Mindhunter Web Series Review: Incredible mindbender

MindhunterPsychological dramaCreated by Joe PenhallDirector David Fincher Asif Kapadia and othersCast Jonathan Groff Holt McCallany Anna TorvRatingTheres a copy of Jon Ronsons book The Psychopath Test resting on my bedside for months little later on why thats the case which essentially intends to argue through evidences and quirky journalism that people at the topmost echelons of power regardless of their profession are inherently psychopaths By this what the author meansclaims is that while the top leaders are able to mimic human emotions even better than others especially in public what they intrinsically lack is human empathy even deaths can be a matter of headcount for themA still from MindhunterYou only have to watch Netflixs devastatingly brilliant House Of Cards a series thats been sadly discontinued for reasons wholly external to the show itself to confirm how Johnsons theory could play out in realpolitik Its also an argument about sociopsychopaths that the expert criminal psychologist Anna Torv makes in Mindhunter although the 10part Netflix series chiefly deals with studying white male sexual deviantsThe project spearheaded by two agents Holden Ford Bill Tench Jonathan Groff Holt McCallany powerhouse performers both in the behavioral science unit of the FBI concentrates on getting into the minds of convicted ldquosequence killersrdquo motives of whose lunatic crimesactions cannot be obviously ascertainedMindhunter is based on a true story from a book of the same name It is primarily set in Quantico in the late 1970s although tone and mood wise it bears no relation to Priyanka Chopras thriller named after FBIs Viriginiabased training centre This is also at every level a buddycop series but that would be limiting the scope of its drama As would be to consider it an extreme truecrime type series along the lines of say Dexter True Detective and so many others that inevitably fire up the InternetHow can I put it better but to describe this as the goriest possible show wholly centred on ldquoserial killersrdquo the term was incidentally coined by the protagonists during the course of their research with hardly a drop of blood on screen It is at the same time possibly the politest crimebased talkie ever Mindhunters craftily flits between long interviews held with FordTenchs subjects behind bars and solving immediate cases like any other crimeprocedural that the two agents are able to get a better sense of through insights developed as a result of their journalisticpsychoanalytical study At the core of it is essentially Freud who many have considered a fraud for long only to prefer psychologists Jung Adler etc who are clubbed among NeoFreudians anywayI first heard about Mindhunter at a bar last week One of my friends had decided to stay off booze that night just so he could go home absolutely sober and catch remaining episodes of the show I watched it in almost 10 hours flat with a brief sleepinterval somewhere in betweenHonestly I wouldnt advise this method for the same reasons that I still havent finished Ronsons Psychopath Test Or didnt pursue Psychology despite it being my favourite subject in highschool It messes with the mind simultaneously the strongest and the most vulnerable organ You simply cant help applying theories of Psychology perennially to the world around You just start seeing people a certain way as you read about them although those theories aim to explain minds exhibiting characteristics prevalent only among about 5 per cent humans deviating on either extreme from the normTheres more abnormal general psychology stuffed into this show than all of high school text put together The stories that the FBI agents work on inevitably start working on them Ive been trying to avoid human company all evening Clearly it works the same way with the audienceWatch Mindhunter Trailer