Dakota Fanning, Luke Evans, Daniel Bruhl… “The Alienist” was supposed to be Netflix’s answer to the undiminished popularity of crime dramas. The costume, dark series, set in the rotten Gilded Age in New York, combined the world’s love for Jack the Ripper, Sherlock Holmes, “Mindhunter” and “Hannibal” in one. It has been available on the platform since 2018, and even got a second season. All of that was for nothing – “The Alienist” was not only removed from future plans. It will also lose its place on the streaming service.
“The Alienist” disappears from Netflix
The “Original Series” tag won’t help, nor will the series’ pretty good rating. “The Alienist” will disappear from Netflix almost everywhere in the world at the beginning of August. The exception will be the United States. Netflix’s decision, although it doesn’t seem entirely logical (why create an original series if you’re going to cancel it later?), has a second meaning.
“The Alienist,” which will disappear on August 9, is not a Netflix original series in the same way that “Stranger Things” is. It was originally produced for TNT, from which Netflix licensed it (as is the case with “Snowpiercer”). Due to convoluted licensing agreements and expiration dates, “The Alienist” will leave the service in less than a month — and that’s regardless of the fact that the production was advertised as a “Netflix original.”
The series about an alien psychologist (Daniel Bruhl) who, with the help of a young detective (Dakota Fanning) and an illustrator (Luke Evans), tries to solve the brutal murders of boys in New York, has gained quite good reviews. There were complaints about the pace of storytelling, but the dark atmosphere of the United States at the time and the trailblazing of a fledgling psychologist and a young woman fighting for her right to herself had a lot of charm. In 2020, it even got a second season, the ending of which also suggested the end of the whole story. A potential third season of the show could theoretically focus on the third part of Caleb Carr’s book, the first two volumes of which were adapted into films. Unfortunately, the sequel will not be available on Netflix.
Source: Gazeta
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