Over a year on since the second season of Netflix’s “Mindhunter” has been released and its creator and director David Fincher indicates its now unlikely to return.
Fincher is out doing early promotion for “Mank,” his first feature directorial effort since 2014’s “Gone Girl”. Fincher has spent much of the past decade or so involved in television, serving as executive producer on Netflix’s “House of Cards,” “Love Death and Robots” and “Mindhunter”.
The latter is seen as very much his baby, Fincher having helmed seven episodes of the show’s nineteen episode run across two seasons. After the second season aired, the show was put on “indefinite hold” which has left many wondering if there were any plans for more.
With Fincher’s “Mank” complete and awaiting release shortly, now would seem to be a great time to get back to work on it. However, Fincher tells Vulture that he isn’t so sure that he and the team will be back due to the cost and time involved:
“We lived there for almost three years. Not year in and year out, but … probably six or seven months a year. Mindhunter was a lot for me. It’s a 90-hour workweek. It absorbs everything in your life. When I got done, I was pretty exhausted, and I said, ‘I don’t know if I have it in me right now to break season three.’
For the viewership that it had, it was a very expensive show. We talked about, ‘Finish Mank and then see how you feel,’ but I honestly don’t think we’re going to be able to do it for less than I did season two. And on some level, you have to be realistic – dollars have to equal eyeballs.”
So it sounds like, despite the rave reviews from critics, not enough people were actually watching the series to justify the cost of another season. For now it seems the show is over.
