A strong first season features three unlikely characters each with their own gift and each with their own burden coming together to solve a rather gory series of crimes. Set in period it features an alienist whose profession is a new field and the challenges faced by the new field in the conventional society of the time, solid production, good costumes and a rather dark atmosphere to it. Not sure why season two lost everything season 1 built but two of its main characters where pushed into the background and lost in romance loosing everything g that made them who they are and leaving the viewer with a rather poor detective, Sara Howard solving a banal crime armed only with her pistol, Google eyes, bland stare and deadpan whisper, becoming a tedious and tiresome character by the end of episode two. At minimum shouldn't have been called The Alienist, it's a a lie, a lie i say...
Thank you Libby...... You are brilliant.
I probably won't bother looking out for season 3.
I probably won't bother looking out for season 3.