It’s official, Mindhunter will not have season 3. David Fincher explained the reasons for its cancellation by Netflix.
End of the suspense around Mindhunter, one of Netflix’s best series. The American giant has decided not to offer it a season 3, as David Fincher explained in an interview given to the Sunday newspaper. And contrary to what one might have thought, it’s not linked to the director’s (very) busy schedule:
“I’m very proud of the first two seasons. But it’s a particularly expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we haven’t attracted enough of an audience to justify such an investment.
I don’t blame them, they took risks to launch the series, gave me the means to do as I dreamed Mank [son film en noir et blanc sur le Hollywood des années 1930] and they allowed me to venture down new paths with The Killer.
It’s a chance to be able to work with people capable of audacity. The day when our desires will no longer be the same, we will have to be honest to separate.”
If we don’t realize at all the post-production work that Mindhunter requires, the video below allows us to understand its magnitude. It should be remembered that the series worn by Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany takes place in the 80s and that it was therefore necessary to rework the sets to make the whole authentic. And that has a cost.
The cancellation of Mindhunter therefore means that Ford and Tench will not investigate Dennis Rader, also nicknamed BTK (for bind, torture, kill / tie up, torture, kill), who appears in the watermark in season 2.
This serial killer is sadly famous for having murdered a dozen people between 1970 and 1980. Meticulous but with a strong need for recognition, he sent letters to local newspapers to recount his crimes, to attribute the murders to himself and to terrorize the inhabitants of Wichita.
Dennis Rader had a fairly clear modus operandi: a fetishist, he kept as a souvenir trophies, the underwear of the women he killed (a widespread practice among serial killers).
What he likes is recreating crime scenes, replacing his victim. He wears their clothes as well as a woman’s mask and self-asphyxiates to achieve sexual pleasure (asphyxiophilia) by placing a rope around his neck. Season 3 of Mindhunter should have focused on his hunt but not his arrest, which only took place in 2005…
This misadventure will in any case not have tarnished relations between the director and the streaming platform, as evidenced by his interview. Especially since Fincher signed a 4-year deal with Netflix some time ago and subscribers will discover in a few months their next collaboration, entitled The Killer, with Michael Fassbender. Discover all the info here.