10 Best TV Episodes Of 2019

10. Episode 5 - Mindhunter

A lot like Better Call Saul, Netflix's Mindhunter has never been concerned with being the loudest show, and after an extended break off air it returned for a second season with the same calculated precision that made the first so enjoyable.

It was a toss up between the finale of the latest set of episodes and the fifth instalment, but the latter just won out because of one standout sequence. Coming slap bang in the middle of a tumultuous year-long story, with Bill's foster son suffering through the trauma of seeing other kids murder a child, the FBI's serial killer unit is offered time with the interview subject they've been dreaming of getting: Charles Manson.

It couldn't come at a worse time though, and the character drama spills out during the course of an incredibly volatile back and forth, perfectly captured by director Andrew Dominik.

The sequence is why Mindhunter is so special compared to other shows like it, mining more tension, drama and intrigue from a single conversation than some get out of an extended gunfight.