Although hope is never lost —in these times we cannot say outright that something will not return—, the truth is that today (and confirmed by Fincher himself) ‘Mindhunter’ will stay in the two seasons already seen on Netflix. However, that does not mean that what we were going to find in a hypothetical season 3 had not been outlined.
“It was the season we all expected to do”, says Andrew Dominik, one of the directors of season 2 from the series in a recent interview with Collider promoting his documentary about Nick Cave and Warren Ellis.
Talking with Jonathan Demme and Michael Mann
Asked about what plans there were for the hypothetical new season of ‘Mindhunter’, the director assures that the time had come for this FBI department to go out once and for all to the field. Well, rather to the big city and with some mythical film directors swarming:
“What we were going to do in season 3 is we were going to go to Hollywood. So one of them was going to meet Jonathan Demme and the other Michael Mann. And it was all going to be about profiling in the spirit of the times, in the public consciousness. It would have been… it was the season that everyone was really looking forward to doing, with them coming out of the basement and starting.”
Thus, according to Dominik, we could have seen Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany) and Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) work in the field and perhaps use your research and methodology to try to solve a crime in sunny California.
In that time and region, moreover, assassins like Richard Ramírez were activeaka “Night Stalker” (with documentary on Netflix) or Joseph James DeAngeloalso known as “The Golden State Killer” (which has a great documentary on HBO Max).