Fincher, an executive producer, has directed four of the 10 episodes-the first two and the last two-and his stamp is unmistakable on the show even when episodes are directed by distinctive film-makers like Asif Kapadia.
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A killer called Ed Kemper, known for decapitating his victims and performing sexual acts on their dismembered body parts, refers to his body of work as his oeuvre-a word mostly used for artists, particularly film-makers-and then asks the detective if he can spell “oeuvre".īased on the true crime book Mindhunter: Inside The FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit, the show is created by English-Australian playwright Joe Penhall and bears all the trademarks we have come to expect from Fincher’s work. The responses are unexpected, illuminating and often disarmingly articulate. The questions from the FBI agents are sharp, curious, reasoned-questions we would like answers to. The approach is investigative and even forensic, and the writing is insightful as well as fascinatingly structured. This is as grisly as subjects get, though Fincher-who made detective films like Zodiac and Se7en but also, it must be remembered, the staggeringly conversational masterpiece The Social Network-keeps his focus away from the gore and trains it on the way the mind works.
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A killer describes the idea of killing as something that “pops in your head like a sneeze", while another-a hulking man who speaks with the delicate deliberation of an oversized Philip Seymour Hoffman-explains what it truly means to cut a person’s neck from ear to ear: “People think it’s just an expression. They are looking for patterns as they try to unravel irrational criminal minds, while Fincher is grounding us in some of the best dialogue writing on television.
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Fincher’s show follows two FBI researchers, Holden Ford and Bill Tench, as they sit across the table and share pizza with sickening psychopaths and killers, in an attempt to see what makes them tick differently.