With season 2 of Mindhunter barreling down the pike at me ... wanted to re-up this old thread, where I tried to put into words the tone of the book ... which is very hard to pin down ... since it feels inadvertent on the part of the author. Fincher felt it too.
Looking through that old thread and remembering having a good conversation with @meganeabbott about it. It's difficult to put into words - the feel of that original book - and how well Fincher translated it (imo) into the adaptation.
@meganeabbott Here's the book. It's excellent! I read it long before this series came along. This and Robert Ressler's work - long-time fascinations of mine: amazon.com/Mindhunter-Ins…
@meganeabbott This past year has been really weird for us long-time true crime buffs. The Ted Bundy movie, the QT movie, all these people tut-tutting with horror over "why are you interested in this stuff?" Uhm, b/c True Crime is a bazillion $ biz, I don't know where YOU'VE been.
@meganeabbott and the Chris Watts case too was this past year and it gripped a vast portion of the True Crime community for a good 6 months, esp. when the FBI interrogators went back to the prison to question him - mainly b/c they too were like "WTF makes this monster tick...."
@meganeabbott and all of it was recorded by the interrogators and then released onto Youtube. A matter of public record. The Mindhunter quality of all of it - how those interrogators drew him out - flattering him - etc. - my True Crime peeps and I were RIVETED.
@meganeabbott Exhibit A:
@meganeabbott Very excited for season 2 to start!
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