Mindhunter

A slow burning and intelligent exercise in restraint. This reeks so much of peak David Fincher, that your screen feels like it will taste of cigarette, were you to lick it. If this isn't the best series of 2017, it'll do till the other show gets here.

By now Fincher must have covered all bases when it comes to serial killers, but that doesn't take away from this extremely well executed period piece. And nice to see Holt McCallany put in the front for once.

The first season was classy, but a bit dry. As with the superior 'True Detective', the best thing about it was the dynamic between the two male leads. In the second season, in which things gets less clinical (the main focus shifts from the procedural panorama of bureaucracy to actual crime-solving) and more engaging (string of child murders, the strained relationships), Holt McCallany gets the brunt of the screen-time. I hope that this show makes him an A-lister. He's cool.

Fincher has a special knack for creating claustrophobia; maybe in 50 years' time they will refer to it as "Fincherian environment". Groff's depiction of the "benign psychopath who tries to understand psychopaths" is excellent too. But the crown jewel is the Kemper character; the pioneering, philosopher serial killer. He had a very weird effect on me; he is really a completely different kind of monster; watch some of his real footage, he is something else. As far as you can go with real material

Cameron Britton captures Ed Kemper so fucking well, I'm a bit shaken just thinking about him. This show will play games with your sanity and leave you ultimately frustrated. Not just because the way season 2 developed, but also the way season 3 never did. And if I hear Holt McCallany is starring in something, you best be damned sure I'm watching it. Guy deserves to helm something new (Iron Claw looks like it will be some serious shit).

Gave up after 7 episodes. So, so, so boring and unnecessary. Abysmal acting by Jonathan Groff, who's the dullest, most unengaging character in a cast of very dull characters. The problem is we are decades ahead of this show's era: everything they discover in the field of criminal psychology is now so well known it's a Hollywood cliche. There are no lively or intelligent characters to make up for it. They are simply really dumb and uninteresting and.. completely dead. i.e: Netlix.

Season 1: 6/10 :: Season 2: 8/10 :: Holt McCallany: 10/10

I liked S1 well enough but after watching S2 my whole opinion on the show changed.S2 is vastly better because I thought the main problem of S1 was that it was to slow to start and that the characters weren't strong enough. But by now you have gotten to know these people and in this season they are developed even more.That in addition to the masterful directing and incredibly compelling writing make for a riveting show that demands your attention for every second that it's on.

The premise was great but the execution is horrible. You get very little feel for the characters be it the profilers or the serial killers. The most interesting relationship between Debbie and Holden derails at episode 8 and then magically just carries on in episode 9 just by seeing her. The explanation of profiling is very basic very basic at best. Visually it's pretty but there has to be more to a series than that.

It turns language, pathology, and institutional coldness into a slow-blooming form of dread, where the real violence lives less in action than in the way people listen, classify, and start to absorb what they study. The series moves with an almost clinical restraint, but that control is exactly what makes it so unnerving. It never needs to scream. 8.5/10 — Precise, eerie, and quietly poisonous.