After years of waiting and rumours, it has been confirmed that there will not be another season of Mindhunter. The show’s creator and director, David Fincher, told everyone about the bad news.
Mindhunter’s first season came out on Netflix in 2017, and its second season came out in 2019. After that, Netflix said that the show was “on hold” because Fincher was working on other projects. The director hasn’t said anything else about why the show was cancelled, though. Find out by reading on.
Fincher talked about the fate of his critically acclaimed show in a recent interview with a French magazine. He said that Netflix was not happy with the number of viewers, considering how much money went into it, so they decided to cancel the series.
“The first two seasons have been great. But it’s a very expensive show, and in Netflix’s eyes, we didn’t get enough viewers to make it worth the money. I don’t blame them because they took risks to get the show started and gave me the tools to make Mank the way I wanted to make it,” Fincher said.
“They gave me the freedom to try new things with The Killer. It’s a blessing to work with people who aren’t afraid to take risks. When we don’t want the same things, we have to be honest and break up,” he said.
Since the show was never officially cancelled, fans had been waiting for it to come back for over three years. Netflix said the project was on “indefinite hold,” but Fincher said he would be interested in coming back to the show in the future.
“David is focused on directing his first Netflix movie, Mank, and making the second season of Love, Death, and Robots. He might come back to Mindhunter again in the future, but he didn’t want to keep the actors from getting other jobs while he worked on his own projects, a Netflix representative said in a statement in 2020.
At the time, Fincher said, “I’d love to go back to it at some point. The goal was to get to the late 1990s and early 2000s, when people might be knocking on Dennis Rader’s door.
Mindhunter followed FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) as they interviewed serial killers in prison as part of a research project. They wanted to learn about the killers’ minds so they could use this information to solve current and future murder cases.
Cameron Britton played Edmund Kemper, Sam Strike played Montie Rissell, Happy Anderson played Jerry Brudos, and Jack Erdie played Richard Speck. All of these serial killers were famous in the late 1970s. Mindhunter is one of the best psychological thriller shows because it has a 96% rating on Rotten Tomatoes.