If you love police dramas, then you’ll want to catch up on Mindhunter on Netflix (season one) before the new season drops on August 16th with all new episodes taking audiences into the past with investigations into Charles Manson, the Atlanta child murders, and Son of Sam.
Director David Fincher shared some details on Mindhunter season 2, “in the ’70s, post-Manson, post-Son of Sam, post-Zodiac, there really was … I don’t think you can say it was an epidemic, but there was definitely the feeling that the notion of this has gotten away from us,” he said. “When I left the Bay Area in the mid 1970s and our parents moved to Oregon, you go 300 miles north and nobody talked about [the Zodiac Killer]. It had been this festering thing that had never been brought to any kind of closure but no one cared about it [outside of the Bay Area]. Then Son of Sam came, and it was Newsweek and Time — the cover.”
The timeline of the show’s first season was set in 1977, when criminal profiling and serial killer psychology were still new and misunderstood fields. The second season takes place a couple of years later, when public interest in serial killers dramatically increased and the FBI expands its Behavioral Science unit up from the basement (I believe) at Quantico.
Mindhunter season 2 will premiere on Netflix on August 16
About Mindhunter Season 2
FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) as well as Professor Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) are looking into the Atlanta Child Murders in the second season. Charles Manson (Damon Herriman, who also played Manson in Tarantino’s film Once Upon a Time in Hollywood) and David Berkowitz – aka Son of Sam are also expected to appear.
