'The Alienist': TV Review
When Caleb Carr's The Alienist became a best-seller in 1994, the idea of a 10-episode miniseries that could deliver prestige and also handle the book's layers of world-building and adult subject matter was basically inconceivable. So Hollywood spent a decade trying and failing to condense the plotty tome into a movie with a parade of A-list directors attached (including Curtis Hanson and Philip Kaufman).
Even once The Alienist found its proper approach on TV, there were another 10 years of loosely associated networks and showrunners and directors.
The result is that the version of The Alienist premiering on TNT on...
Even once The Alienist found its proper approach on TV, there were another 10 years of loosely associated networks and showrunners and directors.
The result is that the version of The Alienist premiering on TNT on...
- 1/15/2018
- by Daniel Fienberg
- The Hollywood Reporter - TV News
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