Mindhunter

The second season of Netflix's Mindhunter is now out. If you haven't watched this already, it's truly binge worthy; but this not for the faint of heart. This is Silence of the Lambs stuff. If serial killers and the FBI profilers who track them sound like your bag, then you have found your next series. What's it all about it? This a fictional account of the birth of the Behavioral Science Unit of the FBI - fictional but it's all based on true events and real serial killers. It's fascinating stuff. The two main agents are Holden (played by Jonathan Groff) and Bill (Holt McCallany). Holden is young and naive but brilliant, whereas Bill is older, gruff, and smokes like a chimney. They have a kind of Laurel and Hardy chemistry. To understand serial killers, they interview serial killers. The first season Holden and Bill spend much with serial killer Edmund Kemper. The man who plays Kemper, I've heard, is spot on to the real thing; which makes watching this series both super fascinating and rather creepy. I binged the second season and its focus is on The Atlanta Child Murders. David Fincher is one of the driving forces behind this and David seems to have a thing for serial killers (Se7en, Zodiac). If you're a Fincher fan, this is must viewing. It's pretty dark stuff and if you have the stomach for it, catch it on Netflix.