Mindhunter is one of Netflix’s best TV shows, and though it unfairly ended too soon, its best replacement is also on Netflix and has an 85% critics' score on Rotten Tomatoes . In 2017, Netflix released the psychological crime thriller TV series Mindhunter , based on the 1995 true-crime book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit , by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker.
Mindhunter follows FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), who, along with psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), operate the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit. The team launches a research project to interview serial killers to understand their psychology. Their purpose is to apply this knowledge to solving ongoing cases.
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