David Fincher reflects on his series MINDHUNTER and why Netflix canceled it

Mind hunter was one of those all-around amazing shows that was canceled before its full story could be told. I’m still upset that Netflix canceled it and that we won’t see how the story would have ended. During a recent interview with Premiere magazine, for Fincher AnalystCreator David Fincher reflected on the show and why Netflix canceled it, saying:

“Maybe House of Cards wasn’t a big risk, but Mindhunter was. A behavioral science procedural that wouldn’t be The X-Files, or CSI, or Criminal Minds, but would function as a portrait of a boy who loses his virginity in the world of psychosexual sadists? We couldn’t complete the journey, but it was a gamble. An expensive series, too. Very expensive. We went as far as we could until someone finally told us: ‘There’s no point in producing this series is like that, unless you reduce the budget or make it poppier, so more people watch it.’

“We didn’t want to change our approach so they respectfully told us they were drawing a bottom line. It’s just like this: I always take a small step back from what is expected of me. Otherwise I don’t care. During a test screening of Seven, in the second of silence just before the lights went back on, while everyone was panting, I caught the producer swearing at me: “This guy took a great thriller and made a foreign film out of it.” !'”

Combining true crime and fiction, the series is based on the 1995 book “Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,” written by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker. The series is set in the 1970s and follows FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) as they set up a unit that studies convicted serial killers to try to determine what, if anything, makes one.

Over the course of the show’s first two seasons, the team examined killers like Ed Kemper (Cameron Britton), Jerry Brudos (Happy Anderson), Wayne Williams (Christopher Livingston) and Charles Manson (Damon Herriman).

In the process, the series was also building to BTK’s story, the conclusion of which we will never see. As for what season three might have entailed, series director Andrea Dominik He explains: “What they were going to do with season three was they were going to go away [to] Hollywood. So one of them would befriend Jonathan Demme and the other would befriend Michael Mann. And everything would focus on profiling to make it become a sort of zeitgeist, the public consciousness. It was going to be… That was the season that everyone was really waiting for, the one where they would come out of the basement and start.”

A couple of years ago, Fincher said, “At some point, I’d like to revisit it. The hope was to get to the late ’90s, early 2000s, hopefully, get to the people.” knocking on the door at Dennis Rader’s house.”

But the show is dead. When we spoke previously the reason why it would not continue, he explained that it was a very expensive show and that he is not sure “if it makes sense to continue”. He said: “It was an expensive show. It had a very passionate audience, but we never got numbers that justified the cost.”

It was also explained that the series was “exhausting” for Fincher. The director had previously explained: “It’s a 90-hour work week. It absorbs everything in your life. When I finished, I was pretty exhausted and said, “I don’t know if I can make it right now to put down season three.”

Fincher said: “I definitely needed some time away. We were all hands on deck to finish [season two] and we didn’t have a lot of scripts and a lot of outlines and a Bible waiting for season three. I have to admit, I was kind of like, ‘I don’t know if I’m ready to spend another two years in the crawl space.'”