Home > Mindhunter > Season 1 « TV Series Page Mindhunter: Season 1 (2017) SEASON: Season 1 Season 1 Season 2 Want to see Episode List Season 1 Mindhunter Critics Consensus Mindhunter distinguishes itself in a crowded genre with ambitiously cinematic visuals and a meticulous attention to character development. 97% TOMATOMETER Critic Ratings: 95 95% Audience Score User Ratings: 3466 NEW More Info × Close Want to see Super Reviewer Submit Super Reviewer Edit Review Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 It's 1977, and Holden Ford, a discouraged hostage mediator for the FBI, forms a surprising bond with seasoned agent Bill Tench as he examines a new breed of murderers. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 After Holden examines Ed Kemper, a bizarrely intelligible killer, the Bureau has an unfavorable response to his probing. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Holden and Tench's first victory in the form of an arrest comes after the addition of Dr. Wendy Carr. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Holden and Bill discuss with Dr. Carr and begin categorizing their research subjects. The team is shocked by a new development. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 After Holden examines Ed Kemper, a bizarrely intelligible killer, the Bureau has an unfavorable response to his probing. More 6 Episode 6 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Wendy contemplates a tempting offer. Bill and Holden find it hard to explain their research findings in the perplexing Altoona case to the authorities. More 7 Episode 7 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Wendy takes a chance and moves to join Bill and Holden full time. The team struggles to handle the emotional severity of their work. More 8 Episode 8 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Wendy and Bill meet with a potential addition to the team. After hearing reports of a school principal with a peculiar habit, Holden is enticed to investigate. More 9 Episode 9 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 During a troubling interview with serial killer Richard Speck, Holden's approach causes a rift among the team and sparks an internal FBI investigation. More 10 Episode 10 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 A stressful in-house scrutiny gets the best of the team. Holden's brash manner brings out a confession but endangers his relationships, health, and career. More Mindhunter: Season 1 Videos 1:00 Mindhunter: Season 1 Teaser 2:00 Mindhunter: Season 1 Trailer 0:32 Mindhunter: Season 1 Teaser - Sex With Your Face 1:05 Mindhunter: Season 1 Trailer 2 View All Videos (4) Mindhunter: Season 1 Photos View All Photos (10) Tv Season Info In the late 1970s two FBI agents expand criminal science by delving into the psychology of murder and getting uneasily close to all-too-real monsters. Genre: Drama Network: Netflix Premiere Date: Oct 13, 2017 Exec. Producers: David Fincher, Charlize Theron, Josh Donen, Ceán Chaffin Cast Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford Hannah Gross as Debbie Mitford Holt McCallany as Bill Tench Anna Torv as Wendy Cameron Britton as Edmund Kemper News & Interviews for Mindhunter: Season 1 Is Mindhunter Season 2 Better than Season 1? 10 TV Shows You Should Binge-Watch This August Best Movies and TV 2017 View All Mindhunter: Season 1 News Episodes 1 Episode 1 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 It's 1977, and Holden Ford, a discouraged hostage mediator for the FBI, forms a surprising bond with seasoned agent Bill Tench as he examines a new breed of murderers. More 2 Episode 2 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 After Holden examines Ed Kemper, a bizarrely intelligible killer, the Bureau has an unfavorable response to his probing. More 3 Episode 3 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Holden and Tench's first victory in the form of an arrest comes after the addition of Dr. Wendy Carr. More 4 Episode 4 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Holden and Bill discuss with Dr. Carr and begin categorizing their research subjects. The team is shocked by a new development. More 5 Episode 5 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 After Holden examines Ed Kemper, a bizarrely intelligible killer, the Bureau has an unfavorable response to his probing. More 6 Episode 6 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Wendy contemplates a tempting offer. Bill and Holden find it hard to explain their research findings in the perplexing Altoona case to the authorities. More 7 Episode 7 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Wendy takes a chance and moves to join Bill and Holden full time. The team struggles to handle the emotional severity of their work. More 8 Episode 8 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 Wendy and Bill meet with a potential addition to the team. After hearing reports of a school principal with a peculiar habit, Holden is enticed to investigate. More 9 Episode 9 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 During a troubling interview with serial killer Richard Speck, Holden's approach causes a rift among the team and sparks an internal FBI investigation. More 10 Episode 10 Air date: Oct 13, 2017 A stressful in-house scrutiny gets the best of the team. Holden's brash manner brings out a confession but endangers his relationships, health, and career. More Critic Reviews for Mindhunter Season 1 All Critics (95) | Top Critics (30) | Fresh (92) | Rotten (3) It's talk heavy, slick, Fincher crime adapted awesomely for the small screen. Feb 9, 2018 | Rating: 4.5/5 | Full Review… Amelia Navascues Triple J Top Critic Under the direction of Fincher, there is an unshowy, meticulous cinematic quality that draws you in, irresistibly, to its pale-brown world of desk jobs and smoky cinemas. Oct 13, 2017 | Rating: 5/5 | Full Review… Ben Lawrence Daily Telegraph (UK) Top Critic The show's at its most absorbing when it's spending time with monsters... Oct 13, 2017 | Full Review… Sophie Gilbert The Atlantic Top Critic Most TV crime dramas are whodunits. Columbo famously reversed things by starting with the murder, and making it a "How'd he get him?" Mindhunter, in contrast to both those approaches, is all about motive. It's a "Whydunit." Oct 12, 2017 | Full Review… David Bianculli NPR Top Critic Mindhunter, like Ford, is an odd duck, but oddness is its virtue. Oct 12, 2017 | Rating: 2.5/4 | Full Review… Verne Gay Newsday Top Critic Sometimes it's funny. Often it's chilling. But however you take it, at least "Mindhunter" is working a fresh angle. Oct 12, 2017 | Rating: B+ | Full Review… Ben Travers indieWire Top Critic David Fincher has made two great episodes, leaving his mark but without cannibalizing the proposal. [Full Review in Spanish] Aug 8, 2019 | Full Review… Mikel Zorrilla Espinof There has never been a more timely release date for a show about why men do the terrible things they do, or a better time to watch men work backwards, trying to figure each other out, saying what women already know. Jul 2, 2019 | Full Review… Hayley Campbell GQ Magazine [UK] Mindhunter is one of the most addictive Netflix series so far. [Full review in Spanish] Nov 21, 2017 | Full Review… Sebastian Zavala Kahn No Es En Serie Mindhunter is a mesmerizing and haunting tale as we watch engaging characters get inside the heads of serial killers. May 16, 2019 | Rating: 9.5/10 | Full Review… Kaitlyn Booth Bleeding Cool View All Critic Reviews (95) Audience Reviews for Mindhunter: Season 1 5d ago It is incredible how a serie can trap you just with dialogues. Vences V 5d ago The cinematography and sound design is alright. It's okay. The definition of mediocre. Having watched episode 1, nothing about it stands out, no particular scene beyond the one near the beginning with the fridge lighting against dark apartment is even close to being noticable or good. The writing, in my opinion, is terrible. This show is full of great concepts and executed poorly. The cast diversity is almost none. The chemistry between main character and the love interest seems non-existent to me, and their conversations were terribly awkward not only rightfully on part of the naive and confused Ford, but also on the love interest being confusing and unreadable. What do the scenes show? So far, I've seen nothing but telling. It tells you things are happening but as a viewer nothing substantial sticks. The delivery is as emotional and lively as reading off your index card during your class group presentation before Spring Break. All-in-all I would say that if you do not care about watching something good or interesting or challenges you in any way, can regularly turn your brain off for a show whose purpose is entertainment but personally has disinterested so wholly that I cannot bear watching past the first episode of awkward turn-off dialogue, and don't mind the unnecessary sex scenes, watch it. But for anyone that has taste and half an inch of standards I cannot in good and honest conscience recommend this show at all. This is not a good show. But it IS a show, and it is not badly shot-- It just doesn't stand out, and if the writing, pacing, second-hand embarassment-inducing character interactions can't be carried by the other aspects of a show, then it just isn't that good of a show. Disclaimer: I have only watched episode 1 and will only be watching episode 1 unless I've found convincing arguments that it gets better in any substantial way, so perhaps it does get better and the beginning of Season 1 is simply wholly uninspired. But if no sane person continues to watch a show that they've found no joy from the first episode, then I shan't as well. I was only drawn to this show because of the promise of a drama/thriller series focused around FBI agents focusing on the psychologies of murder and serial killers and the like, attempting to understand or unravel not just who did what, but also why. This was not it. I had rather low expectations because I chose to watch it on a whim with no recommendations and the show & the show's episode summaries are one-sentence, but I was still disappointed, especially after having watched better shows of similar concept like Ransom (hostage negotiation focused on the criminals, their motives, their psyches, and has interesting varied cast members) or Elementary (although more focused on whodunnit and howdunnit, well-shot and has plenty of interesting characters with great, visible, TANGIBLE character development unlike Holden Ford's flip-flop stagnant self where nothing changes or is reflected upon despite his sudden giving-in to crime by the coaxing of his love interest, namely accomplice to drunk-driving and drugs despite literally being FBI and not arguing against doing obviously illegal things past one or two lines.) Skye G 5d ago Sophisticated and absorbing. Season 2 even more so, as we get to know the characters on on more intimate level Caroline M Aug 10, 2019 In the levels of True Detective S1, Mindhunter is an achievement in Drama / Crime Series and solidifies David Fincher as a master in the genre Tiago V Aug 10, 2019 Good show. BUT get more people of colour in it!!! Ridiculous! Lomalicious H Aug 09, 2019 i don't know what is the purpose of this too much +18 scenes, you disturbing us while watching and concentrate on the story. Mohamed A Aug 02, 2019 Mind boggling methodologies and horrendously straight implications makes you go bathed breathe. Truly impeccable in every possible way🤟 KalYan N Jul 19, 2019 Well done but too disturbing for the sensitive Blobbo. Blobbo X Jul 12, 2019 There is no need to have many sexual scenes. Triu T Apr 29, 2019 The cinematography and subtlety of the character building, especially in Holden, was absolutely fantastic and reeled me in from the first minutes. 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