Great Trailer For TNT's Original 1886 Procedural Series THE ALIENIST with Luke Evans, Daniel Brühl, and Dakota Fanning
The Alienist is an upcoming procedural series that stars Daniel Brühl, Luke Evans, and Dakota Fanning who work together as early criminal profilers in 1896, and try to get into the mind of one of New York City’s first serial killers before they hunt him down.
The Alienist is based on the novel by Caleb Carr and created for TV by Cary Fukunaga — which explains the somber cinematic tone.
You might recognize Brühl from all his years of playing Nazis and superhero villains. It looks like Brühl has finally landed a role as a gifted criminal profiler.
“Instead of looking to cure a disease of the body, I look to help those who are suffering from illness of the mind,” Daniel Brühl’s Dr. Laszlo Kreizler says in the opening shots of the Alienist trailer. “Sometimes, society looks upon people as crazy. It may only mean that they are alienated from their own true natures.”
The Alienist is an early term for a criminal psychologist. But Dr. Kreizler can’t do the job on his own — he’s soon joined by newspaper illustrator John Moore (Evans) and aspiring police detective Sarah Howard (Fanning), as they form a unit to combine Kreizler’s psychology techniques with old-fashioned detective work.
The series is set during the Gilded Age, in which crime and butchered medical practices ran rampant.
The Alienist opens with a series of gruesome murders of boy prostitutes that grip New York City. The police call upon criminal psychologist Dr. Laszlo Kreizler (Brühl) and newspaper illustrator John Moore (Evans) to conduct the investigation in secret. They are joined by Sara Howard (Fanning), a headstrong secretary determined to become the city’s first female police detective.
The Alienist priemieres on TNT on January 22, 2018.