Had some trouble sleeping last night after finishing season 2 of Mindhunter!

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Especially the opening and closing shots with the BTK killer *shudders

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It seemed to me that what made the biggest difference was that Holden only really seemed excited about two of the serial killer interviews, otherwise he seemed pretty much over that aspect of it, I guess that they were more ready to start applying their theories to real world cases this season. And it probably didn’t help that it was based on a real life murder investigation, and those don’t always tend to be as neatly tied up as tv shows. I was a bit confused at first at all of these doubts and sense of let down being introduced in the end after it seemed so certain at first that they had their guy, and then it all made a lot more sense when I read up on the real case that it was based on, but of course tv crime/detective shows don’t usually end that ambiguously as a general rule, so that was something a bit different from what many viewers were perhaps expecting. Tbh I was kind of expecting Holden to work up a way more detailed profile, and for the unit to be a lot more helpful when it came to tracking down the killer, and instead it all seemed to be rather vague

And I'm not sure, I know that the actors have mentioned that the creator has a five year plan, but what that means with Netflix these days I have no idea, I don’t think that there’s been an official renewal announcement yet. It seems to be very critically acclaimed though, plus there’s the prestige of a David Fincher project when he usually does tv, so idk hopefully that might convince them to see out the five year plan as the actors have said that they’re all onboard? It will be super frustrating not to end it with some kind of epilogue to tie up the BTK case at the very least!