Mindhunter season 3 could have sent the team to Hollywood

Despite their recent subscriber losses, Netflix is still home to a lot of amazing movies and TV shows. One of my absolute favourites is Mindhunter, David Fincher’s psychological thriller series about the founding of the Behavioral Science Unit in the Federal Bureau of Investigation and the rise of criminal profiling. Although Mindhunter hasn’t actually been cancelled, season 3 has been placed on “indefinite hiatus” and Fincher doesn’t think it will be back.

While speaking with Collider, director Andrew Dominik spilled a few details on what Mindhunter season 3 could have been. It seems that the season would have found Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and perhaps even Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) heading to Tinseltown to chat with a few big-name directors.

What they were going to do with Season 3 was they were going to go [to] Hollywood. So one of them was going to be hooking up with Jonathan Demme and the other one was going to be hooking up with Michael Mann. And it was all going to be about profiling making it into the sort of zeitgeist, the public consciousness. It would’ve been… That was the season everyone was really waiting for to do, with when they sort of get out of the basement and start.

Andrew Dominik directed several episodes of Mindhunter season 2, including the Charles Manson episode that featured Damon Herriman as the imprisoned cult leader. While myself and many others hold out hope that Mindhunter might continue down the road, David Fincher has said that while the series has a “very passionate audience,” it was an expensive show that wasn’t one of Netflix’s top performers. Fincher also said that he needed some time away. “We had all hands on deck to finish season two and we didn’t have a ton of scripts and a ton of outlines and a bible standing by for season three,” Fincher said. “I’ll admit I was a little bit like ‘I don’t know that I’m ready to spend another two years in the crawl space.“