BootDigest Such a frustrating disappointment

Beanbioca As Good As It Gets

ShangLuda Admirable film.

Dynamixor The performances transcend the film's tropes, grounding it in characters that feel more complete than this subgenre often produces.

Charles Herold (cherold) This first episode has the same grim humorlessness that turned me off of True Detective. It's very focused on atmosphere but not so focused on character, at least to start. Even Teddy Roosevelt just comes across as part of a generic group of serious men being serious about a serious thing.To be fair, I'm also not big on serial killer stuff. I almost *never* like series and movies about serial killers. I know some people find them fascinating, but for me to be interested I need Silence-of-the-Lambs quality level. And this is nowhere near that.

rhiannon-71899 Started off very promising and I was intrigued enough to keep watching, however after about the 3rd/4th episode it started to bore me but I continued out of loyalty and it picked back up towards the end. So I'm my opinion it's worth watching if you've got the patience for it.

huntergerald-34771 I was truly looking forward to this, as Caleb Carr's book was fantastic. I found myself so disappointed that I stop watching after five episodes. Daniel Bruhl is all wrong as the alienist, and it's absolutely aggravating to try to hear anything he says, as he consistently speaks at a mere whisper. The wonderful detail Carr used in his tome is totally missing here, and some of the main characters are only shells of who they were in the book. On a lonely, bright note, Dakota Fanning is marvelous, her every nuance perfection personified. This should have been made into a full length feature film, and not a multi-segmented television program. A huge disappointment to fans of Carr's work.

scoman1 Good writing and acting. The time period is the perfect backdrop. It is dark and grity but considering the topic it needs to be.