The Alienist
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Director Jakob Verbruggen expertly conjures 19thcentury New York in this 10-part adaptation of Caleb Carr’s crime novel. A boy is found mutilated on Williamsburg Bridge, so the police employ the methods of Dr Laszlo Kreisler (Daniel Brühl) to build up a psychological profile of the killer. Aided by a newspaper illustrator (Luke Evans) and a dogged secretary (Dakota Fanning), Kreisler trawls through the atmospherically drawn city. TD