Psycho Killer, qu’est-ce que c’est?
In a recent interview about , actor Hannah Gross noted that, “If [executive producer David Fincher] wasn’t there, he was very involved in what the episode would be like, and of course the overall tone, what it would look like. The other directors came in and used the container he made.” Holt McCallany, who plays FBI behavioural science expert Bill Tench opposite Jonathan Groff’s hostage-negotiator-turned-psycho-whisperer Holden Ford, also commented that when the production began there was a five-season “bible” mapping out trajectories for all the principal characters and narrative threads, which ultimately became completely irrelevant because Fincher almost entirely reworked the show’s format and structure. As the showrunner era of prestige TV now compels us to examine an entire season’s worth of Netflix episodes as the singular work of a singular creator—however much the televisual format itself mitigates against such auteurist notions—perhaps can be seen as a work where the auteur was not an author so much as an architect, designing a blueprint for skilled craftsmen to follow and, in moments of paramount importance,
