Mindhunter series

This time I would like to write just a few words about the series that I watched some time ago. You can find Mindhunter on Netflix, and it's a really great series. It is definitely not a typical detective story. 

It's 1979. FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, with psychologist Wendy Carr operate the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit within the Training Division at the FBI Academy. They interview imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, with the hope of applying this knowledge to solve ongoing cases and also to discover how they become murders (what conditions they caused them, in what families they lived, details of their lives, emotions, etc.). 

In addition to conversations with murderers who actually look like their real counterparts, there are also current events and we can see how the main characters deal with their daily lives and how work affects their relationships. 

Below you can see one of the murderers who is being questioned in the second season, Charles Manson. He was convicted of first-degree murder and conspiracy to commit murder for the deaths of seven people, including the film actress Sharon Tate.

The worst, and perhaps the most interesting, is that by learning about the thoughts of some murderers and hearing how they have been treated or humiliated before, you can begin to sympathize with them (for example, Ed Kemper seems to be a very nice guy). But still, very quickly from descriptions of how they were treated, they may move on to descriptions of how they treated or murdered their victims without a trace of pity, so this compassion wears off as quickly as it appears.

I highly recommend this series. In my opinion, good criminal puzzles are very rare. Here, apart from conversations with murderers, there are also current murder cases, psychological aspects, and disturbed interpersonal relations. It is simply a very complex, interesting and really surprising picture of the reality of the twentieth century.