The Alienist (TNT series, based on the Caleb Carr novel, exec produced Cary Fukunaga)

Here's the trailer:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JcJQnaXiCfI

Per Variety:

Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, Dakota Fanning and Brian Geraghty star in the series.

I am a massive fan of the original novel, which was one of those deeply unsettling reads that I couldn't put down. (Never did get around to the sequel though I should have, and apparently there are two new books due soon.) The book was a prime mixture of melodrama, atmosphere and some extremely vicious social critique that it took me years and more reflection to really come to grips with. It's been some years since I reread it and I would like to see how much of the crossgender/identity/age elements hold up, though.

Had always wanted to see it filmed and given how TV works these days, this is probably the best option, though some of the most utterly horrific points in the book probably won't make it.

I should re-read this to see if I'm mis-remembering how much I liked it. Because I tried to read his latest book, Surrender, New York, and had to stop about a third of the way through. It was just god-awful, with a nothingburger of a plot, and dialogue that sounded like it was written by one of those neural networks we make fun of on other threads. (Not to mention basically being a thinly-veiled polemic: "I, Caleb Carr, am soooooo much smarter than you fancy-pants 'forensic scientists' with your DNA and your 'evidence.'")

Yeah, that's the thing. I am REALLY wondering if twenty-years-back me was caught up more in the trappings too much, or missed more covert messages.

Had missed there was a new trailer a couple of weeks back. I sure as hell hope this is good.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hgeknkliUJc

So it's started as of this past Monday and the first episode can be streamed

http://www.tntdrama.com/shows/the-alienist/season-1/episode-1/the-boy-on-the-bridge

Tentative yes so far. Showed a lot (if not all) of the results of the truly brutal murder that starts the book so that sets a tone at least. There's moments throughout that feel cinematically obvious or overdone, and it's interesting thinking in my head about how an adaptation would have worked and been filmed twenty years ago versus how it's done now, but the actors themselves seem to be acquitting themselves well enough, some clunky lines aside. Might work more as a mood piece in the end.

I was pretty bummed out by their young Teddy Roosevelt casting. Dakota Fanning is A+ and i love Daniel Brühl in all things always

Cinematography is v good, nice atmospherics etc

Yeah Teddy needed an actor who was a little stockier I think — he did have a higher voice in real life though so that worked well enough.

but he was so low-energy!
I mean, i wasnt looking for Robin Williams pantomime Teddy but he was a lively character in the book

Now that’s true!

i love Luke Evans. i think it's terrible that he's married because he should be married to me.

oh he's not married but his bf looks like such a tit so my point holds.

shite

dont ever talk to me again

it was pretty bad

u_u

i was a huge fan of the novel, and I felt all the performances & production/ cinematography were excellent. the period-detail was so good!
idk what show you all watched

performances were fine, casting was good actually

looked great obv

you could hear the clunks when the writers moved

writing and plotting are, on the whole, terrible now.

period detail, dropping in real ppl as ancillary characters, entire paragraphs of authentic history tripping for a barman's lips, all of that cheap matthew pearl crap that tries to cover over the fact that they havent even tried to avoid (character and plot)-by-numbers

"Dropping in real ppl" happens in the source novel. In fact it happens on an even larger scale than the tv series. Thought this was a good adaptation.

well its was a coverall criticism of precisely that fandom novelling cf m pearl

Im privy to the finale of season two for my sins and man fuck well funded fanfiction

:(

i dropped out of s2 early and havent circled back.

Thing is i like everyone in it, theyre fine, it looks great

Script ppl, as always, should be dragged out and shot

agree