There was no way that Mindhunter could have left us hanging on that tantalising final episode of season one. The Netflix programme had only scratched the surface of serial killer profiling and also alluded to a bloke who was planning, in the middle of, or had just finished a cheeky little murder spree.
Thankfully, Netflix has finally confirmed that a second season will hit the streaming service in October.
We need to talk to more subjects.
But will this next instalment pick up where season one left off? According to director and executive producer David Fincher, not exactly.
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Speaking about the musical score to Billboard, he said: "Next year, we're looking at the Atlanta child murders, so we'll have a lot more African-American music which will be nice. The music will evolve."
Those murders took place between 1979 and 1981, where at least 28 African-American children and adults were slaughtered, with then-23-year-old Wayne Williams convicted for two of the murders and sentenced to two consecutive life sentences.
He has maintained he's innocent ever since he was arrested, and claimed local law enforcement pinned the murders on him to cover up evidence that members of the Klu Klux Klan were involved.
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The case was investigated by FBI profiler John E. Douglas - the real-life inspiration for Holden Ford, played by Jonathan Groff.
Douglas was one of the first criminal profilers and interviewed several of the biggest names in the serial killing business, including John Wayne Gacy, Charles Manson and Ted Bundy.
Academy Award-nominated director Fincher (The Social Network, Fight Club, Se7en) discovered Douglas through reading his book, and it allowed him to pursue a long-held desire to feature criminal profilers in his work.
The news of the second season has definitely delighted fans around the world, who are desperately hungry for some more gripping, incredibly repugnant serial killers. Well... or TV programmes about them, at any rate.
Creator Joe Penhall and Netflix had such belief in the series that the second season was secretly commissioned before the first had even premiered on the streaming service.
The programme has received tons of praise from critics and is currently rating 96 percent on Rotten Tomatoes. The Critical Consensus reads: "Mindhunter distinguishes itself in a crowded genre with ambitiously cinematic visuals and a meticulous attention to character development."
Here's hoping the next piece of the puzzle is as dark, sadistic and creepy as the first.
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