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Take a first look inside MIND­HUNTER Sea­son 2

17 Jul 2019

Words by Charles Bramesco

Three men in suits sitting at a table in a dimly lit room with a wire mesh barrier.
Three men in suits sitting at a table in a dimly lit room with a wire mesh barrier.
David Finch­er and Netflix’s crime thriller returns 16 August – with some famil­iar faces…

The public’s hunger for true-crime enter­tain­ment will nev­er be ful­ly sat­ed, but the sec­ond sea­son of Netflix’s hit David Finch­er-pro­duced series MIND­HUNTER will do quite nice­ly when it debuts on 16 August. Until then, how­ev­er, fans will have to set­tle for an expect­ed­ly cryp­tic pro­mo­tion­al cam­paign for a show pre­oc­cu­pied with code-cracking.

Net­flix offered mem­bers of the press the chance to select eight stills from an array of dozens and dozens avail­able for down­load, com­pil­ing a sort of pseu­do-case file to tease the new episodes. Fol­low­ing much brow-fur­rowed con­sid­er­a­tion, we’ve deemed the fol­low­ing images the most telling for the impend­ing tromp back into the dark­est cor­ners of the human psyche.

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Crowd of people gathered on a city street at night, with a police presence and a car visible.
Neon sign for "The Strand" cinema with green text, red title, and car parked in front of building.
Middle-aged man holding handwritten sign showing religious symbols.
Hands holding a sketch pad with a pencil sketch visible on the pages.
Dimly lit office scene with 3 people sitting at a desk, discussing.
Dark, stormy ocean with crashing waves under a gloomy, cloudy sky.
An old doorknob and grimy tile wall in a dimly lit room.
Two people sitting at a table in a dimly lit room, facing each other.

Jonathan Groff’s spe­cial agent Hold­en Ford hauls a cru­ci­fix ahead of a pro­ces­sion filled with griev­ing mem­bers of the African-Amer­i­can com­mu­ni­ty; there’s been a tragedy, and he wants to make good. The pro­duc­tion design team hauls out the big guns for some mar­quee eye can­dy adver­tis­ing notable releas­es of the day. Holden’s fel­low agent Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) bran­dish­es a notepad on which he’s sketched a sig­nif­i­cant insignia of some kind. A mys­te­ri­ous trac­ing con­tains an inscrutable clue.

Anna Torv returns as psy­chol­o­gy expert Wendy Carr, assist­ing the FBI in a pro­file. Two objects leave a dis­turb­ing impres­sion: an out­line of a body in white on a cement floor, and a rope tied around a door­knob for some undoubt­ed­ly nefar­i­ous pur­pose. And of course, Ford and Tench assume the clas­sic pose of inter­ro­ga­tion as they lay out evi­dence before a suspect.

Netflix’s pro­mo­tion also con­tained a trail­er, sure­ly soon to be released, in which a rather famil­iar face makes a brief appearance…

Bearded man in a grey jacket sitting in a dimly lit room.

The sec­ond sea­son of MIND­HUNTER comes to Net­flix world­wide on 16 August.

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