: Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford, Holt McCallany as Bill Tench, and Anna Torv as Wendy Carr.

The Netflix series follows the founding of the FBI's Behavioral Science Unit (BSU) in the late 1970s and early 1980s. Based on the 1995 non-fiction book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI's Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker, the show chronicles the origins of modern criminal profiling. Series Overview

: The series ran for two seasons (19 episodes total) before being placed on indefinite hold in 2020. In 2023, Fincher confirmed the series had definitively ended. Season 1 Highlights (1977–1980)