Mindhunter establishes itself as the first ever unique, dense, complex TV series in a while in the crowded genre of Crime/Thriller. It acts as a an exercise in challenging its audience and immersing them in complex character studies in a way that is technically compelling, purposefully educational and terrifying by the end of it.

Mindhunter's 1st season is very physcology-dense and can be very slow paced at times and suffering from a lack of action in the first episodes but it uses its slow buildup to create deep profiling and understanding of the criminal mind that forces the audience to grasp on these ideas and constantly wrestle with them throughout the whole show, that it becomes a psychologically intriguing experience for the audience. And that's how this series hits differently from other criminal series or thrillers.

It constantly deviates from the typical on-screen gore, visuals and action and sits you through long, deep, smart and character-building dialogues with a very accurate and meticulous recreation of setting, atmosphere and portrayal of serial killers at that time perfectly. It forces you to study and understand the behaviour of these killers more than just see an on-screen set of action scenes. It does this through a very unnerving and disturbing focus on details of their crimes, that it gets in your head and makes you re-imagine it all, and that is because the series always goes for wanting the audience to relive the events constantly as in a "story unfolding" manner and makes them recollect these details slowly with the characters, which vows for a much greater effect and makes the story very rich. It truly is astounding filmmaking from David Fincher here- the director of the classics of crime movies: Se7en and Zodiac.

Mindhunter is a must watch especially for David Fincher Fans and crime genre enthusiasts. It is a wholly original show that is very near- perfect and appeals in a very unique way to the audience.