Mindhunter

Based on the book of the same title and co-produced by David Fincher and Charlize Theron, MINDHUNTER is a crime series set in 1979 about two FBI agents trying to broaden criminal science by understanding the psychology behind human behavior. Special Agent Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) is a young, somewhat sensitive hostage negotiator and training instructor who is convinced that the FBI needs to spend more time understanding why people commit violent crimes the way they do. After learning more from a sociology post-grad (played by Hannah Gross), he convinces the unit chief of the FBI National Training Academy (Cotter Smith) to send him back to school to study criminal psychology. He's recruited by Bill Tech (Holt McCallany), a special agent in the FBI's Behavior Science Unit, but despite their best efforts, they simply don't have enough knowledge to truly understand what motivates violent crime. They begin interviewing serial killers behind bars to learn more about how they think, and use what they learn to resolve open cases. Helping them with the process is Dr. Wendy Carr (Anna Torv).