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We need to get to BTK in Season 3. I know they've been priming the pump with this one, but we're ready.

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I guess the problem with BTK is he goes inactive in 1991 think, and doesn't get caught until 2005. There are several killers like Bundy, Gacy, maybe even Ridgeway they should cover before BTK. I got a feeling they are going to continue to use BTK in the background for as long as they can.

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I guess the problem with BTK is he goes inactive in 1991 think, and doesn't get caught until 2005. There are several killers like Bundy, Gacy, maybe even Ridgeway they should cover before BTK. I got a feeling they are going to continue to use BTK in the background for as long as they can.

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hopefully S3 is Dahmer as the timeline would fit

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Ramirez could be next.

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Ramirez and the Satanic panic would be a really good season

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We need to get to BTK in Season 3. I know they've been priming the pump with this one, but we're ready.

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If I had to guess, BTK will again remain the background in season 3. As of this show, most of his killings have been completed. He killed 10 from the 70’s to 91 and then never kills again. In the show, he’s already at I think 7 or 8 victims per his letter he writes when he is angry someone else is taking credit.

BTK doesn’t get caught until mid 2000’s, and he pretty much goes silent up until a few months before he’s caught when he communicates with police again.

I think what Mindhunter is doing with showing him in the background, is presenting him because in a lot of ways he is the antithesis of what they believed a serial killer was. In S2 Holden repeatedly proclaims that serial killers won’t come from normal families, be able to hold down a regular job, and be a functioning member of society. BTK is all of that. The belief in law enforcement was once the BTK killings stopped, he was either dead or arrested for something else - because everything they knew about serial killers said they couldn’t stop killing. Well, BTK did while he raised his children.

Which is where I can see them goin with S3. Focus on another case while having BTK as a side case. All the while, Holden has no interest in pursuing BTK, because with his typical arrogance he is asserting that he has to be dead or in jail or else more bodies would be piling up. All the while, we see BTK in the background raising a family and being a regular member of the community.

I know they can take liberties with the timeline of these things but it would be a huge disservice to the mystique of BTK to ignore the fact that he went silent and not killing for decades. To focus on catching BTK in Season 3 would be doing that, and I can’t see the show going that direction.

I haven't watched Mindhunter, but am certainly intrigued. With spoilers in this thread, I really haven't read much in this thread.

That said, do the seasons go together, or is each season a different serial killer (like True Detective)? If not, should I start with Season 1 or go straight to Season 2?

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should I start with Season 1 or go straight to Season 2?

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Short seasons. Definitely go with 1 first. It's arguably a better season.

Based on the timeline and John E Douglas's actual involvement, I would guess we may see the profile and arrest of Robert Hansen (the Butcher Baker) next season along with a Bundy interview.

Start with S1 as it explains how everything got started. Jumping into S2 without seeing S1 makes no sense. The Kemper interviews along with the Speck interviews make S1 really good but I think S2 was better. The Manson and Tex Watson interviews were fantastic. The way Tex explained everything so calmly was creepier than what Manson said.

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The way Tex explained everything so calmly was creepier than what Manson said.

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Their post-interview discussions where they theorized about Manson attempting to look in control even when he wasn't... that was awesome. I'd heard the theories of them committing the murders to make it appear that Beausoleil was wrongly jailed, but I'd never heard the theory of Manson not being the architect of the plan.

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The personal lives overshadowed the interviews and killers this season. We had the personal stress in Season 1, but Ford's panic attacks causing a shakeup in the actual FBI hierarchy, and Tench's kid having a series within a series, and Wendy's boring attempts at relationships took up way too much time.

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I disagree to some extent, especially with Tench and his kid.

I think the Manson interview alone made the storyline with Tench’s kid worthwhile. Manson talking about how he can’t make anyone do something they don’t want to do gets so under Tench’s skin because, as we know, he is trying to rationalize that his son is an innocent bystander in the involvement of the killing of the boy. That leads to Tench blowing up. I thought it was an incredibly well done scene that is more powerful because of the Tench and his kid storyline.