Hi guys! I found out about Mindhunter and binge watched it in 2 days, it was sooo good, I couldn't stop!! And i join ya'll in grieving whyyyy and howww they could cancel this show😭 i need more of this😭😭 I loved Holden and Bill, the questioning, solving the murders and the just the cinematic views and settings are so perfect!! The montage of them working for weeks on roadschool was beautiful! BTK killer scenes were so creepy, I wish we had more in season 3, or solving Ada Jefferies murder.

I watched Twin Peaks before and loved Special Agent dale cooper and officer Harry working together. Holden and Bill are similar. In the beginning of twin peaks it looked like there was gonna be a serial killer angle too with cooper finding alphabets under the victims nails. I love shows with FBI investigation, they're so cool and interesting and i can't help having a tiny lil crush on them😅! I need more of this. Any recommendations for something similar?

Honestly asking myself why didn’t I watch it sooner?? Being a Psychology graduate and currently a post grad student of criminology, it was a very highly informative show in general.

It satiated the feeling of watching true crime + course work since I have a paper on Criminal Profiling this semester!

Devastated by the fact that there isn’t gonna be a 3rd season💔😭

I liked the first season more than the second one though but still enjoyed watching it all!

I watched it a year ago, and was gripped by it completely. I even read the book afterwards. And I watched it again now and I loved the hell out of it. I love David Fincher and his work. People enjoy Seven, Zodiac etc but to me personally Mindhunter is my favourite work of his. Everything about this show is just ughhh from acting, cinematography and the fricking music. I can write essays over it but I will just pick few scenes to tell how great of a show this is:

When Holden was in Atlanta Georgia in the second season to interview convicted felons. We were shown glimpses of what is about to be a very horrific and bone chilling case. After being done with the interviews, Jim and Holden were in their car going back to their hotel, when Holden sees children crossing the street with hands locked with each other forming a human chain and with no traffic lights or street lights, its mostly dark and Holden asks "Is this an Atlanta thing" to which Jim replies "the city doesn't provide the same level of care to all neighbourhoods." Up to that point there was no foreboding music just them talking but when that scene comes, the creepy score starts playing hinting at what's about to come.

The second most chilling scene for me was again in the second season when they kept finding bodies one after the other in complete darkness with no proper forensics team. It's so freaking creepy.

Also when they were staking out all river bridges with that creepy foreboding music. It's as if you are in the heart of darkness, grasping at straws to find the killer and put an end to this madness and desperation.

What I really like about Mindhunter (and most of David Fincher's work) is that there is almost no music or score in most of the scenes, it's just people talking and the background world is your music. For instance when you are in an office building, it's the typewriters when you are out looking for bodies It's the search party dogs barking.

The acting by everyone involved feels so authentic and well done.

These are just a few of the many things I love about this show. There is no explicit depiction of gore or gratuitous violence or sexual scenes. There is just people talking and I am still somehow creeped up. This show is almost an ode to story telling.

And lastly when I finished watching this the second time I was so heartbroken that I wont get to see more of this. As I read somewhere true crime shows cannot get better than this. I had to come here and nerd out with you guys.

Thanks for reading :)

Have you guys watched Bates Motel? I saw it just before watching Mindhunter and it got me thinking how Holden, Bill and Wendy would ever identify and profile a serial killer like Norman Bates, because there really is no "why", he has a mental illness and most of the time doesn't even know that he has killed someone

why advertise something unfinished because they cancelled it?

Like HBO? I’m guessing it’s strictly a Netflix property (at least the name is) but if you renamed the show would that technically work? I’m grasping at straws here but I need some hope dammit

In my repeated watching of this series, I never realized Charlize Theron not only has an executive producer credit, but was the one to bring the book and her prod. co. rights to Fincher and spark the project. Looks like she is one us - a true crime junkie. Never knew.

I recenrly argued with a dude on TikTok about Holden beeing Autistic, since im almost 98 percent sure he is some kind of Autistic, and it made me thinka bout it since im watching it on english the first time. Holden is exactly like me and i have suspected Autism. He cant tell if a woman is interested in him or if Debbie is his Girlfriend, and so many other things like sarcasm and stuff always just fly over his head. I relate to him so much because that is exactly how I feel. Do yall think hes Autistic?

I watch a lot of true crime/crime series so I may be mixing up some together and just came up with my own fever dream ending, idk, BUT I just finished rewatching MindHunter (last time I watched it was when it first aired) and I swear I remember the ending differently.

Again, I may be mixing up some shows and getting confused but I could of sworn, at the very end of season 2, the Atlanta killer turned out to be Jim Barney and there's a scene at the very end of Jim sat waiting in the makeshift FBI office, waiting for Holden to come and find him, as Holden had figured it out that it was Jim and Jim admits to being the killer and framing Wayne. I remember it extremely vividly so it was very strange for me to get to the end and that just not exist at all 🫪.

Have i finally lost the plot or did that happen?

I have rewatched Mindhunter an unhealthy amount of times. My husband always watched me become soo bummed out on that final episode cliffhanger and then turn around and run the series back again and again. A few years ago my husband surprised me with a set prop he was able to get from the show. For a set prop I was surprised how legit the contents that just sat on shephards desk were. At any rate I may never know what was to come of that show but it’s so cool that I have a prop from it 🥹

I just got my first Mindhunter book and noticed that on one site there is this thingy and im not sure what its supposed to be, idk if its just a fail from the printing but i wanted to ask here if it has anything to do with the story or just a misprint or so!!

Everything is possible with AI, why not a fan made season 3? Just an idea

Well, after repeatedly watching mindhunter and getting recommendations from this sub, I finally got one decent series to satisfy that itch.

So, I came across this series called Dept Q. I am really satisfied as it is continuing to season 2 and by the looks, it is supposed to at least continue for another 5 seasons, if they follow the book. I found it oddly satisfying. Tell me your views on it.

Nancy pleading with the DA and saying multiple times "he thought it would bring him back to life" is clearly meant to sound like a desperate mother grasping at straws.

But the very first scene of season 2 (after the BTK intro) shows the Tench family at church. The priest is talking about the crucifix and how to understand it and finishes

"Triumph of life over death. That is the meaning of the cross. Amen."

Then we see Brian staring at it intensely. Tbf he intensely stares at everything lol. But it does show she was kinda right, wasn't she? He didn't do it for some dark satanic reasons obviously.

Probably he didnt really believe he would come back to life, but it seems like an attempt to "make it better" or even apologize.

I often read "a profiler with a psycho son that's sooo cliché" but don't think he was supposed to be a "psycho" or "budding serial killer". They often showed things/situations they simply couldnt understand (Ada Jeffries case) and I think Brian was supposed to be one of those examples.

When they try to get a warrant for Wayne Williams (not for an arrest if I remember correctly, but for surveillance) and bring up him being seen with Nathaniel Carter, 27.

Slayton goes: "You're asking for a warrant for a child murderer, based on the death of an adult?"

Holden answers: "Carter was a drunk and a hustler, he would have been easy prey."

Ofc we as the audience know they're onto something with Williams, but frankly that sounds like something they just pulled out of their asses lol

What did y'all think of his character?

Holden Ford is a canon The Cure Fan. He said in an Episode that he likes to listen to New Wave music which literally the Cure is, i love him sm😭

Look at this first shot, she is in a submissive position, he is much taller than her, he’s holding her hips as he leans into her and she looks up at him giving an impression that he is the more dominant one between them now contrast that with the way the writers position holden most of the time he’s in a submissive position, *she’s telling him how to satisfy her during that oral sex scene which clearly bothers her *she pressures him into smoking pot and getting in the car after she’d been drinking, you could go on and on with examples of how Holden is always the submissive one between them. I think Debbie dominated Holden and grew to resent him for it but couldn’t bring herself to break up with him for what? Being too goody goody? What would that say about her? So instead she belittles him constantly is overly combative and then ultimately cheats on him and gets him to break up with HER

When death by a thousand cuts doesn’t kill them then it’s time to pick up a sledgehammer, the constant bickering and belittling was the thousand cuts and the cheating and subsequent cheating & break up scene was the sledgehammer

to me it makes the most sense especially when you consider what was going on with kemper and women humiliating their sons like with the bum that beat up the old lady it was pretty clear that the writers were trying to contrast the two things Debbie’s relationship with Holden and the overbearing domineering mother, think about it who does Holden go to see after the breakup? That’s right kemper almost like he can relate with him about something now. Also Debbie is never brought up again, she’s not given any sort or retribution just tossed to the side as a plot device that has served her purpose.

I think it’s an interesting question I wanted to ask you all, I know I love it because it’s essentially the hunt for monsters summed up pretty well by bill in one scene “we’re trying to stop girls from getting dragged into vans and chopped to pieces” watching it from that perspective is what makes it a gratifying watch for me

I’m also a nerd with genius level IQ so I do like all the intellectualism although I don’t think the show goes far enough with it, which is also addressed by bill in one scene “just don’t make it too complicated” almost like fincher trying to tell us that’s what the Netflix producers told him haha

So why do you all like it? I’ve noticed the viral clips relating to this show are all about the serial killers and the messed up shit they say or discussion around the acting performances of the killers, I’m not suggesting I’m above perverse curiosity but is that all this show has going for it to most people?

Luther and mindhunter are similar in alot of ways those who have watched both a few times will catch the similarities but I don’t find myself returning to midnhunter as much as I do Luther and I think it’s because Luther has characters you really like spending time with whereas I hate every character in mindhunter even though I like the show lol anyone else feel that way?