Oh lord, watching Mindhunter immediately after binging S1 of Life On Mars was a terrible idea. I had already finished watching the whole Sensitive Cop Fantasy play out with great skill and passion. Mindhunter wouldn't have stood a chance even if the script didn't play out like a tenth-grade essay on What Criminal Psychology Means To Me.

One thing I really didn't get: what was the obsession with making all the "old school" cops talk about how criminals were just plain born bad? Wouldn't the conventional moralistic position have been "people decide to commit crimes because they have chosen A Path Of Evil?" Isn't the whole fucking point of criminal psychology that some people have organic disorders that cause them to behave antisocially?

Anyhow, the whole thing felt like a mess to me—one put through a blender and served up on a spoon by someone who didn't think I could process anything harder.

Oh, and using "surveilling Yoko" as a deliberately weak-ass example of FBI misdeeds so we could keep empathizing with Our Hero—instead of, say, "relentlessly persecuting civil rights leaders" didn't win them any points either. What the hell do the critics see in this show?!