All Forms of Art

I had mixed feelings about  The Alienist . It’s a good one, can’t really deny that, but, for me, it’s also a bit too slow.  The Interest in Mind The first few episodes were somehow boring, and I merely didn’t stop watching because I was too curious about who the killer was. A bit like The Mindhunter , the production team focuses mainly on creating a high level of psychological intensity, but in The Alienist , I felt it lacked something.  I’m a psychologist, I love criminal psychology, and even I found myself bored at some points. They focused mostly on the occult side of the mind, showing the alienist far outside practical reality. Maybe it was like that in the 19th century, but it makes the show too slow, which might tire you.  Slowly Getting Into you After a couple of episodes, I finally started to feel immersed in the 19th-century atmosphere.  As the events unfolded, and the empathy with some of the characters grew, I could finally start fe...

A big scandal and years and years of scheming taken down. Meanwhile, many people suffer while the bad guys try to hang onto their secrets and dreamy lives.  This could be the show's synopsis, but in the end, I think it’d suffice to say this is a showcase of the underlying mechanisms of corruption. Out of Sight, Out of Mind We all know it exists everywhere, all around the world, but watching it like this is both surprising and disgusting. The show is about money, cold hard dollars. Millions of them, actually. Dirty money that involves the government and the top companies in the country, but that is, unfortunately, normal.  Yet, unlike House of Cards , which focuses on political corruption, The Mechanism goes further. It might not make sense for everyone, but what messed with me the most was the example they gave of “small corruption.” It seems like nothing out of the ordinary in the beginning… but it’s everything, everywhere. The corruption is the basis;...