MINDHUNTER

Fantastic Show

David Fincher, is the director of Zodiac, Fight Club, Gone Girl, and many other great films.

He hit it out of the park with this show as well. Shame it isn’t yet renewed for a third season.

Fincher x modern woke.

Though being set in the 70’s, the worldview in which the characters exist is very woke. The viewer will have to wade through the swampy world in order to find the rhythm of the story. But once it gets there, arguably, it’s entertaining.

The protagonist is meant to be a 2020's-style modern, progressive feminist male in an 70's environment inhabited with racist, emotional men. He has an emasculating, vulgar girlfriend, establishing him as a beta masochist who’s into manly dominatrix types. Character-wise, it’s telling. There’s even a scene of him ironing his own shirts in front of her while she looks on with distain.

All women characters make disparaging “men are weak” comments. All women are masculine, overbearing and have lines saying verbatim, “I’m tough.” There is no normal or in-between with the female characters. This flat, cookie-cutter character might be the director’s aim, depicting how emasculation didn’t necessarily have the serial-killer result on the effeminate protagonist that it did on the serial killers in question.
And yes, identity politics. Gay, gay, gay. "Representation matters." The manly teacher character is a lesbian. If you’re into that stuff, there is lots of sex of all types, often depraved.

There are hints in the beta protagonist’s lectures like “we shouldn’t incarcerate criminals,” and any cops which think criminals should atone for their crimes are portrayed as stubborn, emotional morons. It’s disingenuous, too, because while the protagonist argues that nothing is black and white, the director only makes black and white types in his own movie.

The story is interesting, and Fincher is always twisted enough to make great stuff, but he hit pretty much every woke branch on the way down the Hollywierd tree with this one. At the moment the only woke stuff this drama lacks is pedophilia and political jabs, but I don’t know if I can get get far enough into the series to find out if he ticks those boxes, too.

I watched season 1 when it came out in 2017 then there was a 2 year pause between seasons and I never watched season 2 until now. The review is mostly for seasons 2 as I don't remember enough of season 1 for a real review. The acting is very good and the show is at it's best when it sticks to what it's supposed to be which is psychological crime thriller. It's about a true story with real people who conducted interviews with serial killers establish a department at the F.B.I. for profiling. Unfortunately way to much time is spent on fake side story drama that doesn't matter and is just boring. The entire subplot with Bill's kid is so forced and unrealistic and serves no purpose but to take up time. Plus it's completely fictional and never happened to the real life 'Bill'. about halfway through the season it almost completely gives up on the interviews and profiling and turns into a manhunt. The character
of Wendy Carr is lesbian and there is a significant portion of every episode spent to her pointless lesbian relationship. However once again it's a complete lie, the real life 'Wendy' is not a lesbian, just more woke garbage to take up more screen time. About 20-30 minutes of every episode is actually a crime thriller and the rest is throughway force drama and woke. After episode 2 the focus becomes largely on a serial killer in Atlanta and from this point on the show takes
every opportunity to shove racism and anti-white garbage onto the screen. The lesbian is of course brilliant and much better than her white male partner on interviews but naturally she's oppressed in the workplace. The characters identity becomes 'I'm a lesbian' and it's forced into as many scenes as they can. Episode 5 has a lesbian sex scene as well as a straight white male being inappropriate and creepy towards the lesbian character. Episode 6 has an interview with a gay killer including some gay sex descriptions. There is a great show here but unfortunately
it's buried under all the woke agenda and filler fake drama that's just not worth wading through. Also cancelled after season 2 with no real closure.