I love crime thrillers and police procedurals and Netflix’s MINDHUNTER checks both of those boxes for me. The series premiered in 2017 and Season 2 was just released this August. According to Wikipedia the series is based on a true-crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit which was written by John E. Douglas, a real FBI profiler, and Mark Olshaker.
In Season 1 the stories revolve around three FBI agents who will come to develop the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit at the FBI Academy. The FBI Agents interview killers who have committed multiple crimes and try to analyze their motivations, psyches, etc. It’s fascinating to see just how matter-of-fact these men can be about what they did and some of it is pretty gruesome so this series is not for the faint of heart.
Season 2 varies from this setup as we instead get to see more about the lives of the FBI Agents (fictional by the way) and as the agents take what they’ve learned to apply it to various crimes, including the Atlanta Child Murders. There are also snippets involving the BTK killer and his crimes so I’m sure we’ll see more of that in the future, although that’s over two decades until he’s captured.
The series is fascinating as are the killers who we are introduced to and who we’re glad are behind bars and not still loose on the street. You can watch MINDHUNTER on Netflix at https://www.netflix.com/title/80114855.
Screen Capture courtesy of Netflix trailer Season 2. Used under Fair Use for review and commentary.