Should you watch The Alienist?
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The Alienist
Series · 2018
New York, 1896. Police commissioner Theodore Roosevelt brings together criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler, newspaper illustrator John Moore and secretary Sara Howard to investigate several murders of male prostitutes.
The sides of The Alienist
- New York in 1896
- A psychologist hunting a killer
- Theodore Roosevelt as police commissioner
The Alienist is good for you if…
- you like a killer tracked through the first steps of criminal psychology.
- you like the gaslit streets of 1890s New York.
- you like a dark hunt that tightens episode after episode.
The Alienist is bad for you if…
- you can't stand mutilated bodies on screen.
- you can't watch murders of young boys forced into prostitution.
About: madness · justice · women in a man's world
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