“If you don’t think there’s hope for the world, why bother going on?” Bella Ramsey asks in a critical moment in HBO’s wounding and poignantly brutal “The Last Of Us.” It’s a question the show and its central characters grapple with throughout. How to maintain faith in humanity, the courage to endure, and a belief in the meaning of existence itself, when simply existing is a nightmare and daily struggle. 

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If you’re not a gamer, on the surface, “The Last Of Us,” HBO’s adaptation of Naughty Dog’s famously acclaimed video game, sounds a lot like “The Walking Dead.” Insofar as that, found families cobbled together by survivors try to sustain life and subsist in a brutal and unforgiving zombie apocalypse that has decimated most of civilization.

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If at first you don’t succeed, try, try again. This could be the motto that filmmaker David Fincher first applied to his Netflix series, “Mindhunter,” employing similar dank aesthetics, obsessions with serial killers and analogous procedural-like inquiries, the series was almost a second take on the approach of 2007’s “Zodiac.” While that drama was criminally overlooked at the time, “Mindhunter,” a similarly fixated look at serial killers from a new FBI and psychological evaluation perspective, has been a great success so far.

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First, to clarify, Anna Torv is not Carrie Coon. The actress is perhaps best known for her role on the cult fave “Fringe,” but now she’s earning new attention for her terrific turn on David Fincher‘s excellent serial killer Netflix series, “Mindhunter.”

Torv plays the role of Wendy Carr, an academic who eventually works for the FBI alongside young, genius hotshot Holden Ford (Jonathan Groff), and his veteran partner Bill Tench (Holt McCallany).

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It’s no secret that some of the most talented filmmakers and actors are turning their attention to TV. So, let’s welcome back David Fincher, who after helping launch “House of Cards” in 2013, is now returning to Netflix with his series “Mindhunter,” a psychological thriller about serial killers. In other words, very on-brand Finch.

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While plot details are sparse, the project is based on “Mind Hunter: Inside the FBI’s Elite Serial Crime Unit,” the book by John Douglas and Mark Olshaker which chronicles Douglas’ time working as an FBI profiler tracking some of the most notorious and sadistic serial killers of our time.

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Watch: First Trailer For 'The Daughter' Starring Geoffrey Rush, Paul Schneider, Miranda Otto, And Sam Neill

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Venice Review: 'The Daughter' With Geoffrey Rush, Miranda Otto, Paul Schneider, Sam Neill & Newcomer Odessa Young

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