This is a spoiler-free review for all 10 new episodes of Netflix's Mindhunter - which premiered Friday, October 13th.
The concept of the cop or investigator who gets too absorbed in his/her work, too close to the darkness, is a well-worn story device at this point. TV shows and movies have presented us with many a hero, or anti-hero, who've succumbed to the sheer weight and enormity of the atrocities they're forced to absorb for decades now. Likewise, the entertainment industry's fascination with serial killers, a genre of crime fiction that got an enormous boost from 1991's The Silence of the Lambs (which then spawned and influenced dozens more movies) can easily feel like a tired infatuation here in 2017.
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The concept of the cop or investigator who gets too absorbed in his/her work, too close to the darkness, is a well-worn story device at this point. TV shows and movies have presented us with many a hero, or anti-hero, who've succumbed to the sheer weight and enormity of the atrocities they're forced to absorb for decades now. Likewise, the entertainment industry's fascination with serial killers, a genre of crime fiction that got an enormous boost from 1991's The Silence of the Lambs (which then spawned and influenced dozens more movies) can easily feel like a tired infatuation here in 2017.
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