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- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
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.
Created By: Joe Penhall
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
- 2017
- TV-MA
- Netflix
Mindhunter
Season 1 Premiere: Oct 13, 2017
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8.5
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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.
Created By: Joe Penhall
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
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97% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
3% Mixed
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0% Negative
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Metascore
Generally Favorable
Based on 37 Critic Reviews
80
97% Positive
36 Reviews
36 Reviews
3% Mixed
1 Review
1 Review
0% Negative
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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.
Atmospheric and chilling as ever – generally without being gory beyond clinical crime scene still photos – “Mindhunter” remains one of the current era’s best series. ... Season two widens its lens to give each of the three lead characters more equal footing.
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 806 User Ratings
8.5
91% Positive
731 Ratings
731 Ratings
4% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
5% Negative
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
User Score
Universal Acclaim
Based on 806 User Ratings
8.5
91% Positive
731 Ratings
731 Ratings
4% Mixed
34 Ratings
34 Ratings
5% Negative
41 Ratings
41 Ratings
Unbelievable, must must watch, everyone is great, no weak link....great writing and acting, **** one over acts, it seems so natural you forget you are watching a movie. Genuine acting and cast. I do think Netflix does a badge job promoting these series. I never knew about this series till now 2020. And I heard they had to stop the series due to budgeting!! It still had so much story telling, we never get to see BTK and how they catch him. Netflix needs to bring this back, bring back the actors and finish ****’s too good
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This isn’t your typical good vs. evil, cops vs. robbers procedural. If anything, it’s trying to eliminate those conceptions. Sometimes it’s funny. Often it’s chilling. But however you take it, at least Mindhunter is working a fresh angle.
“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.
The two Mindhunter episodes provided to critics have more going for them than mere atmosphere, largely thanks to robust performances by Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany, who embody the familiar rookie and veteran cop partnership with a taut crackle. Together and individually these actors elevate dialogue that comes across as contrived and stilted, particularly in the first episode.
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).
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.
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 happened but they ruined it. If you still don’t watch, season 1 worth it.
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Mindhunter has that Fincher feeling, that makes him one of my favorite directors. Mindhunters has the same as Seven. Also a big shout out to Tobias Lindhom (a fellow dane) who directed two episodes.
Actors does a brilliant job and the supporting cast are awesome. The serial killers are protrayed in a very believeable way, and both Kemter and Brudos are truly frightening.
There is not much actions, and most episodes is just people talking, but its so good.
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Individually S1 would have an 8 S2 would get a 3, dramatic reduction in quality, fingers crossed for S3 - Great show for it's first season but 1 point removed for deviating from the real life counter part of one of the characters for the purpose of diversity tokenism and 2 points because the second season had me nodding off in my chair to get through a good portion.
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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 then this is for you.
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Deux agents du FBI enseignent la psychologie criminelle ou ce qui s’apparente à de la psychologie criminelle tout en cherchant de nouvelles méthodes d’interrogatoire et d’investigation et… de profilage, en compagnie d’une experte universitaire en la matière, une matière encore balbutiante dans ces années 70…
Des années 70 qui ont vu (déjà) moult criminels commettre des crimes abjects et parmi eux bien évidemment, des psychopathes ! comprendre ces dégénérés peut bien sûr aider dans les enquêtes et partant, en arrêter d’autres… du moins, en théorie.
Nos deux agents vont donc interroger des tarés ici et là, dans toutes les taules du pays mais en profitent aussi de temps en temps pour aider la police locale dans des affaires non résolues bien dégueulasses et sordides. L’ambiance est bien restituée et pour cause puisque la série est chapeautée par David Fincher qui a rassemblé ici des éléments (et des façons de faire) de ses deux précédents films dans le genre scabreux, à savoir Seven et Zodiac.
Hélas, au bout de quelques épisodes, la routine s’installe et le fil conducteur s’avère trop ténu pour maintenir l’attention (et la tension) d’une part des tarés en zonzon, d’autre part des tarés suspectés d’avoir découpé, noyé, tabassé, mutilé, découpé etc telle ou telle victime… ou bien en passe de commettre telle ou telle atrocité.
En effet, la répétition s’installe et on a surtout l’impression d’assister à un duo des inspecteurs Derrick et Columbo… (fussent-ils du FBI ou non, ça ne change rien à l’affaire). Par ailleurs, la série s’étale trop sur la vie privée de nos flics (et de la femme universitaire) avec par dessus le marché un agenda sous-jacent SJW et woke trop appuyé (et trop évident).
De fait, on baille trop souvent aux corneilles malgré un nombre limité d’épisodes (19 sur deux saisons pour l’instant) ; la série loupe le coche et s’étire en longueurs inutiles malgré le soin de sa mise en scène et les comédiens qui font de leur mieux. Il faut dire aussi que sa lenteur générale n’aide pas non plus ! mon esprit s’est barré ailleurs…
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Production Company:
- Denver and Delilah Productions
- Netflix
- Panic Pictures (II)
Initial Release Date: Oct 13, 2017
Number of seasons: 2 Seasons
Rating: TV-MA
Awards
Online Film & Television Association
• 2 Wins & 11 Nominations
International Online Cinema Awards (INOCA)
• 1 Win & 6 Nominations
Satellite Awards
• 1 Win & 4 Nominations
