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Viewers say this psychological thriller is the 'best thing Netflix has produced'
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Published 17:09 13 Apr 2024 GMT+1

Viewers say this psychological thriller is the 'best thing Netflix has produced'

"Can't express enough how good this show was.. I literally had a void in my life when it ended"

Poppy Bilderbeck

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Topics: Crime, Entertainment, Film and TV, Mental Health, Netflix, True crime, US News

Poppy Bilderbeck
Poppy Bilderbeck

Poppy Bilderbeck is a freelance journalist with words in Daily Express, Cosmopolitan UK, LADbible, UNILAD and Tyla. She is a former Senior Journalist at LADbible Group. She graduated from The University of Manchester in 2021 with a First in English Literature and Drama, where alongside her studies she was Editor-in-Chief of The Tab Manchester. Poppy is most comfortable when chatting about all things mental health, is proving a drama degree is far from useless by watching and reviewing as many TV shows and films as possible.

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Netflix users are flooding to social media in praise of a psychological thriller with 'one of the most terrifying scenes on TV'.

There may be other psychological thrillers out there which have left viewers 'speechless' or even rivalled Shutter Island, but quite frankly, none of them even compare to the beauty of a series which was first released onto the streaming service in 2017.

All other psychological thrillers can bow down (Netflix)
All other psychological thrillers can bow down (Netflix)

Cast and synopsis

The psychological crime thriller series was created by Joe Penhall and is based on the 1995 true crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker.

Directed David Fincher, it stars Jonathan Gross as FBI Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) Special Agent Holden Ford, Holt McCallany as fellow BSU Special Agent Bill Tench and Anna Torv as Boston University psychology professor and later BSU member Wendy Carr.

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Spanning two seasons, the series - titled Mindhunter - centres around the investigations of the BSU into the minds of criminals, trying to distinguish certain patterns in a bid to ultimately be able to understand how serial killers think and be able to predict their next steps and solve ongoing cases.

The first season may've first come out in 2017, the second following in 2019, however, fans of the show still aren't over it - and some people are also just very late to the party - many flooding to social media in awe. Prepare to cancel all your plans for the rest of the weekend:

Reaction

Mindhunter was shared to LADbible Facebook page Netflix Bangers.

The original post - uploaded to Netflix Memes - read: "The best thing Netflix has produced is MINDHUNTER!"

The user who shared it to Netflix Bangers wrote: "Personally agree."

And it's not taken long for people to flood to the comments to echo the same sentiment further.

One user wrote: "I have rewatched twice. EXCELLENT," as another added: "Fact."

A third commented: "MindHunter is an extremely brilliant series, The best I've seen in a long long time."

And a fourth wrote: "Cant express enough how good this show was..I literally had a void in my life when it ended."

But has it really ended?

You immediately plugging in to watch Mindhunter after you read the reviews (Netflix)
You immediately plugging in to watch Mindhunter after you read the reviews (Netflix)

Another season?

Well, in 2020, Netflix told Vulture: "David [Fincher] is focused on directing his first Netflix film Mank and on producing the second season of Love, Death and Robots.

"He may revisit Mindhunter again in the future, but in the meantime felt it wasn’t fair to the actors to hold them from seeking other work while he was exploring new work of his own."

Mindhunter was ultimately placed on hold, Fincher noting how much of a big budget it required also being a factor to consider in whether a third season was greenlit.

But with fans of the show having pleaded for a third season, perhaps the time will come and as one X user said, sharing a still from that scene: "Legit this is one of the most terryfing scenes I've ever seen on TV. Bring back #Mindhunter."

So Netflix? Fincher? How about it?

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