Thoughts on Mindhunter Series
I recently just finished watching the Mindhunter serious on Netflix. This was highly fictonalized and I thought it didn't give John Douglas his due. (His name was Holden Ford in the show). They portrayed he and Robert Ressler's (his name was Bill Tench in the show) association very antagonistically and not a profiling partnership. They didn't really focus on Douglas' profiling vision.
Tench was portrayed as a traditional cop type who constantly diminished Ford's (Douglas') efforts but who thought nothing of taking credit for his interview successes without mentioning him. Douglas (Ford) always had his tactics questioned. They didn't need to fictionalize the story so much to make it "more interesting. " Just tell the story as it happened. The Ann Burgess character (Wendy Carr in the show) in real life didn't relocate to Quantico and was married with 4 kids. Bill Tench (Robert Ressler) in real life didn't adopt any children and had 3 of his own and was happily married. Why change that to make the show more "interesting?" Another thing that bothered me was how they kept flashing the BTK (Dennis Rader) scenes in Kansas but no follow up. Anyone who didn't know about or read the the book about BTK had no idea what the scenes meant. They ended the series with a scene of BTK. This left you wanting for a third season which isn't happening.
I did like the production of the show. It reminded me of The Zodiac film in that it was a period piece of which I'm a big fan.