Mindhunter fans have resurrected a petition for a third season of the popular Netflix series, with over 10,000 signatures already.
The hit true crime series featured FBI agents Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), Bill Tench (Holt McCallany), and Wendy Carr (Anna Torv) as they used their criminal profiling talents to assist solve some of the most serious crimes in the United States.
The series, which launched in 2019, is set in the 1970’s and 1980’s, with season two continuing an investigation into the Atlanta killings.
Parts of the events in the episode are based on John E.Douglas and Mark Olshaker’s true crime book of the same name, which was published in 1995.
But, CEO David Fincher said two years ago that there will be no season three of the serial killer drama.
He said to Vulture at the time: ‘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”.’
He added: ‘Listen, 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.’
Several rumours regarding a second season have circulated since then, but Fincher confirmed the show’s cancellation in a new interview.
‘I’m very proud of the first two seasons,’ he told the French newspaper Le Journal du Dimanche.
‘But it’s a particularly expensive show and, in the eyes of Netflix, we haven’t attracted a large enough audience to justify such and investment.
‘I don’t blame them, they took risks to launch the series.’
However, Fincher’s comments have sparked some uproar with a Change.org petition calling for a new instalment.
Speaking on behalf of ‘Mindhunter Netflix Fans Worldwide’, petition creator Dawn Bruner wrote: ‘Many of us waited patiently and anticipated excitedly for Season 2 to drop, and when it finally arrived we were elated.
‘We have watched, rewatched, and binge-watched, as well, we have dedicated hours to discussing our favourite scenes and characters, marvelling at your brilliance, your attention to the minute details, appreciating the little quirks, nuances, and peculiarities,’ they added.
The petition continues: ‘So we are understandably disappointed and upset at the decision to put Season 3 off indefinitely while Mr. David Fincher works on other projects. We understand, you value those projects, and we feel the same about our Mindhunter.
‘Please believe, even if the numbers didn’t add up in Season 2 as they did for the first Season, we are still out here waiting faithfully and clamoring for more.
‘So we respectfully ask you to please reconsider your priorities and make the time to film Season 3, soon, and if that isn’t a possibility and/or cannot be arranged, then please consider another director for Season 3.’
At the time of writing, the petition had almost 8,500 signatures, with recent comments like, ‘Don’t leave us waiting – please complete Mindhunter’.
‘This seriously was the best show ever!! Please bring it back!’ another fan pleaded, while someone else wrote: ‘Mindhunter was rad. Netflix cancel things too soon, now it’s ‘cancelled’ new people will watch it. Sometimes things don’t hit success straight away’.
Mindhunter is available to watch on Netflix.
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