Mindhunter: Season 1

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Netflix | Season Premiere 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 Mark Olshaker and John E. Douglas book Mind Hunter: Inside FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit.

Genre(s): Drama

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S1:E10. Episode 10
Air Date: October 13, 2017
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S1:E9. Episode 9
Air Date: October 13, 2017
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S1:E8. Episode 8
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Allison Keene

Oct 17, 2017

Mindhunter is telling a long story, one that is engaging on multiple levels, understanding that you need strong characters and a compelling episodic structure to make a show great. It covers a lot of ground in 10 episodes. Read full review

Keith Uhlich

Oct 12, 2017

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

Uncle Barky Ed Bark

Oct 12, 2017

Patience is recommended, because it takes a while for Mindhunter to embed its hooks and acclimate Groff, who at times seems to be almost painfully “finding” his character. ... Based on what we have, Mindhunter is plodding at times but promising in the main. Read full review

Matt Roush

Oct 12, 2017

An unusually cerebral and chillingly absorbing drama. [16-29 Oct 2017, p.15]

UPROXX Alan Sepinwall

Oct 17, 2017

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

Rob Owen

Oct 13, 2017

What Mindhunter lacks in energy it makes up for in better attention to character details. Mindhunter grows significantly more interesting in its second hour once Holden gets paired with veteran FBI agent Bill Tench (Holt McCallany, “Lights Out”) and starts interviewing co-ed killer Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton, who nails a so-serene-it’s-creepy vibe). Read full review

Sonia Saraiya

Oct 12, 2017

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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TheTalentBank

Nov 29, 2017

This was one of the best new series I have seen in ages. The main characters are incredibly well drawn and the relationship between them really well thought out.

Mindhunter is a brutal and grisly look into the mind of serial killers and is very dark but what strikes you the most is theThis was one of the best new series I have seen in ages. The main characters are incredibly well drawn and the relationship between them really well thought out.

Mindhunter is a brutal and grisly look into the mind of serial killers and is very dark but what strikes you the most is the level of detail and the meticulous research that must have gone into making it.

It is gripping and exciting with good dialogue and plotting. Can't wait for season 2.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

geistreiches

Oct 14, 2017

I just started yesterday and this show is good, the interaction between the characters as well as the interviews with the prisoner.. especially the interviews with the prisoner is amazing.. its one of those shows where you just want to go on to see what will happen.. it's an interestingI just started yesterday and this show is good, the interaction between the characters as well as the interviews with the prisoner.. especially the interviews with the prisoner is amazing.. its one of those shows where you just want to go on to see what will happen.. it's an interesting topic to find out what goes on in a mind of a serial killer and how he became what he is… Expand

16 of 21 users found this helpful165

AWESOM-0

Jan 1, 2020

Very, very cool show. This view of the FBI was always interesting to me and I’m looking forward to the next season!

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TVBug

Oct 15, 2017

I'm on episode three and find myself unable to stop watching. By coincidence, I just finished reading "Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI" by
Robert K. Ressler. True Crime has never really been my thing but Ressler's book, which covers much of theI'm on episode three and find myself unable to stop watching. By coincidence, I just finished reading "Whoever Fights Monsters: My Twenty Years Tracking Serial Killers for the FBI" by
Robert K. Ressler. True Crime has never really been my thing but Ressler's book, which covers much of the same ground as the series (based on "Mindhunter" by John E. Douglas), was interesting, if dark and disturbing.

Surprisingly, Mindhunter the TV series is often funny, while still remaining fascinating and staying mostly true to the actual events. The well drawn characters make this show a must watch.… Expand

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JJJ

Oct 26, 2017

Overall an interesting, intelligent series with a disappointing 'ending.' This show struggles with its identity. Is it a cop show? Is it a thriller? Is it a drama? Is it an intellectual procedural? Is it 'based on a true story?'
It covers a wide range of storylines:
'Cop Buddy' tension,Overall an interesting, intelligent series with a disappointing 'ending.' This show struggles with its identity. Is it a cop show? Is it a thriller? Is it a drama? Is it an intellectual procedural? Is it 'based on a true story?'
It covers a wide range of storylines:
'Cop Buddy' tension,
Innovation vs tried & true tactics,
The minds of serial killers,
Local murder mysteries,
Foreshadow of a new serial killer,
Side story about an elementary school principal,
A love story/sexual awakening,
A sad adopted kid with possible autism & a mysterious past,
Marital tension,
Relationship troubles,
Office politics/government bureaucracy
The evolution of an earnest FBI agent becoming too full of himself to follow the rules ...
Gosh, did I miss anything?

Does this show know what it wants to be?
The second season should answer this question more definitively. Otherwise, it will meander into obscurity.
With all that, I did enjoy the series. The substance was certainly weighty enough, and smart enough, to keep me fully engaged through the whole series. It's not an 'edge of your seat' experience. It is nuanced, very smart, somewhat original & doesn't rely on standard tropes to tell its story.
I appreciate not having to watch re-enactments of horrible murders with young women screaming. Thank you, thank you, thank you. I think we are past that now as watchers of crime shows. We've seen enough. (At least I have) As a student of psychology, I really enjoy the analyses & intellectual/academic context.
Very interested to see where this goes. The second season must be more definitive, then we can accept this first season as being the set up, background, lead up to something really strong.
Acting is very good, music is great, women are actual human beings, not just sex toys & victims - again, thank you for that.
Looking forward to the second season.… Expand

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Pugnacious

Oct 29, 2017

It will grow on you. After first, terrible and awkward episode it was easy to dismissed this show as a completely pointless. However, I strongly recommend to give it a shot and watch also the second episode with Ed Kemper. If you are interested in the subject, this is a must watch, and ifIt will grow on you. After first, terrible and awkward episode it was easy to dismissed this show as a completely pointless. However, I strongly recommend to give it a shot and watch also the second episode with Ed Kemper. If you are interested in the subject, this is a must watch, and if you aren't, you could still invest your time worse than by watching it.… Expand

1 of 1 users found this helpful10

CaMcG

Nov 5, 2017

I just don't get the praise for this show. To me the acting comes off stiff, stilted, forced and very amateurish--think high school play. The delivery and timing is just off and the "witty banter" isn't. I found the characters unconvincing--I felt like I was watching practice takes, withI just don't get the praise for this show. To me the acting comes off stiff, stilted, forced and very amateurish--think high school play. The delivery and timing is just off and the "witty banter" isn't. I found the characters unconvincing--I felt like I was watching practice takes, with the actors still learning their lines and pacing. Maybe it's not completely their fault, maybe the writing and directing share some of the responsibility. I couldn't finish the first episode--and not because it was slow, I just couldn't keep subjecting myself to the acting.… Expand

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Series Overview
Season 2

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

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- Season 1 Overview
  Air Date: October 13, 2017
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