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in PremieresProdigal Son: A Psychological Crime Thriller with Potential
The premise of Prodigal Son, Fox’s new psychological crime drama, isn’t going to blow you away with originality. However—aside from the fact that I’m a sucker for a show that examines what causes people to do the things they do—I found the opening episode of the series to be engaging, witty, and complex enough to […] More
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in Series
We Can be Angels (Just for One Day)? — On Part 2 of The OA and Possible Worlds
Long before the Many Worlds hypothesis sprung up in response to quantum mechanics, Gottfried Leibniz imagined God choosing between an infinite number of possible worlds. After all, every choice at every moment represents a point of possible bifurcation. So there’s a possible world where I did not just decide to start writing this essay; one […] More
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in Seasons
Mindhunter Season 1: Where to Go When Motive Becomes Elusive
In the classic psychological thriller film Silence of the Lambs, FBI trainee Clarice Starling works (along with Hannibal Lecter) to build a profile of serial killer Buffalo Bill, who skins his female victims. Sterling is able to piece together assumptions about the killer: it’s a white male, in his 30s or 40s, not a drifter, […] More
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The Awakening of a Mystery: True Detective, Revisited (Part 2)
The Awakening of a Mystery Part 2: The Psychopathology of True Detective The etymology of the word psychopathology is quite illuminating: Psyche, meaning mind or soul; Pathos, meaning suffer or grief; Logos, meaning discourse, word, or logic. Rather than imagining “psychopathology” as a dry, clinical term, we can define it as the speech of the […] More
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in Series
The Awakening of a Mystery: True Detective, Revisited (Part 1)
The Awakening of a Mystery There are countless ways to tell a story, but a good detective story usually begins with a dead body. That’s not actually where the story begins, but it is when we-the-viewer often enter the narrative. As the story progresses, we follow living characters as they retrace the past, until […] More
