Mindhunter

chanandre

[Netflix] There is so much audiovisual juice to extract from this. The rise of "my only mistake (insert Joy Division song) was to ever have doubted myself" was scarier than all those serial killers he studied and talked to. His cowboy approach by the end is understandable. Future crime police indeed. Dead right about exposing the perverted principal and to manipulate criminals in order to get results IRL. Season2now

lbunuel

Fincher's "quality seal" guarantees that this will always have a level of directorial cleverness that sets it apart from your usual TV blandness. It works: most of the main plot's action has the same edge & strange quality of Zodiac, adapted skillfully to the episodic format. But the other plots, as it is usual in television, feel useless.

Slow Immersion

S2 - It took me a second viewing to fully appreciate S1 and I was super excited to watch S2 today, watched all 9 episodes in about 11 hours and it may well be my favourite show on TV right now. Quite filmic and feels like an extended film as opposed to some shows which feel segmented. Looking forward to future seasons.

Lights in the Dusk

It would've been nice had the series not clung so tightly to every cliché in the cop movie playbook, but nonetheless, this is exhilarating drama. I loved the way the conversations with the various murderers created parallels & insinuations in the lives of its protagonists, finding that Nietzschean concept of the abyss staring back. The slow burn aesthetic & emphasis on dialog over sensationalism was much appreciated.

ig_____or

"Mindhunter" subverts the expectations for this kind of show by not showing you the victims, the killings or the crime scenes. Pretty much everything is left for the viewer to imagine, which can prove disappointing to some. However, I think that the characters, dialogues and production values make it very entertaining. Dr. Carr and Ed Kemper were standouts but the leading duo is also quite charming. Season 2, please.

HKFanatic

You can imagine the dollar signs in the Netflix executive's eyes when somebody pitched this as "'Mad Men' meets 'Se7en'!" - but "Mindhunter" belies its elevator pitch with one of the most absorbing shows of the Peak TV era. It makes sense as this is very much David Fincher's territory: process, procedure, investigation. In Holden Ford, he finally has a protagonist as interesting as the killers who so fascinate him.

Annalee

Highly interesting yet mediocre. Cameron Britton was absolutely amazing in his portrayal of Edmund Kemper! Hands down the best actor in the series. Jonathan Groff fell short, per usual, in his role. Completely unbelievable in his role. I also felt that Anna Torv was miscast in this, as well.

Addy K.

With MINDHUNTER, Fincher flicks his "people are perverts" maxim to slow burn. Directing 4 of 10 episodes, his precise visual style and combative intellectualism emerge as distinct signifiers. A pastiche of SOCIAL NETWORK, GONE GIRL and ZODIAC, the ten hours fully allow Fincher to explore personal themes: a brilliant young man vs. monolithic hierarchy; his estrangement from the mainstream not dissimilar to 'deviants'.