The Alienist is a psychological thriller based on Caleb Carr’s 1994 novel of the same name. The story is set in the late 1890s, during the Victorian era. The first ten-episode season, which premiered ...

2017 gave us several TV series that focused on the evolving methods behind capturing notorious criminals. In Discovery’s Manhunt: Unabomber, we learned about forensic linguistics, developed by the FBI ...

Spoiler warning for The Alienist finale. Before talking about a second season, let's get this out of the way: Yes, The Alienist was billed as a limited series, but almost every high-profile, expensive ...

The killer of young boys on “The Alienist” is still at large because it turns out that even the police were wrong about his identity. It seemed that privileged pedophile Willem Van Bergen (Josef Altin ...

Our patience is about to pay off, with Sara Howard (Dakota Fanning), Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Daniel Brühl), and John Moore (Luke Evans) reunited and looking to put an end to another nightmare when TNT's ...

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I’ve been debating if I could use the headline, “Old-Timey Mindhunter Is Fun, Y’all!” for this review. The problem is The Alienist, TNT’s lavish (and long-awaited) adaptation of Caleb Carl’s ’90s ...

Reporting from New York — Just how long has it taken Hollywood to adapt “The Alienist,” Caleb Carr’s bestselling novel about a serial killer on the loose in Gilded Age New York? Here’s some ...

“The Alienist” is coming back with a sequel series and TNT’s new trailer promises plenty of high-stakes action for fans of the network’s period drama. The series is titled “The Alienist: The Angel of ...