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4 Burning Questions After Watching “Mindhunter” Season Two

What's the deeper message Mindhunter is trying to tell us?

Netflix FYSEE 'Mindhunter' TV Show Panel, Los Angeles, CA, USA - 01 Jun 2018

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There's a scene in episode six of Mindhunter 's season two wherein detective Holden Ford, played by Jonathan Groff, tells the police chief in Atlanta that all serial killers want a lasting story: a mythos.

His tone implies that this is something ultimately distasteful, something to manipulate for the sake of coercing the killer to make a mistake. The irony, of course, is that Mindhunter's entire existence creates that mythos for real-life serial killers. I'm far from the first to say that elevating murderers to mythical status for the sake of sensationalism is irresponsible and vapid.

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Netflix's "Love, Death & Robots" Is a NSFW Seizure

David Fincher and Tim Miller bring you this sci-fi nerd fantasy 15 years in the making.

Love Death-n- Robots

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Sexy robots, futuristic car chases, and gory battles with machines have been on the minds of David Fincher (Mindhunter) and Tim Miller (Deadpool) for years.

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