Back in 2017, Netflix dropped the first season of a show called Mindhunter, centered around the FBI agents and psychologists who developed the serial killer profiling that is still used today. It’s based on the book Mindhunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit by John E. Douglas and Mark Olshaker and is lauded as one of the best shows on Netflix, with a 97% score on the Tomatometer and a 95% on the Popcornmeter. Boasting a stacked cast featuring Anna Torv, Holt McCallany, and Jonathan Groff, it pulls no punches and remains intense from the start of season 1 to the finale of season 2, leaving audiences desperate for more. Notorious at this point for cancelling wildly popular shows (Santa Clarita Diet, I will always miss you), Netflix pulled the plug on Mindhunter after two seasons, leaving audiences scrambling for anything that might fill the serial-killer-shaped hole left in their hearts.
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While we (im)patiently hold on to the tiny, fraction-of-a-possibility of that third Mindhunter season, Netflix’s new show, Monster: The Ed Gein Story, starring Charlie Hunnam as the titular Ed Gein, has teased the crossover we never even thought to imagine, bringing the two together in a seamless way in the final episode as we catch a glimpse of the notorious yellow VW bug that became so well known due to it’s owner—Ted Bundy.
How Exactly Does This Tie Into Mindhunter?
While Ed Gein was caught and arrested in 1957, way before the FBI had even cooked up their Behavioral Science Unit as a way to potentially catch serial killers, Monster depicts the FBI as going to Gein for help gaining insight into the mind of, you guessed it, a monster. Gein was never actually interviewed by the FBI, but his crimes were later studied when the eventual Behavioral Science Unit was formed.
In the final episode of the show, we see FBI agents John Douglas and Robert Ressler, played here by Sean Carrigan and Caleb Ruminer, alongside Ann Burgess (Megan Ketch), as they interview Jerry Brudos, the serial killer who was eventually known as the “Shoe Fetish Slayer.” And if you were glued to your screen when Mindhunter dropped, you would recognize these names as those that Bill Tench, Holden Ford, and Wendy Carr were based on. And what’s even better? Happy Anderson reprised his role as Jerry Brudos, giving fans a fun, but easy-to-miss, Easter egg.
Don’t lose hope for a possible third season of Mindhunter just yet, though. Talking with CBR in June, Holt McCannally, who played FBI agent Bill Tench, gave fans everywhere a possible light at the end of the tunnel, saying, “So, look, you know, I had a meeting with David Fincher in his office a few months ago, and he said to me that there is a chance that it may come back as three two-hour movies, but I think it’s just a chance…I know there are writers that are working, but you know, David has to be happy with scripts.”
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