Review of season 2 of 'Mindhunter': ending with links that unite – Spoilers

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While fully utilizing David Fincher's icy aesthetic and providing just enough terrifying prison visits to meet expectations, "Mindhunter" brings many sensible changes during Season 2. Most notable is a change in protagonist, such as Holt McCallany drank the attractive buzzcut of a cop, Bill Tench, takes center stage in front of Holden Ford, a stubborn man who plays with a detachment inviting Jonathon's curiosity groff. This early change is even more predictable, as the behavioral analysis based on the research presented in season 1 is put to the test in the field during season 2. The killer of BTK (Sonny Valicenti) is still in the news. times in the series – like a big bad guy in training who, instead of lifting weights or recruiting an army, practice auto-erotic asphyxiation with a doll mask – but these nine episodes look at how the l? Public scrutiny and systemic political issues can tarnish the lofty intentions.

To summarize, season 2 of "Mindhunter" shows how racial blindness of white cops has legitimized racial profiling at the national level. And although we have seen another story of black tragedy told from a white point of view, it's very, very good.

How Holden goes from an annoying problem to a critical support

The season begins with a useless pretense. After a disturbing encounter with Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton), Holden begins waking up in a hospital, hands and feet under control, while doctors rush to sedate him. It seems that his panic attack is more than a panic attack – as if he could be acting out of a total nervous breakdown or worse – but then he does not go away. was acting as a series of panic attacks. "Mindhunter" never really comes back after the first episodes, although we can say that the course of Holden in season 2 is identical to that of season 1, without a dramatic break: he stubbornly his policy implemented, successfully following him "close, and then is forced to reckon with the moral collapse of what he did.

So how did he end up making the same mistakes? Well, this time, the system has the back! Instead of hiding his work at the FBI's suspicious upper echelons, Holden's behavioral analysis is supported by a new director. Ted Gunn (Michael Cerveris), from D.C.'s Public Affairs Division, sees in Holden's sexy plot and Tench's work a way to give the FBI an image makeover. If these advanced methods can catch multiple murderers (or serial killers), then the FBI could be called upon to intervene in a series of high-profile cases and to gain national recognition as a law enforcement system. more powerful and the most powerful in the world. the country.

At first, Holden and Tench are all for increased resources and exposure. That's what Holden has been asking for since the beginning, but the addition of paperwork and public attention are starting to weigh heavily on him. While Tench no longer plays with pleasure at the hands of power, just interviewing Charles Manson (Damon Herriman), Holden tries to apply his psychological profiling to catch the murderer in Atlanta. After being recruited to help by a desperate hotel employee, Tanya Clifton (Sierra McClain), Holden meets a group of mothers who are conducting their own investigation into the murder or disappearance of their children, as local police do not want to hear nothing.

Holden, as an opportunistic stand-up, sees the links between a dozen kids and takes the opportunity to try and do some good in the real world. He and Tench are deployed in Atlanta and working alongside a local police force to end the growing number of people, but the media has been very interested in this case. This means that the mayor is watching, that the chief of police does not want to give up control and that local cops from several counties must come together to support several leaders with different ideas.

The murders of children in Atlanta

"Hunter spirit"

Courtesy of Netflix

Many of the problems in this scenario (based on the 1979/81 murders of Atlanta children) should be familiar to the modern public: a predominantly white police force in a predominantly black community. Of course, the mayor and the police chief are black, but it is Georgia in the late 1970s, and no one should be surprised to learn that some officers are not only connected to the Ku Klux Klan, but are active members. So, a frustrated and frightened Afro-American population does not want to hear about Holden's research that the murderer is a black man between the ages of 20 and 30 – the cops in town are already looking for blacks and are leaving the KKK running rampant.

Holden (being Holden) does not really care about the sensitivity of the public discourse. He wants to catch the killer, and all he learns is that the killer is a black man. In an intelligent and insular criticism of his blind spots, the cops of Holden's theory are systematically criticized by police and black citizens. Agent Jim Barney (Albert Jones), who plays a larger role in Season 2, explains to Holden why the results of field experiments conducted with black children in downtown Baltimore are not necessarily relevant to black children in the suburbs of Atlanta – Holden only sees black children. but Jim sees different people.

Although Fincher directs the first three episodes and Andrew Dominik, two others, Carl Franklin ("The Devil in Blue Dress," "The Remains") handles the last four and brings home the embarrassing behavior of the white police with a flop of ghosts. In particular, there is a scene where Holden is obsessed with the idea that the killer will return to the scene of his crimes if enough attention is given to these sites. He decides to plant two large white crosses along a memorial route and asks the mothers who organized him to stop at each cross for a moment of silence. But when the cross ordering process is cluttered with paperwork, Holden has to run through the parade, wearing a shiny white cross on his back, while silent parades watch his exhaustive efforts with disinterest. By the time he receives a cross at the top of the church steps, the marchers have almost caught up, and their leader, Camille Bell (June Carryl), stops and stares at the white savior foolish who disrespects the pure intentions of healing. of his walk.

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