8 TV Shows That Aren't About What You Think

Mindhunter is one of Netflix's best original shows. Created by Joe Penhall, with a large amount of input from David Fintcher, the series follows the real story of FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) as they create the modern profile for serial killers. The show contains many fictional portrayals of real life serial killers such as Edmund Kemper and Dennis Rader (BTK).

The show rightfully has achieved critical praise for its acting, direction, writing, and fantastic sense of period and atmosphere. On top of this, the show also deals with a series of complex themes with a sense of confidence that relatively new shows never do.

One of these themes gets to the crux of what the show is really about, and it isn't serial killers. While the show may concern itself with depraved killers, often times, it actually deals with the mental states of its protagonists far more.

Ford is shown to increasingly lack a sense of empathy and remorse for the victims of the killers, all while actively trying to befriend Kemper in season one. His character depicts exactly what the show is about: being a sociopath. Many of the killers the team investigate are sociopaths, but the series makes it clear that Ford is also holds many of the traits that they see opposing them in the interviews.

Wendy even points out at one point 'how could a president not be a sociopath?'. Her point is clear: many of us have the tendencies of the killers, and under different circumstances, we could become one too.