everything you have heard about this movie is true.

The best films of this genre always show a path and provide a takeaway for being a better person.

Excellent characters with emotional depth. My wife, daughter and granddaughter all enjoyed it...and me, too! Very good movie! You won't be disappointed.

One of the film's great tricks is that, for a time, you think it will go down a rabbit hole of unrealistic glorification.

Apparently this isn't a faithful adaption of the source material, I wouldn't know, but it's definitely a lot better than most tv series you'll encounter around a similar rating as it has on this day of writing (7.8).The Alienist is well made. Everything about the production is top of the line, the acting suffices, it's sometimes even good. It just suffers from minor issues in the writing, especially in the motivation of some of the characters, or the plausibility of how they end up at certain positions or locations but other than that, this is definitely worth a watch if you can get past the books.

This first episode has the same grim humorlessness that turned me off of True Detective. It's very focused on atmosphere but not so focused on character, at least to start. Even Teddy Roosevelt just comes across as part of a generic group of serious men being serious about a serious thing.To be fair, I'm also not big on serial killer stuff. I almost *never* like series and movies about serial killers. I know some people find them fascinating, but for me to be interested I need Silence-of-the-Lambs quality level. And this is nowhere near that.

Started off very promising and I was intrigued enough to keep watching, however after about the 3rd/4th episode it started to bore me but I continued out of loyalty and it picked back up towards the end. So I'm my opinion it's worth watching if you've got the patience for it.

I found it amazing series great story and acting, one thing was annoying there was lots of shots that were not suitable for a TV show... using shallow depth of field lenses makes concentrating on actors very difficult and produce headache over long sessions. Switching focus 10 times in 5 minuets is good for artistic video clip but definitely not a series. It was so annoying and hard to focus.