wendy's storyline was totally disposable
Sometimes, life is just dark. People are left with no answers and more questions. People are left angry, sad and with no hope.
I applaud this series for not going the easy way. But instead, the hard way.
The ending was...disheartening to say the least. But also a very nice set up for a third season.
I wish they would show more interviews. I still absolutely loved the entire season and what it sets up for the the third but I really love those interview scenes.
I have some mixed feelings about this season. In general I did enjoy it and watched it within two days, but some smaller things weren't really my cup of tea.
- Wendy's relationship story seemed as pointless as Holden's story in the first season. I do want to know more about the private lives of the main characters, but somehow that story didn't work for me. I guess Wendy learned that even people who seem free and careless aren't? Not sure what to take from that story. To me it mostly just feels like they tried to give her a story because she would have been stuck in the basement with paper work otherwise.
- Holden's panic attack was so prominent - At first it was a cliffhanger at the end of season 1, then it seems to be a huge deal in the first one or two episodes of this season. It really seemed like he has to learn how to cope with panic attacks and find some balance in his work life. But... there was nothing? Bill and Wendy kept talking about it at first, but the issue basically vanished into thin air. Did the writers forget about it? I would have liked to see some struggle or connection to that once in a while.
- The Atlanta murders were awful and it hurts to know that most of them are still unsolved. I admit that a part of me feels disappointed by that ending (especially after most of this season was focused on this case), but they really stuck with the real story in all their cases, so I guess that's just the dark reality.
- Something I'm really disappointed by is that we got less of the interviews. They were the highlights for me everytime and I really missed them in the last episodes. It was like the special spark was missing. The interviews are something that make this show special for me, so I really hope they'll do more of them in the next season.
The finale wasn't very finale like. It was't bad. That's basically what happened. The dude was creepy. What the show didn't need to do was was double down on the gloom with the personal lives.
That 2019 update at the end there. Wow.
Really brings home the problems with the legal system and when it crosses over with the political.
P.s. That change up on the opening sequence. Never has acapella been so creepy.
For this being a fictional retelling of the Atlanta child monster murders, they accurately put a lot of real details that made it much more enjoyable to watch. If you haven't heard it yet, listen to the Atlanta monster podcast. I found myself remembering exact details from the podcast that were almost exactly copied into the show, like the cops catching Wayne the very last night and one office hearing a splash. Even Wayne's first words out of his mouth asking if they're stopping him for the child murders.
Chapeau for stating the true story as it is despite the fact it made a very weak season finale...
damn it, I thought there was going to be at least one more ep T_T
I cannot believe netflix would do us like that
i'm so pissed off by the way it ended
Really want to know what will goes on. Still 27 childer muder not have evidence. Also some article said it's someone else. Might never know the real truth.
Very good season finale but I wish they shown us more of Wendy in the last two episodes.
"I think he's a narcissist who considers himself smarter than every other person in the room" I love this show I need more seasons!!!!
Very good episode! After a bunch of intellectually challenged killers, it was exciting to have, once again, in front of Bill and Holden, an allegedly serial killer who they were unable to shake down and push into a corner. Did he do it? Didn't he do it? That, somehow, became irrelevant, since the important thing was the thrilling of the chase and the excitement of the investigation, of closing in on a suspect, the nail biting tension of interviewing him. That was what enabled this episode to be one of the most tense ones of the whole season. Closure became a mere accessory in this season finale, it was the whole journey to where they got that was worth the watching.
Too bad Wendy was pretty much a useless character throughout the season, contributing jack shit for the ending (or even for the investigation of the main case). The writers clearly didn't tie things together nicely in a pretty package as they did with the first season. Still, Mindhunter managed to close two excellent seasons, with the prospect of an intriguing third season following suit, hopefully bringing back the focus on interviews with murderers rather than giving in to the more common (and not as interesting) procedural type of show.
I really loved the acappela opening credits song, it brought out the raw humanity that reeks throughout the episodes, serving as an eerie reminder that this is a show about humans trying to understand other humans who murder their own kind.
Really good show. Very good acting and portrayal of this time period. Enjoyed last 3 episodes since I was getting tired of watching them interview serial killers. I enjoyed the actual investigation of suspect more. A little disappointed in the finale. No resolution. What was with the guy in the beginning of each episode earlier in the season? Did I miss something? Who was he and what did he have to do with all of this?
what a fucking crazy show
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27 cases left just like that. Damn. As for TV show the season started stronger than it ended. Some things were a bit off.
"In March 2019, the Atlanta police, under the order of Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms, reopened the cases in hopes that new technology will lead to a conviction."
"Campos denies this. “No TV shows or podcasts have had anything to do with our taking another look at this case. Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms asked our Chief Erika Shields to take another look after she was approached by family members of the child murder victims,” he says, adding that the producers of Mindhunter did not reach out to the Atlanta Police Department while developing the second season."