Jeff and Colleen review Mindhunter, Dirty John and Teenage Bounty Hunters TV Show.
Mindhunter
Premise
Mindhunter revolves around FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff) and Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), along with psychologist Wendy Carr (Anna Torv), who operates the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit within the Training Division at the FBI Academy in Quantico, Virginia. They interview imprisoned serial killers to understand how they think, with the hope of applying this knowledge to solve ongoing cases.
Season one is set in 1977 to 1980, in the early days of criminal psychology and criminal profiling at the Federal Bureau of Investigation. Notorious serial killer Edmund Kemper (Cameron Britton) has a recurring role in this season as he assists Ford and Tench in understanding how a serial killer’s mind works.
Cast
Jonathan Groff as Holden Ford, a special agent in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit.
Holt McCallany as Bill Tench, a special agent in the FBI’s Behavioral Science Unit.
Anna Torv as Wendy Carr, a psychology professor working towards tenure at Boston University who joins the BSU. She is a closeted lesbian.
Hannah Gross as Debbie Mitford, Ford’s girlfriend and a graduate student in sociology at the University of Virginia (season 1).
Cotter Smith as Robert Shepard, the assistant director at the FBI Academy overseeing the Behavioral Science Unit (season 1; guest season 2).
Stacey Roca as Nancy Tench, Bill’s wife (season 2; recurring season 1).
Joe Tuttle as Gregg Smith, a special agent newly assigned to the Behavioral Science Unit (season 2; recurring season 1).
Michael Cerveris as Ted Gunn, Shepard’s successor as overseer of the Behavioral Science Unit (season 2).
Lauren Glazier as Kay Manz, a bartender and Carr’s love interest (season 2).
Albert Jones as Jim Barney, an Atlanta FBI agent (season 2; guest season 1)
Sierra McClain as Tanya Clifton, a hotel worker who brings Holden’s attention to the Atlanta child murders (season 2)
June Carryl as Camille Bell, a grieving mother of Yusef Bell, one of the Atlanta murder victims and the organizer of the Committee to Stop Children’s Murders (season 2)
Dirty John
Premise
Season one of Dirty John tells the story of “how a romance with the charismatic John Meehan spiraled into secrets, denial, manipulation, and ultimately, survival – with horrific consequences for an entire family.”
Cast
Connie Britton as Debra Newell, a wealthy, successful interior designer and owner of her own design company Madeira, who is looking for love on various dating websites after four failed marriages
Eric Bana as John Meehan, a con man with a history of deceiving women who is currently posing as an anesthesiologist
Juno Temple as Veronica Newell, Debra’s older daughter
Julia Garner as Terra Newell, Debra’s younger daughter
Teenage Bounty Hunters
Premise
After banging up their father’s truck, high school students and fraternal twins Sterling and Blair Wesley fall into bounty hunting for a grizzled bounty hunter named Bowser Simmons in order to pay for the truck’s damages, and without their parents knowing.
Cast
Maddie Phillips as Sterling Wesley, Blair’s fraternal twin sister and a student at Willingham Academy who is trying to balance her life as a bounty hunter with being fellowship leader at her Christian high school
Anjelica Bette Fellini as Blair Wesley, Sterling’s more rebellious fraternal twin sister who also goes to Willingham Academy and who is also a bounty hunter
Kadeem Hardison as Bowser Simmons, a grizzled bounty hunter, and mentor to Sterling and Blair, who also runs a frozen yogurt shop named Yogurtopia
Virginia Williams as Debbie Wesley, the twins’ mother; and as Dana Culpepper, a fugitive arsonist, and Debbie’s twin sister
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