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The first season of Netflix’s Mindhunter was a big deal for fans of David Fincher, especially the David Fincher who occasionally dips into the world of true crime. Like his 2007 film Zodiac, the TV series–which he helped create, produce, and direct–is a fascinating, cerebral journey into the psyche of those who study serial killers, more than it’s even about the killers themselves. At the center of the story is FBI special agent Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), who struggles with his own sanity as he kickstarts the bureau’s Behavioral Science Unit, to profile and map the minds of serial killers in the hopes of preventing future crimes.

The first season followed Ford as his mental strength unraveled as he plunged deeper into his work. Now, we have our first full trailer for season two, where it looks like his struggles are far from over–this time complicated by an even more in-depth, upsetting murder case.

One of the more brilliant aspects of Mindhunter is that it weaves true crime into the fictionalized FBI. Here, for instance, we see Ford, his partner Bill Tench (Hoyt McCallany), and psychology professor Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) working on the Atlanta Child Murders, a real-life case that claimed the lives of 28 black Atlanta children and young adults from 1979 to 1981. It appears that Ford is once again a stand-in for John Douglas, a real agent who got in hot water for his participation in the case, and who wrote the book (Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit) that inspired the show.

Elsewhere in the trailer we meet the BSU’s new director, played by Michael Cerveris, which should be exciting for fans of the sci-fi series Fringe. (Cerveris played an Observer on that series opposite Torv’s Olivia Dunham, so this season will serve as a mini-reunion between the two actors.) We also see that Ford is still pressing for an opportunity to interview Charles Manson, which is granted by Cerveris’s character grants him. What help–if any–will Manson provide?

We’ll find out for certain when the second season of Mindhunter lands on Netflix on August 16.
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Netflix has launched a new promotional campaign for Mindhunter Season 2! Check out the new Mindhunter interactive website at whatswrongwithcomplicated.tv for new promotional stills and motion imagery by Miles Crist! The Season 2 teaser trailer has also just been released as part of the new marketing campaign!

Netflix is now offering an interactive first look at Mindhunter Season 2 — with a catch.

Members of the press have been given access to an interactive gallery of over 200 photos. Each member of the press can access 8 photos from the gallery, which is displayed as a compilation of slides called The Lightbox. Exploration of these photos unlocks a teaser trailer for Season 2, which has yet to be publicly released. Each press outlet is hosting a different set of first look photos, creating a sort of scavenger hunt for those looking to get a glimpse into the new season.

Netflix has asked us to refrain from sharing the entire set of Season 2 photos, but don’t miss these sites for new exclusive photos of Anna Torv as Dr. Wendy Carr:

Broadway World, Collider, ET Canada, Entertainment Weekly, FDB, Filmożercy, Flixist, Metro, naEKRANIE, Paste Magazine, Slashfilm, TV Sorrisi e Canzoni, Świat Seriali, That Shelf, The Wrap, TV Guide, Wprost, Pressview, Serialowa

Season 2 premieres on August 16th, 2019.
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Netflix’s Mindhunter will resume… mindhunting?… this August, nearly two years after Season 1 dropped.

During a podcast with The Treatment‘s Elvis Mitchell, Mindhunter executive producer/director David Fincher announced that Season 2 — which will span just eight episodes, two fewer than the freshman run — will premiere on Friday, August 16.

Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany will return as FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench, while Anna Torv will reprise her role as Carrie Coon psychology professor Wendy Carr.

Fincher has said that Season 2 will be set during the time of the Atlanta child murders of 1979-81, during which African-American serial killer Wayne Williams was tried, convicted and sentenced to life imprisonment for killing two adult males. Williams, however, was never tried for any of the child murders, 23 of which he was suspected of being involved with.

Other serial killers to be featured in Season 2 include Charles Manson (played by Justified‘s Damon Herriman) and David Berkowitz aka “Son of Sam.”

Fincher will reportedly direct the Season 2 premiere and finale, with Andrew Dominik and Carl Franklin helming the rest.

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Check out the first official promo from FOX SHOWCASE below!

Anna Torv (Fringe, Mindhunter) reprises her Logie Award winning role as Harriet Dunkley and once again joins two-time Academy Award nominee Jacki Weaver (Animal Kingdom, Silver Linings Playbook) to lead an outstanding ensemble cast, for the series filmed in Parliament House and locations across Canberra and Sydney.

Adding to the stellar cast line-up are Logie Award winning actors Danielle Cormack (Wentworth, Rake, Underbelly Razor) who plays maverick Independent MP Karen Kotoufides, Don Hany (Ali’s Wedding, Tangle) who plays Australian Prime Minister Ewan Garrity and Rob Collins (The Wrong Girl, Cleverman) who plays Lieutenant Joseph Sullivan.

The impressive line-up also includes Laura Gordon (Hoges, Hunters), veteran actor Andrew MacFarlane (Glitch, Devil’s Playground), Justin Smith (Devil’s Playground, Deadline Gallipoli), Joel Tobeck (Lord of The Rings, The Doctor Blake Mysteries), Louisa Mignone (Rake, Ms Fisher’s Modern Murder Mysteries), Marcus Graham (Janet King, Crownies) and Sacha Horler (The Dressmaker, The Kettering Incident) amongst others.

Secret City: Under the Eagle picks up with Harriet Dunkley (Torv), not long out of prison and unwittingly ensnared in a military and political cover-up with Catriona Bailey’s (Weaver) fingerprints all over it.

Harriet’s search for the truth leads her back into Canberra’s corridors of power, this time working for a maverick Independent MP (Cormack).

What she unearths is a military program so secret not even the Prime Minister (Hany) is aware of it and begs the question of who is really running the country?

Secret City: Under the Eagle is written by Matt Cameron (writer/co-producer/creator- Sunshine, writer/producer- Jack Irish) and Belinda Chayko (showrunner/writer- Safe Harbour, story producer/writer- Barracuda) who both wrote for the first series and playwright Angela Betzien (Eggs, The Hanging) and Elise McCredie (Sunshine, Nowhere Boys).

Stephen Corvini (Safe Harbour, Hyde and Seek) is producer for the series, Matt Cameron is showrunner and Executive Producers are Foxtel’s Head of Drama Penny Win and Drama development executive Carly Heaton and Penny Chapman from Matchbox Pictures.

Secret City: Under the Eagle is directed by Tony Krawitz (The Kettering Incident, Devil’s Playground) and Daniel Nettheim (Doctor Who, Broadchurch).

The first series of Secret City was inspired by the best-selling novels The Marmalade Files and The Mandarin Code, written by political journalists Chris Uhlmann and Steve Lewis who join this series as story consultants.

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