The Alienist

Synopsis

The new season of Alienist returns us to New York at the turn of the 19th and 20th centuries. Police officer Sarah Howard (Dakota Fanning), psychologist Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), and journalist John Moore (Luke Evans) create their own detective agency, and their first case is to find a Spanish girl.

Interesting Facts

• “Alienist” is what psychologists or psychiatrists were called in the past. This outdated concept reflects a century-old view of mental illness. People believed then that insanity occurred due to an “otherworldly possession” of a healthy person.
• Although the events in The Alienist take place in the United States, the entire TV-series was filmed in Hungary, and Budapest represents New York.
• Initially, The Alienist was supposed to be directed by Cary Fukunaga, but due to him being busy on other projects, he had to leave the director’s chair. However, Fukunaga remained the producer of The Alienist. Meanwhile, the premiere of the new Bond movie, directed by Fukunaga, will take place in November 2020. His next big project is a multi-episode screen adaptation of The Last of the Mohicans for the HBO Max service.
• The new season of The Alienist is based on the book called The Angel of Darkness, the second installment of the novel series The Alienist by Caleb Carr. The events of the next novel in the series unfurl in modern New York and tell us the story of Dr. Jones, a specialist in Kreizler’s work. Now Caleb Carr is working on two novels at once — a direct sequel to The Angel of Darkness and the backstory of Dr. Kreizler. So, if the channel decides to renew the series for the third season, showrunners will have three options on how to continue. By the way, Caleb Carr is the TV-series producer.
• The actor Daniel Brühl will appear later this year in the first episode of the revamped Marvel TV Universe’s TV-series The Falcon and the Winter Soldier. There he will return to his role as the villainous Baron Zemo.
• The TV-series producers have not yet announced a possible continuation of The Alienist.

Information

This is an American-made whodunit TV-series based on the novel series by Caleb Carr.

The premiere of the second season took place on July 19, 2020 on the American channel TNT.

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