MINDHUNTER: ORIGIN

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3.8 • 1.6K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 59 minutes

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Summary

Join host Ryan Kraus for this introductory episode in a trilogy examining the hit crime series, Mindhunter, where we'll first descend into the basement of reality to uncover the driving force behind the show's revolutionary criminal psychology. What was its origin? Where do we go from here?

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0:15.8	Hey everybody welcome back to Cold Case Murder Mysteries. I'm your host Ryan Kraus returning to shine a light into the darkness once again as we delve into the evolutionary narrative lurking beneath the facade of the hit crime show, Mindhunter, which
0:21.8	dramatizes the true story of John Douglas and FBI Profiler who came to prominence in the 1970s as an innovator in the Bureau's Behavioral Science Unit. The show aired for two seasons, taking
0:35.8	us from Douglas' early days as an instructor at Quantico, through his conversations with
0:41.3	serial killers like Edmund Kemper and David Berkowitz, leading up to a shocking culmination, which is the controversial profiling and subsequent capture of the Atlanta monster Wayne Williams.
0:55.0	The show was created by Joe Penhall, based upon the 1995 book of the same name, written
1:00.7	by John Douglas and Mark Ulshaker.
1:03.0	But perhaps the most noticeable contribution in terms of its stylistic presentation
1:09.0	is from executive producer David Fincher, who in many brilliant films from Seven to Zodiac, has shown a very strong inclination toward indulging the psychological aspects of dark crime material.
1:23.0	On a personal note, if I could have any director make a movie about a serial killer in an unsolved case
1:30.0	and choose my suspect as the guilty party?
1:33.0	It would be Fincher directing a film about Arthur Lee Allen being Zodiac.
1:38.0	So strangely enough, I got my wish.
1:41.0	And with Mindhunter
1:43.0	venture fans get the same. We want to know what it was like to come face to face
1:48.6	with those monsters and hear their scary tales. This show takes us inside that place, which is, quite frankly,
1:57.0	into the minds of the killers, back to the point of origin about a singular yet evasive truth.
2:05.0	Why?
2:07.0	One of the more beautiful yet underappreciated aspects of Fincher's work
2:12.0	is that he is seemingly obsessed with utilizing a green
2:16.0	tent or hue in all of his work, leaving dark dreary scenes saturated in an inescapable glaze.
2:24.8	He claims to do this because most TV shows and films for a long time had a propensity for
2:30.8	being comprised with what he describes as a pink hue.
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