TNT’s period crime drama has thankfully deviated from the source material. Although it had been a week since “The Alienist” had shown a quick peek of its mysterious killer’s face, Monday’s episode ...

TNT’s problematic adaptation of Caleb Carr’s novel makes it difficult to root for the good guys when they can’t help themselves. The killer of young boys on “The Alienist” is still at large because it ...

TNT's The Alienist tells the story of Daniel Brühl's Laszlo Kreizler, a psychologist who's investigating a never-before-seen ritualistic killer murdering children in New York. Across the ten episodes, ...

I’ve been debating if I could use the headline, “Old-Timey Mindhunter Is Fun, Y’all!” for this review. The problem is The Alienist, TNT’s lavish (and long-awaited) adaptation of Caleb Carl’s ’90s ...

The killer of young boys on “The Alienist” is still at large because it turns out that even the police were wrong about his identity. It seemed that privileged pedophile Willem Van Bergen (Josef Altin ...

The Alienist, TNT’s limited series about the search for a serial killer, is set in 19th century New York. But Dakota Fanning, who plays police department employee Sara Howard, says women back then ...

Caleb Carr's best-seller finally makes it to the screen in a TNT adaptation full of solid performances and gorgeous, creepy visuals. By Daniel Fienberg When Caleb Carr’s The Alienist became a ...

This is a spoiler-free review of The Alienist episode 1: "The Boy on the Bridge." The Alienist has been a long time coming -- maybe that's why it feels so dated. Based on the Caleb Carr bestseller ...

Spoiler warning for those not caught up through “Hildebrandt’s Starling." In “Hildebrandt’s Starling,” which marks the halfway point of TNT’s gorgeously gothic limited series The Alienist, Dr. Laszlo ...

Nearly a century before the real-life FBI Behavioral Science agents who inspired Mindhunter were interviewing their 1970s serial killers, late 19th century psychologists were grappling with their own ...