First Look: Manson & Son of Sam in Mindhunter season 2

July 19th 2019, 9:25am

Last Updated on August 5, 2021

Netflix and David Fincher's amazing serial killer series MINDHUNTER will hit the streaming giant next month. And today we have your first look at Damon Herriman as Charles Manson and David Berkowitz AKA Son of Sam. Check them out above and below and then let us know what you think!

Season 2 plot details have been skim, but that said, we do know that Damon Herriman (who oddly enough plays Manson in Quentin Tarantino’s ONCE UPON A TIME IN HOLLYWOOD) will be playing Charles Manson this season. And Fincher did confirm the new season will feature The Atlanta Child Murders, a series of killings that left 28 African-American children, teenagers, and adults killed between 1979-1981.

The first season followed this synopsis:

Catching a criminal often requires the authorities to get inside the villain's mind to figure out how he thinks. That's the job of FBI agents Holden Ford and Bill Tench. They attempt to understand and catch serial killers by studying their damaged psyches. Along the way, the agents pioneer the development of modern serial-killer profiling. The crime drama has a strong pedigree behind the camera, with Oscar-nominated director David Fincher and Oscar-winning actress Charlize Theron among the show's executive producers.

Berkowitz and Manson were already in jail by 1977, so it makes sense that our lead detectives will be interviewing the killers as they try to solve the Atlanta child murders case. As for the episode count, Season 2 would consist of eight episodes with Fincher directing the premiere and finale. Andrew Dominik and Carl Franklin helming the other episodes. MINDHUNTER SEASON 2 hits Netflix on August 16, 2019.