show, but sadly, and as usual these times, they destroy it with woke politics that really takes you out of the suspension and story.

If you can stand moments of woke propaganda in between some seriously interesting and captivating moments of TV show thenReally liked the premise of this show, but sadly, and as usual these times, they destroy it with woke politics that really takes you out of the suspension and story.

If you can stand moments of woke propaganda in between some seriously interesting and captivating moments of TV show then this is for you.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 2

85
- Season 2 Overview
  Air Date: August 16, 2019
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Season 1

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 13, 2017