Mindhunter Season 3's Cancelled Story Revealed

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Mindhunter episode director Andrew Dominik reveals apparently-scrapped plans for season 3. Acclaimed filmmaker David Fincher unleashed Mindhunter season 1 on Netflix in 2017. The brooding and meticulously-detailed show about the birth of FBI profiling soon proved a hit with critics and audiences, leading to the arrival of season 2 in 2019.

Of course the FBI profilers at the center of Mindhunter, as fascinatingly-sketched as they may be, are not the show’s true main attraction. The real appeal of Netflix’s series instead is in its depictions of the various real-life serial killers whose prison interviews form the basis of the profilers' research. Over two seasons, Mindhunter chillingly brought to life such notorious figures as Charles Manson, David Berkowitz, Wayne Williams, Edward Kemper and Richard Speck. The show also delved into the crimes of «BTK Killer» Dennis Rader, presumably setting up a future season focused on the FBI’s efforts to nab the notorious murderer. Unfortunately Mindhunter season 3 looks like a very long-shot to ever happen, given Fincher’s reveal that the show was put on indefinite hold due to budgetary issues.

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Now fans are finally getting some indication of what territory Mindhunter season 3 would have covered had it ever come to fruition. And it seems the show was about to take a very interesting turn indeed. Speaking to Collider, episode director Dominik said that a third season of Mindhunter would have seen the show’s FBI profilers taking the next logical step in their story by sharing their knowledge with some famous Hollywood filmmakers:

«What they were going to do with Season 3 was they were going to go [to] Hollywood. So one of them