After almost a two year wait, Netflix’s serial killer drama Mindhunter is back with a second season of scares.
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In season 2, Jonathan Groff and Holt McCallany play FBI agents in the Behavioral Science Unit who interview notorious serial killers in order to solve open cases.
The new storyline follows the Atlanta child murders, a series of killings where 28 African-American children, teenagers, and adults were murdered between 1979 and 1981.
Real life serial killers Charles Manson and Son of Sam appear in the season as they are interviewed by the FBI agents to help them get to the bottom of the killings.
Netflix has shared a bunch of first look images to give us a creepy taste of what’s to come.
Series creator David Fincher previously teased that one of the big differences between the first and second season is that the new episodes take place at a time when serial killers were becoming the topics of everyday conversations.
“In the 70s, post-Manson, post-Son of Sam, post-Zodiac, there really was, I don’t think you can say it was an epidemic, but there was definitely the feeling this has gotten away from us,” Fincher said of season 2’s vibe.
“There was this transition. I remember it happening with Son of Sam. When I left the Bay Area in the mid 1970s and our parents moved to Oregon, you go 300 miles north and nobody talked about Zodiac. It had been this festering thing that had never been brought to any kind of closure but no one cared about it [outside of the Bay Area]. Then Son of Sam came, and it was Newsweek and Time, the cover.”
The new season is expected to be released on Netflix in the States next month and will presumably drop on Aussie Netflix shortly after.
